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| AMS MathSciNet | |
|---|---|
| Name | MathSciNet |
| Type | Bibliographic database |
| Owner | American Mathematical Society |
| Launch | 1996 (electronic) |
| Language | English |
AMS MathSciNet
AMS MathSciNet is an electronic bibliographic database and review service published by the American Mathematical Society that indexes mathematical literature including journals, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations. It serves researchers, librarians, and students by linking author profiles, citations, reviews, and bibliographic metadata across works associated with figures such as Paul Erdős, Henri Poincaré, Emmy Noether, André Weil, and Alan Turing. The service integrates curated reviews reminiscent of practices at institutions like the Royal Society, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Max Planck Society, and CNRS.
MathSciNet aggregates bibliographic records, reviews, and citations for mathematical publications produced globally, connecting entries to authors tied to organizations such as Princeton University, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, University of Tokyo, and Moscow State University. The platform cross-references journals like Annals of Mathematics, Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Inventiones Mathematicae, Acta Mathematica, and Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics while cataloging monographs published by presses including Springer, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Elsevier, and Birkhäuser. MathSciNet's author identification, citation linking, and classification align with schemes used by Zentralblatt MATH, INSPIRE-HEP, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar.
MathSciNet evolved from print predecessors associated with the American Mathematical Society and parallel efforts at institutions like University of Chicago Press and Duke University Press, following developments in electronic publishing concurrent with initiatives at arXiv, Project Euclid, and JSTOR. Early contributors and reviewers included mathematicians connected to École Normale Supérieure, Sorbonne University, ETH Zurich, Stanford University, and Columbia University, with editorial standards influenced by committees with members from National Science Foundation, Simons Foundation, and Clay Mathematics Institute. The transition to an online platform in the 1990s paralleled reforms at National Academies Press and adoption of digital indexing similar to systems at Library of Congress and British Library.
MathSciNet covers peer-reviewed literature across subfields represented by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and National University of Singapore. Its scope includes algebra, topology, analysis, geometry, number theory, and applied areas reflected in works by John Milnor, Michael Atiyah, Alexander Grothendieck, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Andrew Wiles. The database records citations to articles in venues like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Mathematische Annalen, and Duke Mathematical Journal, and indexes theses from institutions such as Princeton Theological Seminary and Moscow State University.
MathSciNet provides author profile pages, citation searches, and review texts composed by experts associated with academies like Royal Society of Edinburgh, Academia Europaea, Polish Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Russian Academy of Sciences. Functionalities mirror or complement tools at ORCID, ResearchGate, Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote by offering MR numbers, MathSciNet author identifiers, subject classification links to Mathematics Subject Classification, and search filters comparable to interfaces at PubMed, INSPIRE-HEP, and ScienceDirect. Advanced search options facilitate queries by author surnames shared with figures such as Eugene Wigner, Paul Dirac, John von Neumann, Kurt Gödel, and Niels Henrik Abel.
Access to MathSciNet is typically provided by academic libraries and research institutions including University of California, Yale University, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, and Australian National University through institutional subscriptions, with licensing arrangements negotiated by consortia like COUNTER, Jisc, CARL, CRKN, and LIBER. Individual subscriptions and site licenses interact with authentication systems such as Shibboleth, EZproxy, VPN, InCommon, and OpenAthens, and institutions often pair MathSciNet with resources like MathSciDoc, zbMATH Open, EuDML, and HathiTrust.
MathSciNet is widely cited for its authoritative reviews and bibliographic control by mathematicians at departments like Princeton University Department of Mathematics, Harvard Mathematics Department, Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics, ETH Zurich Department of Mathematics, and University of Bonn. It has influenced citation practices alongside services associated with Clarivate Analytics, Elsevier Scopus, Google Scholar Citations, arXiv, and CrossRef, and has been referenced in discussions involving awardees of the Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Wolf Prize, Crafoord Prize, and MacArthur Fellowship. Critiques and analyses have emerged in contexts involving library budgets at Ivy League universities, national research assessments such as those by Research Excellence Framework and NSF panels, and policy debates involving organizations like OECD and UNESCO.
Category:Bibliographic databases