Mathematics books and journals are housed in the STEM Library, located in the Mathematics Building. The library reference staff are able and eager to serve you. The head librarian for the STEM Library, as well as the main acquisitions librarian for mathematics, is Nevenka Zdravkovska (email:, phone: 5-9144).

Course Reserves

To put books on reserve for courses see this link.

Interlibrary Loan

If you need a book or journal that the library does not have, it is possible to get it by Interlibrary Loan. See this link for more information on interlibrary loan services.

Electronic Reference Services

Most library services are now available electronically. See the University Libraries home page.

Note: Electronic journals come and go quite frequently so it's very hard to keep a list which is completely up-to-date. We apologize for any inconvenience. Send comments to .

There are many other indices of electronic journals in mathematics. Here are some of the better ones:

• The AMS list
• Bibliothéque Mathématique et Informatique de Bordeaux - an index of about 280 current mathematics journals
• Berkeley's list of free electronic journals in math/stat
• the EMIS list of electronic journals in mathematics
• UMD Libraries list of web resources in mathematics. This list overlaps with the present one, though some things appear on one list and not on the other.

How to find a specific journal

The fastest way to find out if we have a specific journal, and if so, how to access it, is by going to https://umaryland.on.worldcat.org/atoztitles/search#journal

Abstracting and Indexing Journals

• MathSci Net - the on-line version of Mathematical Reviews.
• Zentralblatt MATH - the on-line version of Zentralblatt für Mathematik. We do not have a subscription, so you are limited to searches for only 3 items at a time.

