MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 100,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification.

Authors are uniquely identified, enabling a search for publications by individual author rather than by name string. Continuing in the tradition of the paper publication, Mathematical Reviews (MR), which was first published in 1940, expert reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of the current published literature; over 40,000 reviews are added to the database each year.

Extending the MR tradition, MathSciNet contains over 2 million items and over 1 million direct links to original articles. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to the early 1800s. Reference lists are collected and matched internally from over 400 journals, and citation data for journals, authors, articles and reviews is provided. This web of citations allows users to track the history and influence of research publications in the mathematical sciences.

The current version of MathSciNet is best when viewed with modern browsers. It should function as designed in Internet Explorer 5.5 and above, Firefox, Safari/312 and above, and Opera 8 and above. The core functionality is available in older browsers.

A detailed guide for MathSciNet is available (PDF).

Searching in MathSciNet

The home page has tabs for searching the five main areas of the database. These tabs are as follows.

Publications searches the review database and returns bibliographic data, reviews and (when available) linked reference lists for article and book listings.

Authors searches the author database and returns authors identified uniquely according to their publications as well as a listing of name variations.
To help identify an individual, there is now a sample publication visible by sliding the cursor over an icon. This publication is either a frequently cited or a recently published item.
Once an author is selected, one may view the author/related publications, do a publications search with the author automatically entered in the author search field, find coauthors or collaboration distances and make a link to all of an author's MathSciNet listings.

Journals searches the MR journal database and returns a journal or list of journals with links to bibliographic information, publisher websites, and issues listed in MathSciNet.

Author Citations returns up to 10 items ordered by the number of matched references in MathSciNet reference lists.

Journal Citations returns information about citations to the journal of interest based on matched reference lists from MathSciNet.

The four tabs on the Free Tools page are the following:

• Search MSC offers a search of the Mathematics Subject Classification scheme.
• Collaboration Distance finds a shortest publications-path between two authors.
• Current Journals lists those journals indexed in MathSciNet within the past six weeks. 
• Current Publications offers a search for books and articles reviewed or indexed within the past six months.

 You may access MathSciNet from anywhere with a valid APSU ID.