Library: Computer Science: Learning at Bath

Find recommended reading

Library Lists
Library Lists helps you to find your recommended reading for each unit. It gives you easy access to e-books and links to the catalogue for print books. You can search by unit code or title. For example enter 'CH1' to find all year 1 units.
Managing Exam Stress Library List
Our Managing Exam Stress collection provides materials to help manage stress and anxiety as well as study skills tips to help you achieve success with your exams

Past exam papers

Past exam papers
The Library provides you with access to Semester 1 and Semester 2 exam papers from the last 5 years, to help with revision. If you can't find the paper you are looking for it may be because:
• The unit code has changed
• It has been restricted by your Department
Please be aware that older papers might not be relevant to current course content.

Submitting your thesis or dissertation

Taught postgraduate students

Deposit your dissertation online with the Library
You can submit your Masters (taught postgraduate) dissertations (MA, MSc, MBA, etc) in electronic format to the Library. Submission to the Library is optional.

Higher degree students including those completing a MPhil, PhD, DBA, EdD, EngD, DHealth, DClinPsy, MS or MD.

How to submit your thesis
Follow the link to find advice and procedures for higher degree students for submitting a print and online copy of your completed thesis to your department and the library.

Improve your research software skills

Research Software Learning Online
A guide to research software online courses from O'Reilly Learning. Courses cover Excel, Git and GitHub, LaTEX, MATLAB, Python, R and RS Studio, SAS, SPSS, Stata and SQL.

Systematic reviews

University of Bath Library Systematic Reviews Guide
Advice on doing a systematic review: how to formulate a question, write a protocol, search literature, manage references, select studies, assess evidence and write-up.

Computer Science e-book and reference collections

Bath Computer Science Technical Reports series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
A book series published by Springer since 1973, covering all areas of computer science

McGraw Hill AccessEngineering This link opens in a new window
Database providing a wealth of McGraw Hill’s premium textbooks, reference works, videos and data visualisation tools for engineering, sciences and business skills. Includes tools for real-world problem solving, case studies, industry codes and standards, plus course outlines for curriculum planning.

National Academies Press
The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine. A free registration is required to download the books in PDF format.

O'Reilly Learning This link opens in a new window
O'Reilly Learning is a collection of technical books from a number of publishers including Pearson and O'Reilly Media. The titles include many computing topics and programming and software guides. It also has a range of business and management titles. In addition to books, O'Reilly includes a large range of online training courses, on-demand learning materials and video resources.

Guide to using O'Reilly
Training guide from ProQuest. Contains webinar recordings and short videos on using the O'Reilly platform.
Oxford Reference Online
Collection of reference works published by Oxford University Press covering the Arts, English Language Reference, Modern Languages, Politics and Social Sciences, and Science.
SpringerLink (Computer Science)
Computer Science e-book collection from Springer

Access other libraries

Using other libraries - SCONUL Access
SCONUL Access allows University of Bath students and academic staff to visit over 170 higher education libraries in the UK and Republic of Ireland, either for reference purposes, or to borrow books.

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Access does not include IT facilities or online resources.

Get help with information, library, maths and academic skills

Mathematics Resources Centre (MASH)
MASH helps all students at the University with mathematics and statistics problems.
Help with using LaTeX
Access your Moodle VLE units
Academic writing skills
Courses and one-to-one sessions for all students are provided by the Skills Centre.