Abstract
the article deals with the self-study of master students and its types realized in various forms, methods, etc.The authors consider the ability to compile a bibliography as an extremely important quality of future teachers and scientific workers, and therefore they take it out for independent work as one of the types of selfstudy of master students.In addition, a great attention is drawn to the traditional division of references into main and additional academic materials, which according to the authors, is not entirely correct.In this connection, a number of arguments is given in favor of their non-distinction.