8. Resources and Facilities

8.1. Libraries

College Library

The main source of borrowed books is your college library. College libraries generally purchase the books which appear in the reading lists for many of the Part C courses. In practice, college libraries also provide a good selection of the books listed as "further reading", and, indeed, a wider selection of background and alternative reading, some of which have gone out of print.

Many college libraries have a number of copies of key books and are usually responsive to requests for new purchases, but they need to be asked.

The Radcliffe Science Library (RSL)

Website: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/rsl

The Radcliffe Science Library holds mathematics books at graduate and research level. The library is the science part of the Bodleian Library and your University Card will facilitate access.

Information about all Bodleian libraries can be found at https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries, and information about non-Bodleian libraries is available from https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/other-libraries-at-oxford.

SOLO: Bodleian e-Library

Website: https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online) is the main search tool for Oxford's Libraries. Sign in with your Oxford SSO to access subscription e-resources, including electronic versions of many recommended lecture course textbooks.

Department of Statistics Library

Email: lib@stats.ox.ac.uk

Website: https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/statistics-library

Subjects covered include statistics, probability, operational research, mathematical genetics, and bioinformatics.

Department of Computer Science Library

Email: library@cs.ox.ac.uk

Subjects covered include formal methods, computer security, artificial intelligence, machine learning, automated verification, quantum computation, computational biology.