MATHSCINET
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WHY SELECT THIS DATABASE?
MathSciNet provides access to reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information for
mathematical sciences.
SUBJECT COVERAGE
Mathematics and applied mathematics.
CONTENT
Journal articles, mathematical reviews (MRs),
books, conference proceedings and bibliographic
references
References from about 300 mathematical journals.
Bibliographic data from retro-digitised articles.
American Mathematical Society (AMS).
SOURCES
PRODUCER
DATES COVERED
UPDATES
LINKS TO FULL-TEXT
(ONLINE AND PRINT)
ACCESS
KEY SEARCH TIPS
CURRENT AWARENESS
Journal articles
Journal
andarticles
MRs 1940
and MRs
– current
1940Retro-digitised
– current Retro-digitised ar
articles date back to 1864
Regularly updated
Regularly
with
updated
new references
with new references
and
and MRs produced
MRs produced by expert reviewers.
Provides links to original journal articles available in
electronic format and full-text MRs.
MathSciNet is available freely on the Internet.
http://www.ams.org/msnhtml/quickstart.html Access
via University network. From OxLIP
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip select Physical &
Mathematical Sciences subject list.
Keyword searching:
 Use Publications search screen.
 Select Title or Anywhere fields.
 Use wildcard * to truncate words.
 Combine terms using Boolean Operators AND, OR
and NOT.
Subject searching:
 Use Publications search screen.
 Select MSC Primary/Secondary field.
 MSC classification listed under Other
Tools menu.
For author searching use Author index search screen.
For journal title search use Journal index search screen.
Current Publications, under Other Tools menu, offers a
search for books and articles reviewed or indexed in the
past six months.
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