Pages

12 June 2019

MathSciNet : A bibliographic database for Mathematics and allied fields

MathSciNet is an online Bibliographic database for Mathematics, Statistics and Theoretical Computer Science created by American Mathematical Society in 1996. It contains electronic version of 'Mathematical Review'  and over 3.5 million items which includes citations, reviews, links to journals and full text articles. It is available in English, French and German. MathSciNet is an essential tool for researchers in Mathematics and allied fields. It can access through subscription  through researcher's affiliated Institution, normally individual subscription is not possible



You can do publication search from MathSciNet home page using different access point such as author, title, key word , Mathematical Review number, etc. and combination of these using Boolean operators. When you click to-down menu on the right side of the author you can see all the possible searches Author, Author/Related, Title, Review Text, Journal, Institution code, Series, MSC Primary/ Secondary, MSC Primary, Mathematical Review Number, Reviewer and Reference. You can narrow your search by year of publication, period of publication by giving in between two years. Again narrow your search by type of document - Books, Journals, proceedings or by all type of document. The result can chose either in PDF or HTML.


Search using any access point will lead to a page contain the bibliographic entries on the relevant topic. Each entry here shows MR number, the author of the document, the title of the document, the title of the journal in the case of journal articles, year of publication, the reviewer, etc. Click on the MR number you will get more information on selected item. An abstract or review of the item, link to the journal, link to the article itself are provided in this window. If the article having access to your institution you can directly go to the full text of the item.


The MathScieNet database is an excellent bibliographic database for Mathematical researchers and student to assist your literature search with more than 2,900,000 records, more than eight hundred thousand authors indexed from 1800 mathematical journals. Most of these peer reviewed journals are indexed cover to cover. For more information visit official website of MathScieNet at www.ams.org/mathscinet/

LIS Notes for Copmpetitive Examination - 37:Books and Authors in LIS

  A Manual of Classification for Librarians:  W C B Sayers Basic Statistics for Librarians:  J.D. Brown Canons of Classification : W...