Like languages, the nature of the publication rather than its geographical origin determines its selection. Eastern European countries are well represented in the collection as well as Australia and Russia. Both the serials and the monographic collections are at an advanced research level. Societies publications are well represented. Seminars in mathematics and lecture notes from many institutions and societies are actively collected from various sources.
Periodicals represent a large part of the collection.
Proceedings of conferences and symposia are acquired regularly as are important doctoral dissertations. Indexes and abstracts are not being collected locally. Microforms are present in the collection because of the publication format of some societies and also to complete some journal collections. All these formats are now represented in the mathematics collection. Electronic journals released via the World Wide Web is a format that continues to grow in importance, and the mathematics collection includes this format.