Subject Specialist
Picture: Rumbidzai Agnes Mazina

Rumbidzai Agnes Mazina
Assistant Librarian
Tel: Ext 251

Picture: Methembe Mhlophe

Methembe Mhlophe
Assistant Librarian
Tel: 263-84-2824720 Ext251

Introduction
This subject guide provides access to the library key resources to the field of Mathematics and Statistics. Explore the different resources and contact your librarian if you need any assistance.
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All Items by Source

Discovery Platforms

ACM Digital Library Some full text available

The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing the Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.


IWA Publishing Some full text availableopenURL
IWA Publishing is a leading international publisher on all aspects of water, wastewater and environment, spanning 15 industry-leading journals and a range of books, digitally available on IWAPOnline.
 

note: IWA Publishing  provides access to journals and books
Research4Life Restricted Resource Some full text available
The Research for Life Portal brings to you journals and e-books published by some of the world's reputable publishers. The portal provides access to all subjects and disciplines such as Social Sciences, Law, Arts and Humanities, Medicine, Commerce and Physical Sciences.
note: Contact the Library for off-campus login details
ScienceOpen Some full text available
ScienceOpen is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it. We provide context building services for publishers, to bring researchers closer to the content than ever before. Our advanced search and discovery functions, combined with post-publication peer review, recommendation, social sharing, and collection-building features make ScienceOpen the only research platform you’ll ever need.

E-Book Databases

De Gruyter Some full text availableopenURL
 De Gruyter Publishes over 1,500 books and 16,000 journal articles every year, across 30 subject areas. This includes more than 200 books and 6,000 articles in open access. It also offers some 80 databases and online reference works, covering an extremely broad spectrum of disciplines.
note: Multidisciplinary: Books, journal articles, databases and online reference works
Elgar Online Some full text availableopenURL
Edward Elgar Publishing is a leading independent academic and professional publisher with a strong focus on law, business and the social sciences. The Online Platform gives access to the following: eBooks, Journals, Encyclopaedias, Handbooks and References.
note: Multidisciplinary: e-books, journals, encyclopedias, handbooks and references.
Free Book Centre Some full text available
Contains links to thousands of free online technical books.
Google-books openURL
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across various disciplines, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Books helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks Library Some full text available
OAPEN Library is a central repository for hosting and disseminating peer reviewed open access (OA) books. 
Areas covered include: Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural science, Agriculture & Farming, Agronomy & Crop production, Business Management, Accounting, Marketing, Ecological science, Engineering, Mathematics, Earth sciences, Geography, Environment planning, Geology, Geophysics, Mining.
Open Research Library Some full text available
The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 14,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone.
OpenStax Some full text available

Peer-reviewed, openly licensed, 100% free, and backed by additional learning resources. Review OpenStax textbooks and decide if they are right for your course. Simple to adopt, free to use. We make it easy to improve student access to higher education. Areas covered include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Accounting, Economics


ProQuest Ebook Central Restricted Resource Some full text available
ProQuest Ebook Central is the ultimate Ebook Platform providing breadth and depth of authoritative content, courtesy of GSU Library
note: On Campus Only

Journals/Magazines

Academic Journals Some full text available
Academic Journals currently publishes 108 peer-reviewed open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.
CORE Some full text available

Offers seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community. Covers the fields of Mining, Engineering, Mathematics, Physical sciences, and Information Technology.


EconPapers Some full text available
EconPapers provides access to the world's largest collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles and software. Related subjects: Economics, Business management, Marketing, Accounting & Finance, Human Resource Management
Scientific Research Some full text available
Scientific Research is an academic publisher of open access journals. It also publishes academic books and conference proceedings. SCIRP currently has more than 200 open access journals in the areas of science, technology and medicine.

Almanacs & Yearbooks

ACM Digital Library Some full text available

The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing the Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.


Bibliographies

Directory of Open Access Books Some full text available
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
Directory of Open Access Journals Some full text available
DOAJ aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals. 

Dissertations

EThOs: e-thesis online service Some full text available
EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. It demonstrates the quality of UK research, and supports the UK Government’s open access principle that publications resulting from publicly-funded research should be made freely available for all researchers, providing opportunities for further research.
GSU Institutional Repository Some full text available
G-Space is an open access digital archive that collects, preserves, and distributes digital scholarly output produced, owned, and maintained by the Gwanda State University community. The repository consists of research articles, conference papers, theses and dissertations, and a variety of other digital assets.

Encyclopedias

CIA World Factbook openURL Resource contains images
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Encyclopedia.com Some full text availableopenURL Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
As the Internet's premier collection of online encyclopedias, Encyclopedia.com provides you reference entries from credible, published sources like Oxford University Press and Columbia Encyclopedia. At Encyclopedia.com, you get free access to over 300,000 reference entries from sources you can cite. Plus, more than 50,000 topic summaries feature related pictures, videos, topic summaries, and newspaper and magazine articles from around the world. Encyclopedia.com takes great care in constantly updating our content with the latest from our partners.

Handbooks & Guides

OpenSky Some full text available Resource contains images
OpenSky is the home for NCAR/UCAR research and historical materials as well as other collections of digital assets. The mission is to provide free and open access to the scientific output and other intellectual resources created at NCAR/UCAR for the advancement of the atmospheric and related sciences.