Mathematical Resources
Your first port of call will often be in the form of
electronic resources. One of the most important of these is mathscinet.
The Mathematics
ArXiv is the most important source of
preprints on the web. This is part of a larger collection of preprints, including physics and computer science.
Another useful source of computer science preprints is the Electronic Colloquium on
Computational Complexity.
It's also sometimes of interest to look at conference proceedings, for instance
Lecture Notes in
Computer Science.
For general news on combinatorics
events in Europe, I recommend subscribing to DMANET.
Journals
I used
to spend a lot of time in libraries, browsing through journals. Probably
much of it was a waste of time, but I did read a lot of abstracts, and I still
like to know what the physical version of a journal is like. It's
interesting, too, to browse through new journal issues, and to get some sense of
what sort of material a journal carries through the years. All of this is
used to be best done by visiting the library in person. However, it also
takes a lot of time, and you can now look through journals, and much of the
time get papers, without leaving your desk (or even getting out of bed, if you
have a laptop and a wireless network).
Some journals now have RSS feeds,
but this is only gradually becoming standard. Inside Oxford, there is a list of mathematics
journals produced by the Whitehead library; the full Oxford
e-collection is indexed here.
There are loads of
journals around, but the main combinatorics journals that I look at regularly are:
Combinatorica
Combinatorics,
Probability and Computing
Discrete
Applied Mathematics
Discrete
Mathematics
Electronic Journal of
Combinatorics
European
Journal of Combinatorics
Graphs
and Combinatorics
Journal
of Combinatorial Theory, Series A (commonly known as JCTA)
Journal
of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (or JCTB)
Journal of Graph
Theory
Random Structures
and Algorithms
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Other
interesting journals include:
Annals
of Combinatorics
Computational
Geometry
Discrete
and Computational Geometry
Discrete Maths
and Theoretical Computer Science
Discrete
Optimization
Information and Computation
Information
Processing Letters
Internet
Mathematics
Journal
of the ACM
Journal
of Computer and System Sciences
Journal
of Discrete Algorithms
Networks
OR Letters
Order
Probability
Theory and Related Fields
SIAM Journal on
Computing
SIAM
Review
Theoretical Computer Science
The ACM (Association for
Computing Machinery) also has SODA
proceedings and SIGACT.
And
here are some journals that are occasionally interesting (or that I want to
remind myself about for some reason):
Complexity
Contributions
to Discrete Mathematics
Electronic
Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Journal
of Combinatorial Optimization
Journal
of Interconnection Networks
Linear Algebra and
its Applications
Mathematics of
Computation
Periodica Mathematica Hungarica