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{{Short description|Database of mathematical articles}}
{{Infobox Bibliographic Database
|title = MathSciNet
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|producer = [[American Mathematical Society]]
|country = [[United States|USA]]
|history = {{start date and age|1996|01}}<ref>{{Citation | title = NEW! MathSciNet from the American Mathematical Society | journal = Notices of the American Mathematical Society | volume = 43 | issue = 1 | pages = 2 | date = January 1996 | url = https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/199601/199601FullIssue.pdf }}</ref>
|languages = [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]]
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|cost = Subscription
|disciplines = [[Mathematics]]
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|temporal = Early 1800s – present
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|number = Over 2,900,000
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|web = {{URL|1=https://www.ams.org/mathscinet/index.html}}
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'''MathSciNet''' is a searchable online bibliographic database created by the [[American Mathematical Society]] in 1996.<ref name=reports/> It contains all of the contents of the journal ''[[Mathematical Reviews]]'' (MR) since 1940 along with an extensive author database, links to other MR entries, citations, full journal entries, and links to original articles.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUEOghB3MvM An Introduction to Mathematical Reviews] video</ref><ref name=matters>{{citation |title=Mathscinet Matters |journal=Notices of the AMS |volume=52 |issue=1 |page=62 |year=2005 |url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200501/comm-mathscinet.pdf }}</ref> It contains almost 3.6 million items and over 2.3 million links to original articles.<ref name=about>[https://www.ams.org/mathscinet/help/about.html?version=2 About MathSciNet]</ref>

Along with its parent publication ''Mathematical Reviews'', MathSciNet has become an essential tool for researchers in the mathematical sciences.<ref name=Charleston>{{cite journal | last =Fowler | first =Kristine K| title =Mathematics Sites Compared:Zentralblatt MATH Database and MathSciNet | journal =The Charleston Advisor | volume =1 | issue =3 | pages =18(1) to 18(11)| date =January 2000 | format = Free PDF download | url =http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/11299/42471/1/CharlestonAdvisorJan2000.pdf | issn =1525-4011}}</ref><ref name="Dominy">{{Citation |first1 = Margaret |last1=Dominy |first2=Jay |last2=Bhatt | url = http://www.istl.org/01-summer/databases2.html | title = MathSciNet: Mathematical Reviews on the Web, a Review | journal = Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship | issue=Summer 2001 | year = 2001 |doi=10.29173/istl1862 |s2cid=250571609 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Access to the database is by subscription only and is not generally available to individual researchers who are not affiliated with a larger subscribing institution.<ref name=about/>

For the first 40 years of its existence, traditional typesetting was used to produce the Mathematical Reviews journal. Starting in 1980 bibliographic information and the reviews themselves were produced in both print and electronic form. This formed the basis of the first purely electronic version called MathFile launched in 1982. Further enhancements were added over the next 18 years and the current version known as MathSciNet went online in 1996.<ref name=guidebook>{{Citation | title=MathSciNet Guidebook|publisher=American Mathematical Society|url=http://msc2010.org/MSC2010-CD/extras/guidebook.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223210854/http://msc2010.org/MSC2010-CD/extras/guidebook.pdf|archive-date=December 23, 2015}}</ref>

Unlike most other abstracting databases, MathSciNet takes care to uniquely identify authors.<ref name=reports>{{Citation | title=The Identification of Authors in the Mathematical Reviews Database | url=http://www.istl.org/01-summer/databases.html | last1=TePaske-King | first1=Bert |first2=Norman |last2=Richert | journal=Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship | date=Summer 2001 | issue=31 | doi=10.29173/istl1861 | s2cid=250568437 | doi-access=free }}</ref> Its author search allows the user to find publications associated with a given author record, even if multiple authors have exactly the same name or if the same person publishes under multiple names or name variants. ''Mathematical Reviews'' personnel will sometimes even contact authors to ensure that MathSciNet has correctly attributed their papers.

MathSciNet co-develops the [[Mathematics Subject Classification]] taxonomy with [[zbMATH]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Two-Math-Research-Resources-That-Are-Equal-to-the-Task-132145.asp | title=Two Math Research Resources that are Equal to the Task| date=June 18, 2019| access-date=October 8, 2019}}</ref>

== Scope ==
MathSciNet contains information on over 3 million articles and over eight hundred thousand authors indexed from 1800 mathematical journals, many of them abstracted "cover-to-cover".<ref>[https://www.ams.org/mathscinet/help/byTheNumbers.html MathSciNet by the Numbers]</ref><ref name="Dominy"/> A portion of those journals (about 450 in 2012) are designated as "Reference List Journals"; for MathSciNet entries of papers from these journals original reference lists are included.<ref>[https://www.ams.org/bookstore/pspdf/subrate.pdf MathSciNet, Mathematical Reviews on the Web], 2012 Subscription Rates catalogue, pp. 2-3; [[American Mathematical Society]]. Accessed August 20, 2019. </ref>

In addition, reviews or bibliographical information on selected articles is included from many [[engineering]], [[computer science]] and other [[Applied mathematics|applied]] journals abstracted by MathSciNet. The selection is done by the editors of ''Mathematical Reviews''.<ref name=Charleston/> The editors accept suggestions to cover additional journals, but do not reconsider missing articles for inclusion.<ref>[https://www.ams.org/mathscinet/help/FAQ.html MathSciNet FAQ]</ref><ref>[https://mymathlabanswer.com/ Mymathlab Answers]</ref>

==See also==
*[[All-Russian Mathematical Portal]]
*[[Zentralblatt MATH]]
*[[List of academic databases and search engines]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Wikidata property|P4955|P5867|P3285|P889}}
* [https://www.ams.org/mathscinet/help/about.html?version=2 Official website]

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[[Category:Bibliographic databases and indexes]]
[[Category:Mathematical databases]]
[[Category:Bibliographic databases in computer science]]
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