Electronic Mathematics and Statistics Journals

• Annals of Mathematics - We have an electronic subscription to certain back issues through a library consortium called J-STOR. Volumes 1-12 (1884-1898) of Series 1 and Volumes 1-164 (1899-2006) of Series 2 are now available.
• American Journal of Mathematics - This of course is a conventional print journal, but we have a full-text electronic subscription. For back issues from the period 1878-2006, see this J-STOR location instead.
• American Mathematical Society journals
  • Electronic Journal of Representation Theory
  • Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. Both current and back issues (going back to 1891) available here.
  • Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. This of course is a conventional print journal, but we have a current full-text electronic subscription. We also have access to back issues from volumes 1-349 (1900-1997) through a library consortium called J-STOR.
  • Journal of the American Mathematical Society. This of course is a conventional print journal, but we have a current full-text electronic subscription. We also have access to certain back issues through a library consortium called J-STOR. Volumes 1-10 (1988-1997) are now available.
  • Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. This of course is a conventional print journal, but we have a current full-text electronic subscription. We also have access to certain back issues through a library consortium called J-STOR. Volumes 1-125 (1950-1997) are now available.
  • Mathematics of Computation. We have an electronic subscription to certain back issues through a library consortium called J-STOR. Volumes 14-66 (1960-1997), as well as Volumes 1-13 (1943-1959) of the predecessor journal, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, are now available.
  • Electronic Journal of Conformal Geometry and Dynamics
• SIAM journals. These of course are conventional print journals, but we have full-text electronic subscriptions to the following.
  • SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. We have an electronic subscription to certain back issues through a library consortium called J-STOR. Volumes 14-57 (1966-1997), as well as Volumes 1-13 (1953-1965) of the predecessor journal, Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,are now available. These back issues may also be found here.
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. Back issues for volumes 1-9 (1988-1996) may be found here.
  • SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis. Back issues for volumes 1-27 (1970-1996) may be found here.
  • SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. Back issues for volumes 1-17 (1980-1996) may be found here.
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. We have an electronic subscription to certain back issues through a library consortium called J-STOR. Volumes 3-34 (1966-1997), as well as Volumes 1-2 (1953-1965) of the predecessor journal, Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Series B, Numerical Analysis, are now available. These back issues may also be found here.
  • SIAM Journal on Optimization. Back issues for volumes 1-6 (1991-1996) may be found here.
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. Back issues for volumes 1-17 (1980-1996) may be found here.
  • SIAM Review. Back issues from volumes 1-39 (1959-1997) are also available here through the library consortium J-STOR. These back issues may also be found here.
  • Theory of Probability and Its Applications. Back issues for volumes 1-40 (1956-1995) may be found here.
• American Mathematical Monthly. Volumes 1-104 (1894-1997) are available here. For recent issues, see the MAA www site.
• Springer and Birkhäuser journals. These of course are conventional print journals, but we have full-text electronic subscriptions to the following.
  • Archiv der Mathematik.
  • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis.
  • Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. Back issues of this journal (from its inception in 1929 up to 2006) are available here.
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics.
  • Geometric and Functional Analysis.
  • Inventiones Mathematicae. Back issues of this journal are also available here.
  • Manuscripta Mathematica. Back issues of this journal are also available here.
  • Mathematische Annalen. Back issues of this journal are also available here.
  • Mathematische Zeitschrift. Back issues of this journal are also available here.
  • Numerische Mathematik.
  • Probability Theory and Related Fields.
  • Selecta Mathematica, New Series.
  • Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik.
• New: Back issues of Institute of Mathematical Statistics journals (probability and statistics). For the current issues, see below.
  • Annals of Applied Probability. Volumes 1-6 (1991-1996) are currently available.
  • Annals of Probability. Volumes 1-24 (1973-1996) are currently available. See also the predecessor journal, Annals of Mathematical Statistics.
  • Annals of Statistics. Volumes 1-24 (1973-1996) are currently available. See also the predecessor journal, Annals of Mathematical Statistics.
  • Annals of Mathematical Statistics. Predecessor journal to Annals of Probability and to Annals of Statistics. Volumes 1-43 (1930-1972) are available.
  • Statistical Science. Volumes 1-11 (1861-1996) are currently available.
• New:Back issues of Royal Statistical Society journals (probability and statistics).
  • Incorporated Statistician (Vols. 1-11, 1950-1961).
  • Statistician (Vols. 12-46, 1962-1997).
  • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Vols. 50-110, 1887-1947).
  • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Vols. 111-150, 1948-1987).
  • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Vols. 10-59, 1948-1997).
• New: DeGruyter journals. These of course are conventional print journals, but we have full-text electronic subscriptions to the following.
  • Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, also known as Crelle's Journal. Back issues of this journal, going all the way back to its founding in the 19th century, are available here.
  • Forum Mathematicum.
• Biometrika. Volumes 1-83 (1901-1996) are currently available.
• Institute of Physics journals. Mostly for physicists, but some may be of interest to mathematicians as well.
• Association for Symbolic Logicjournals:
  • The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. Full text of the journal is available at this website.
  • The Journal of Symbolic Logic. New: We now also have access to certain back issues through a library consortium called J-STOR. Volumes 1-62 (1936-1997) are now available.
• New: Indiana University Mathematics Journal. Full text of the journal is available at this website.
• New: Back issues of several French mathematics journals are now available here on the web in searchable form:
  • Annales de l'institut Fourier, 1949-2004
  • Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, 1864-2004
  • Comptes rendus l'Académie des sciences de Paris, 1835-1965
  • Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, 1836-1935
  • Journées équations aux dérivées partielles, 1974-2006
  • Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, 1959-2000
  • Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, 1872-2000
  • Mémoires de la Société Mathématique de France, 1964-2000
• New: Back issues of several Polish mathematics journals are now available here on the web in searchable form:
  • Acta Arithmetica, 1935-2016
  • Fundamenta Mathematicae, 1920-2016
  • Studia Mathematica, 1920-2016
• New: Many, if not most, important Japanese mathematics journals are now available here or else here on the web in searchable form:
  • Japanese Journal of Mathematics, 1975-2005
  • Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan, 1948-2018
  • Hiroshima Mathematical Journal, 1961-2018
  • Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A, Mathematical Sciences, Series A, Mathematical Sciences, 1912-2018
  • Kodai Mathematical Journal, 1978-2018
  • Kyoto Journal of Mathematics, 1950-2018
  • Publications of RIMS, Kyoto, 1965-2013
  • Nagoya Mathematical Journal, 1950-2014
  • Tohoku Mathematical Journal, First Series, 1911-1943
  • Tohoku Mathematical Journal, Second Series, 1949-2018
• New: Back issues of several Swiss mathematics journals are now available here on the web in searchable form:
  • Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 1929-2018
  • Elemente der Mathematik, 1946-2018
  • L'enseignement Mathématique, 1899-2017
• New: Back issues of K-Theory are now available through Portico.
• Miscellaneous electronic journals in mathematics indexed by the UMCP libraries. These mostly duplicate other items on this www site, but new items may be added from time to time.

