This page is primarily intended to give additional support for research staff/postgraduate on

The University Library's Maths Subject Information.

• University library book recommendation form (only accessible from Department machines)
• If you need to get a book or article not available in Durham you should use the Document Delivery Service (DDS). If you ask in the Maths Office, they will provide stickers.
• Most recent acquisitions by (and recommendations to) the University library.
• Electronic Journals: University Library/Department list/MathematicsWeb/JSTOR.

  Note: Only print out articles you are interested in (or put another way) never print complete issues.
  Never reveal your ATHENS password.
  Never exploit journals for commercial purposes.

• Searching: MathSciNet - mathematical reviews / Web of Science (a replacement for BIDS)

• Publishers:

  [Academic Press, Addison-Wesley, Birkhäuser, Brooks/Cole, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier Science, International Thomson Publishing , Macmillan Computer Publishing, MCB University Press, O'Reilly, Oxford University Press, A. K. Peters, Plenum Publishing, Prentice Hall, SIAM, Springer, Wiley, World Scientific Publishers ]

• Publishers of journals (not necessarily on WWW)

  [Featured Reviews in MR , CWI Amsterdam , MSRI Book Series]

`The impious maintain that nonsense is normal in the Library and that the reasonable is an almost miraculous exception ... In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations ... but not a single example of absolute nonsense.' Jorges Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

Page administrator: Wilhelm Klingenberg. (email wilhelm.klingenberg@durham.ac.uk).

Last revised 1/10/07.