University of Maryland Mathematics Library Information
You are probably aware that mathematics books and journals are housed
in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Library (EPSL), located in the
Mathematics Building. The library reference staff are able and eager to serve
you. The head librarian for EPSL, as well as the main acquisitions
librarian for mathematics, is Zdravkovska, Nevenka (email:
nevenka@umd.edu,
phone: 5-9144). On issues of mathematics book and journal acquisitions,
another librarian you can talk to is Jim Miller
(email: jmiller2@umd.edu
phone: 5-9152). The library maintains a listing of
all
mathematics and statistics journals currently received by the EPSL
library.
Extra Library Services:
Course Reserves: It is possible to put books on reserve for courses.
Effective fall 1998,
reserves for 100- and 200-level courses are handled by the Reserve Desk
in the front, south wing of
the second floor of McKeldin Library, phone: 4-5678
(even if the materials involved are
normally shelved in EPSL). Reserves for 400-level and graduate-level
courses in MATH, MAPL, and STAT are normally handled at the EPSL
Circulation Desk, phone: 5-9140.
Interlibrary Loan: If you need a book or journal
that the library does not have, it is possible to get it by Interlibrary
Loan. For books this usually
takes about 2 weeks; for individual journal articles, it may be possible
to do everything electronically and get the article within days
as a PDF file by "Desktop Delivery". Go to
this www site
to order directly on the Web.
Electronic Reference Services:
Many library services are now available electronically through the
world-wide www. The university's
catalogue may be accessed here, or you can go to the
libraries home page for a
variety of reference services.
Most publishers and journals these days have world-wide www home pages.
In many cases, you can browse publisher's catalogues and the tables of
contents of recent journal issues. In some cases, the full text of the
journal is also available (sometimes only by subscription). We have
electronic subscriptions to a few conventional journals, such as
Transactions of the AMS,
and back issues of some journals (including the Transactions
and Annals of Mathematics) are also available through
JSTOR. There are
also many fully electronic mathematics and science journals. For more
information on electronic journals and reference services, see the
Electronic Journals Page.
Last but not least, the AMS has many reference services available through its
home page:
http://www.ams.org. Particularly useful are the
CML search
feature (to find addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of
mathematicians), the on-line
Mathematics Subject Classification Scheme
(to find the correct classification numbers for research papers), and
MathSciNet, the on-line version of Math Reviews. The
department has a subscription to the latter valid on all mathnet
machines. MathSciNet is
very handy for checking references, looking up reviews, and doing literature
searches.
The Math Serials Project:
Starting in January, 1997, the library canceled a large number of its
mathematics journal subscriptions, and in exchange, the savings are being
used to subsidize document delivery for math faculty. This is a pilot
project, designed to see if it is possible to break the
cycle of ever-increasing journal subscriptions prices in a "technologically
advanced" department. It was possible until recently
for math faculty to order journal
articles not in the EPSL library through a service called UnCover.
Now UnCover has been bought out by
Ingenta and it is possible
to use Ingenta for searching and document delivery for some
items. The library will subsidize up to $35 of the cost for journal
articles the library doesn't own for faculty. To get started,
go to the Ingenta
gateway page. For other items not available this way, please use
Interlibrary Loan
as described above.
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