E-Library

Most of the above resources are only available from machines in the mathematics department. In most cases, you can access them remotely via researchport, or else you can go directly to:

• MathSciNet
• JSTOR

Free Electronic Journals

• Documenta Mathematica, published by the German mathematical society. Special bonus: There is a special volume with the proceedings of the 1998 ICM in Berlin.
• Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society. This replaces the former research announcements section of the AMS Bulletin.
• Notices of the American Mathematical Society. The electronic version is free to everyone.
• Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. The electronic version is free to everyone.
• The EMIS Library of Mathematics Journals
• Geometry and Topology
• Algebraic and Geometric Topology
• New York Journal of Mathematics
• Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux
• Mathematical Physics Electronic Journal
• Theory and Applications of Categories
• Topology Proceedings
• Homology, Homotopy and Applications
• Ulam Quarterly Journal
• Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal
• Journal of High Energy Physics

Home Pages of Conventional Mathematics and Statistics Journals

This list includes the home pages of many conventional print journals, usually indexed by publisher. In most cases, you can access tables of contents and submission instructions for authors. In some cases, abstracts or even full text are also available.

• AMS Journals
• Annals of Mathematics
• Academic Press Journals
• BIT Numerical Mathematics
• Canadian Mathematical Society Journals
• Duke Mathematical Journal
• International Mathematics Research Notices. This was originally a spin-off of the Duke Mathematical Journal but is now independent.
• L'Enseignement Mathématique. For tables of contents, try here.
• MAA Journals
• French mathematics journals published by Gauthier-Villars. These include the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des sciences - Série I - Mathématique, theAnnales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, and others.
• International Press journals: Communications in Analysis and Geometry, Mathematical Research Letters, Methods and Applications of Analysis, The Asian Journal of Mathematics, Journal of Differential Geometry.
• Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. Starting with volume 49 (1999), full text of the journal is available at this website.
• Mathematische Nachrichten
• Michigan Mathematical Journal
• Nagoya Mathematical Journal
• Houston Journal of Mathematics
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Full text of back issues from volumes 1-95, 1915-1998, is available here.
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics Journals (Probability and Statistics)
• Other Probability and Statistics journals accessable through the IMS.
• Journals published by the French Mathematical Society (SMF) and French Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SMAI)
• Journals published by the Mittag-Leffler Institute: Acta Mathematica and Arkiv för matematik
• Journals published by De Gruyter: Forum Mathematicum, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, and Journal of Group Theory
• Journals of the Australian Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Research Letters
• Pacific Journal of Mathematics.
• SIAM Journals
• Elsevier Journals. You can also access those Elsevier journals to which the UM libraries have a subscription via Science Direct from campus computers or (if you are off campus) through the university research port.
• London Mathematical Society Journals
• Journals of the Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, including Fundamenta Mathematicae, Studia Mathematica, Annales Polonici Mathematici, and Colloquium Mathematicum.
• Springer and Birkhäuser Journals
• Illinois Journal of Mathematics
• Israel Journal of Mathematics
• Journal d'Analyse Mathématique
• Cambridge University Press Journals, including some journals of the London Mathematical Society
• Oxford University Press Journals, including some journals of the IMA and London Mathematical Society
• Compositio Mathematica. Back issues of this journal, going back to 1935, may be found here.
• Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
• Glasnik Matematicki
• Journal of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems
• Mathematica Scandinavica
• VSP journals: Acta Mathematica Sinica, Discrete Mathematics and Applications, East-West Journal of Numerical Mathematics, Journal of Computational Mathematics, Journal of Inverse and Ill-Posed Problems, Random Operators and Stochastic Equations, and Russian Journal of Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modelling.
• ZAMM, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik.
• other Wiley/Interscience journals in mathematics and statistics.

