SMS MSc Student Handbook 2020/2021 (Sep 2020 Start)

21. Computing and Library Facilities

School of Mathematical Sciences facilities

SMS provides a shared PGT PC Lab (room MB-302 Third Floor Mathematical Sciences Building) for MSc and MSci students, with computer facilities for project work, writing dissertations, online research and online access to the library catalogue, e-journals and e-books. There is also a laser printer. Please note that this is a "quiet" room for individual study and for taught PC Lab sessions, and is not a social space, and students are asked to respect this at all times.

There are also four Bloomberg terminals available for use by students, which are identifiable by the coloured keyboard which accompanies each terminal. Bloomberg is the standard software used in the finance industry for the provision and analysis of financial market data and news, and competence in the use of such terminals may be of considerable benefit to your professional profile / CV.

Fair Usage of the Maths PGT PC Lab (MB-302)

Use of MB-302 is limited only to MSc and MSci students in the School of Mathematical Sciences. No other students or guests are permitted into this room. No food, drink, alcohol or prohibited items may be taken into this room and no disturbance may be caused to other students. Any student found in breach of this fair use policy will be subject to a disciplinary procedure which may lead to withdrawal of rights and even expulsion from the course / Queen Mary.

Facilities available to students on the MSc in Mathematical Finance programme

Students studying on the Mathematical Finance programme are encouraged to make use of the facilities provided by the School of Economics and Finance (SEF). SEF have specialist software available to aid your studies, such as Datastream, which provides financial data (current and historical) and time series data, as well as standard econometrics software including Eviews, PCGive, Microfit and Matlab. SEF also provide full subscription access to a wide variety of financial databases such as CRSP and Bankscope and have access to 12 dedicated Bloomberg terminals. If you wish to use the software or terminals you can do so in the SEF offices in the Graduate Centre. Members of the SEF IT Team are available to help you if you encounter any problems whilst accessing the software or terminals.

Facilities available to students on the Financial Computing MSc programmes

Students studying on the Financial Computing programmes are encouraged to make use of the facilities provided by the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). EECS have three main areas for student computing:

The Informatics Teaching Laboratory (ITL);
EECS MSc Lab (on the ground floor of the Engineering building, room G52);
Computers in the Electronics Laboratory (second floor Engineering building) that are mainly for hardware-associated laboratory work.

You can access information on status of labs in the ITL here.

an introduction from Library Services

Library Services at Queen Mary provide the study environments, resources and staff to support your learning during your time at the university.

For 2020 we are providing as many ebooks and other eresources as we can, so you can gain access to online readings from wherever you are. Also we have a team answering emails at library@qmul.ac.uk who we will help you use the eresources and answer any questions you may have. For subject support please see the Library Subject Guides available from the Library Website. For support with finding, using and evaluating information and information about the academic skills services, please see our Find it! Use it! Reference it! module on QMPlus

[https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=6819]

You will find more detailed information for new students on the library’s welcome page.

The online services are backed up by some socially distanced service points who will provide drop-in help. We will be offering socially distanced study space in our 3 libraries at Mile End, Whitechapel and West Smtihfield, each with a character and ambience of their own. As this is such an unusual year, we will be offering some click and collect borrowing services, and some self-service borrowing. You will find up to date details of the library services for the new academic year on the library website [https://www.library.qmul.ac.uk/]

Archives & Special Collections

Archives & Special Collections manage institutional and personal archives dating from the 18th Century to the present day, as well as collections of rare or special materials.

Digital Archives are accessible via our website. To get started exploring the collections, try searching the archives catalogue: http://archives-catalogue.library.qmul.ac.uk/CalmView/default.aspx.

Visits to the Archives Reading Room on the 2nd floor, Mile End Library, are by appointment in advance; these appointments are limited for the start of 2020/21 due to social distancing in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, but this will be reviewed and updated during the course of the year. The Archives Reading Room provides silent individual study space in which to access and research using these collections. For more information, see the Archives website: http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk/archives.

Other libraries

As a college of the federal University of London, Queen Mary students have access and borrowing rights at Senate House Library: https://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/

Contacts

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Telephone: 020 7882 8800

Email: library@qmul.ac.uk

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