Library: Mathematical Sciences: 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.

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.

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.

Useful reference materials, book and journal collections

Cambridge University Press e-book collection
CUP's Mathematics, Statistics & Probability and Computer Science e-book collections.
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Access to these collections ends on 31st August, but some titles will be purchased based on use and requests.
AMS Graduate Studies in Mathematics
AMS GSM are a series of books suitable as course books, self directed learning and background reading.
Springer e-book collection: Mathematics and Statistics
Search with the Springer e-book collection for mathematics and statistics (dating from 1929)

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.
SIAM This link opens in a new window
SIAM Locus - full text online for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics journals.

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.
Compositio Mathematica journal archive (1935-1996)
Free access to the Compositio Mathematica archive from 1935 - 1997. The Library's subscription to the journal provides up to date and ongoing access to content from 1997, and you can access that via the Library catalogue

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.

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Library and information skills (Moodle course)

The Library: for Mathematics students
Web search guide
A guide to using internet search engines, Google databases and alternative tools.