Mathematics Preprint Servers

These are extremely useful, but you are cautioned that most preprint servers will accept contributions from anyone, and are not refereed.

• Math "arXiv" eprint server
• "Front End" located at UC Davis for the Math "arXiv" eprint server
• K-theory Preprint Archives
• MPRESS Preprint Index. A search engine for many other mathematics preprint servers, including the arXiv and several European sites.

Subject-Specific Resources in Mathematics

• Directory of Subject-Specific Resources in Mathematics (AMS)
• Dynamical Systems Homepage
• Math Archives by Topic (Univ. of Tennessee)
• Number Theory Web
• Operator Algebra Resources
• Statistics Resources Page (UCLA)
• The Topology Atlas

General Science Journals

• Science
• Science Now, based on the news sections of Science.
• Nature

General Reference Services

• Encyclopedia Britannica, on-line version. UMCP has a subscription. Includes an all-purpose dictionary.
• Oxford English Dictionary, on-line version. UMCP has a subscription.
• More on-line English dictionaries.
• OCLC Union List of Periodicals. Enables you to find out what libraries subscribe to a given periodical.
• Web of Science (AKA Science Citation Index), on-line version. UMCP has a subscription.
• Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations", on-line version. UMCP has a subscription.

Other Library Services

• New: The Cornell Digital Math Library. Electronic versions of old mathematics books in the public domain, including many classics such as Descartes, Hilbert, Poincaré, Weierstrass, etc.
• New: The EMS Library of Mathematical Classics. Contains electronic versions of the collected works of Hamilton and Riemann.
• New: The collected works of Gauss.
• New: The collected works of Euler.
• New: The collected works of Ramanujan.
• New: The critical edition of the collected works of Leibniz (not all in digital form yet).
• New: The collected works of Stefan Banach.
• New: The EMS Library of Mathematical Monographs. Contains electronic versions of some out-of-print or hard-to-get books.
• New: The EMS Library of Conference Proceedings.
• New: The AMS index to online books.
• New: The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions. A handbook of classical special functions, under development. The chapter on Airy functions, now available, was written by our own Frank Olver.
• The Avron Douglis Library.
• The UMCP Libraries home page.
• Campus IT FAQs. Helpful for computer or software questions.
• Project Euclid, a Duke-Cornell initiative for streamlining journal production in mathematics.
• SGA Online, a web-based version of SGA, Séminaire de Géometrie Algébrique, a key reference for modern algebraic geometry, homological algebra, and category theory. Also includes Grothendieck's EGA, Éléments de Géometrie Algébrique.

Mathematical Societies

The American Mathematical Society (AMS)

 

The AMS Combined Membership List: online directory of mathematicians

The AMS Math-Sci Net: Math Reviews on line. Available only from math department computers. From home, access this through the eLibrary.

Guide for electronic submissions to Math Reviews

Calendar of mathematics meetings all over the world

 

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

Welcome to the Research Resources section of the Mathematics Department site. This area includes information on electronic research resources and libraries.

• Electronic journal information
• Library information
• Information on the crisis in scientific publishing
• Electronic reference library (remote authenticated access if you are not on campus):
  • MathSciNet
  • JSTOR

RITs

Among the department seminars are a number of student seminars and RITs ("Research Interaction Teams") designed specifically for students.  An index of these, along with more information, may be found here.