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Fall Break Hours

Sunday, Nov. 22: CLOSED

Mon-Wed: 9 am to 5 pm

Thur-Fri: CLOSED

Saturday, Nov. 28: CLOSED

Sunday, Nov. 29: 2 pm to 5 pm

Fall Library Hours

Mon-Thur: 9 am to 8 pm

Friday: 9 am to 5 pm

Saturday: CLOSED

Sunday: 2 pm to 5 pm

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Find Books & Journals

Find Books

 

  • Course Reserves - Search the UIUC Library Course Reserves Catalog by course number or instructor's name.
  • Springerlink, CRCNetBase, and Safari - Links directly to providers of electronic books available as PDF downloads by chapter. Springer publishes many very good mathematics books; CRC Press publishes widely on all of the hard sciences, especially engineering and chemistry, and Safari specialises in Information Technology publications.
  • New Books - A searchable database of books received by the Mathematics Library since 1999. For information on where the new book shelf is located,new book loan periods, or how to recommend a purchase, see the New Books webpage.
  • AMS Books Online - A freely accessible database of research-level mathematics books available online as free PDFs, searchable by author or subject. This list is maintained by the American Mathematical Association.
  • Math Reference Books - A searchable database of the books kept in the mathematics reference collection, which is located at the right end of the circulation desk.
  • Uncatalogued Books - A searchable database of books owned by the Mathematics Library but not included in the UIUC Online Catalog. These titles are shelved in a special location, so please ask at the circulation desk for any you wish to see.

 

Nuts and Bolts of Finding Books

This section includes more useful information on finding books, including how books are divided among the the library's three floors, how the Dewey Decimal system works, where the reserve books are located, etc.

Find Journals

 

  • Electronic Journals - All electronic journals available to the UIUC community through the Online Research Resources.
  • Online Math Journals - A list of the Math journals available through the UIUC Library's Online Research Resources.
  • Springerlink, Elsevier, and Wiley Interscience - Links directly to journal publisher websites; off-campus users will be prompted to authenticate through the UIUC proxy server before searching.
  • Project Euclid - Full-text articles available from journals participating in the Open Archives Initiative.







 The Journal Rolodex and Flip File

If you can't find a journal when visiting the Mathematics  Library, the Rolodex and Flip File can help.