Guide to Shelfmarks
Journals
Electronic Books
Online Bibliographical Databases
Other Useful Library Resources
Useful Web Links

 Guide to Shelfmarks

The main collections of books can be found on Levels 4 and 5 of the Library.

Books in heavy demand are placed in the Short Loan Collection on Level 1. The Short Loan Collection contains 1 day loan books; 7 day loan books are shelved with the ordinary loan books on the upper levels.

Use the Library catalogue to find the exact shelfmark and location for each book. If you are searching for books on a particular topic, use a keyword search.

Mathematics books are shelved on Level 5 at 51

 Journals

Printed Journals

These are kept in the library. Search by the journal title on the Library Catalogue to find out where a journal is shelved. Some current issues are shelved on Level 1.

Electronic Journals

The ejournals@surrey portal links to the full-text electronic journals available from the University of Surrey. You can view the full-text articles on screen and save, email, print them, create alerts for searches etc. Collections of Science e-journals are available at these sites (follow links from the ejournals@surrey portal)

• American Mathematical Society journals (We have full text access to a few of those)
• SpringerLink mathematics journals Springer is a major publisher of mathematics journals with over 100 titles. We also have access to Lecture Notes on Mathematics.

 Electronic Books

You can use the Electronic Books page to access eBooks on Mathematics. The most useful collections for Mathematics textbooks will be MathsNetbase.

For dictionaries try Credo Reference.

There are also links from some titles on the Library catalogue to electronic versions of the text - look for "e-link"

 Online Bibliographical Databases

Online databases are the best way to search by topic for journal articles. Some databases will link to the full text of articles, others will only supply bibliographic details. Key databases for Mathematics are:

MathSciNet is a subscription-based database produced by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). More than two million publications dating back to the early 1800s.

ISI Web of Knowledge a subscription-based Web of Science database which is a multidisciplinary index to the scientific journal literature including mathematics.

INSPEC a database covering electronics, computer science, physics and electrical, control, production and mechanical engineering. It contains much of interest to mathematicians. INSPEC is provided by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Compendex is a subscription-based, engineering database provided as part of Engineering Village with much of interest to mathematicians. It contains details of over 11 million publications since 1970.

 Other Useful Library Resources

Newspapers

The Library takes certain daily British broadsheet newspapers. Recent copies are on Level 1 of the Library and older copies are kept on Level 2.

British newspapers and a huge variety of international papers can also be read electronically on Nexis.

Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985: The complete digital edition of The Times (London) capturing the entire newspaper, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

Also of interest may be The Times (1910-1999) and The Sunday Times (1970-1999) which are held on microform on Level 2 of the Library.

Statistics

The Library's printed statistics collection is on Level 2. The collection includes statistics from the British Government and international organisations. There are two sequences in the statistics collection, books/monographs all with the shelfmark beginning 31 and also statistical periodicals shelved in A-Z order by title.

Check StatnetBase The full text of 70 books in the field of statistics

Some useful websites are:

National Statistics - The site for the UK's official statistics, it includes information on the economy, population, and society.

ESDS International This is a database only available by using your Athens username and password. ESDS International provides access to a range of datasets including macro data from OECD, IMF, World Bank and IEA.

Eurostat -The EU Statistical Office. It is possible to view structural, long, and short term indicators free of charge as well as the online version of Statistics in Focus which provides information on key statistical surveys.

EDC

The EDC collection is on Level 2 of the Library and contains a variety of materials produced by the Official Publications Office and other agencies and institutions of the EU

Standards and  Patents

The Standards and Patents page tells you which sets of standards are available for use in the Library and on the web and where to find them. The University Library subscribes to the complete set of British Standards Online.

The library does not keep copies of patents. You can search for worldwide patents via the UK Patent Office web site but you cannot obtain the full text online. Once you have identified a patent you want, you can obtain a copy through the InterLibrary Loan service.

Exam Papers

The Exam Papers Database offers past papers from 1998.

Guides to Referencing

Look at the help pages provided by the University of Surrey.

Further guides are available from:

University of Birmingham and Bournemouth University (especially useful for citing electronic references.)

Also look at Pears, R. A and Shields, G. (2010) Cite them right: the essential referencing guide. 8th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. which is available in the Library at 808.02 PEA

 Useful Web Links

Intute  A gateway to subject catalogues (including Mathematics) with links to high quality Internet sites, selected and described by specialists from within British academia.

