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Mathematical Sciences

A guide to quality information for mathematical sciences

Free Indexes and Open Source Articles

These databases provide free quality journal articles for everyone, which means you will still have access once you leave university.

 
Maths Specific

ArXiv.org - Open access repository of articles in mathematics, statistics, qualitative biology, computing and physics.

Current Index to Statistics provided by the American Mathematical Society (AMS)

zBmath - open access database specifically for the mathematics

 

General 

CORE - CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides "a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature"

Directory of Open Access Journals - specifically targets journal articles

OpenDoar - sponsored by JISC this allows you to identify and  access repositories by country or you can use the advanced filter to search by discipline and types of resources required, including journal articles, patents, datasets and much more.  

 

Streaming Media

University Streaming Services

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

This provides access to free streaming tv, movies and radio from both the UK, and news channels and some tv from overseas. Educational and research worthy material goes back as far as the 1950's, though the majority of programmes are from the 1990's onwards. You can reserve programmes up to 2 weeks before they are air, save to My BoB and make clips to submit for your studies. 

Kanopy

Kanopy is a video streaming resource with coverage across a wide range of academic disciplines and content, including movies, documentaries and instructional videos.

 

External Talks

Gresham Lectures

Gresham College was founded in 1597 and has been providing free lectures within the City of London for over 400 years.

On its web pages you can find lots of free videos of past lectures and stream live lectures.  There are many mathematics videos, including some people you are very familiar with.

TED Talks   
  • TED is a non-profit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
  •  You can explore TED Talks related to the topic of mathematics and statistics or take a look at one of the Maths playlists.

Maths and Statistics Websites

Blogs:

Mathblogging.org

mscroggs.co.uk

Never Ending Books

Tony’s Maths Blog

The n-Category Cafe

Travels In a Mathematical World

Facebook:

Mathematics at the University of Greenwich

 

Professional Bodies:

British Society for the History of Mathematics

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

London Mathematical Society

Mathematical Association

The OR society

UK Mathematics Trust

 

Other Websites:

Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) This organisation has been archiving websites since 1996 and still does so to this day. There are books, media such as radio interviews with Richard Feynman, or the Buckminster Fuller talks or look for historic datasets from social media sites, NASA, the US government and much more.

MacTutor – History of Mathematics Archive

Newton Gateway to Mathematics

Paul's Online Maths Notes

Mathematics News Feed from Science Daily

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