The Virtual Training Suite offers free tutorials on Internet research skills to help with your university course.

Online Textbooks

Online mathematics textbooks is a list of textbooks available online compiled by George Cain of the School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology.

AMS books online is a collection of free, online textbooks from the American Mathematical Society.

Electronic Library of Mathematics (ELibM): mathematical monographs and lecture notes is a repository of free, online mathematics textbooks hosted by the European Mathematical Society.

Here are examples of individual textbooks:

Algebraic topology is the full text of a book by Allen Hatcher of the Department of Mathematics, Cornell University.

Calculus by Gilbert Strang of Massachusetts Institute of Technology covers single variable and multivariable calculus.

StatSoft electronic statistics textbook was originally created for the Web and is now also available in print format.

Reference Works

Wolfram MathWorld is an interactive online mathematics encyclopaedia.

TCAEP formerly known as The Constants and Equations Pages provides reference data in mathematics, astronomy and general science.

MacTutor history of mathematics archive provides short essays on topics in mathematics history together with biographies of many famous mathematicians.

Course Materials

MIT OpenCourseWare: mathematics publishes free lecture notes, exam questions and educational resources from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mathematics support materials is a collection of resources from the University of Plymouth designed for students on foundation and first year degree courses which can be used online or downloaded.

Mathcentre offers mathematics support materials for students and staff providing revision in pre-university level mathematics.

MAGIC runs postgraduate level mathematics courses using Access Grid videoconferencing technology. Course lecture notes are available online.

Maths, Stats & OR Network one of the Higher Education Academy subject centres, provides resources and support for lecturers.

Merlot mathematics is a portal providing a collection of learning materials and guidance on teaching mathematics.

Preprints & Eprints

Directory of mathematics preprint and e-print servers is a listing of umbrella servers, subject servers and institutional servers compiled by the American Mathematical Society.

arXiv.org: mathematics based at Cornell University, this resource is an electronic archive and distribution server for research papers in mathematics and related disciplines.

Open Access Journals

Increasingly, there are open access initiatives whereby journal content is made freely available to all via the Internet.

Electronic Library of Mathematics (ELibM): mathematical journals is an open access repository.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): mathematics and statistics lists free, online journals.

Other Library Catalogues

COPAC is a union catalogue, giving free access to the merged online catalogues of many of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland plus the British Library.

British Library catalogues on the web The British Library is the national library of the UK and receives a copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland. Their catalogues list over 150 million items held in the collections - most of which can be ordered by inter-library loan from your local library.

Other libraries' web catalogues A list of other library catalogues on the Internet, including the national libraries of other countries.

Specialist Internet Tools

Mathematics on the Web is a guide from the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

MathGuide is a German guide (in English) to scholarly Internet resources in mathematics.

Math Forum Internet mathematics library is another American site.

Mathematics WWW virtual library is a part of the oldest catalogue of websites started by Tim Berners-Lee.

Professional Organisations

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is the UK's professional society for mathematicians.

London Mathematical Society is an UK learned society.

Royal Statistical Society provides professional support to statisticians and users of statistics worldwide.

American Mathematical Society is the US professional society for mathematicians, with members from the US and worldwide.

Conferences & Events

Allconferences.com: mathematics provides listings of mathematics conferences and events.

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications: conference diary hosts a number of conferences.

Social Media

Blogs

Good math, bad math is  blog by Mark Chu-Carroll which aims to emphasise good mathematics and to highlight bad and incorrect applications of mathematics.

Wikis

The tangent bundle: mathematics project is intended as a repository of ideas in mathematics.

Widgets

Widgetbox: mathematics provides a collection of mathematical widgets.

Message boards

Nature network provides a mathematics discussion forum.

Podcasts

Plus podcasts A service from the Plus magazine containing mathematics news, interviews and discussions.

Email discussion lists

JISCmail is the national academic mailing service for the UK. Check its mathematics and statistics section for relevant lists. It is possible to search descriptions of lists and archived messages before you decide to sign up.

News Media

News websites

ScienceDaily: mathematics news is the mathematics section of an online news service.

TechXtra: OneStep industry news provides a search facility for newsfeeds in mathematics, engineering and computing.

Newspapers

Some newspapers have mathematics sections on their Web pages:

Guardian: mathematics 

New York Times: mathematics

Radio

More or less is a broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and examines how statistics and numbers are used by the government, media and academics to communicate with the general public.