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Featured Database: MATHSCINET

Need current or historical mathematical sciences research or statistics? 

MATHSCINET Mathematical Reviews is a comprehensive database with over 3.6 million items including reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. 

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Key features and benefits  

  • Easy to search and includes ‘search by DOI’ 
  • Holds most of the historical and current mathematical sciences literature with over 125,000 items added each year 
  • Find historical bbibliographic data easily with retrodigitised articles dating back the early 1800s 
  • Reference lists are collected and matched internally from approximately 650 journals 
  • Citation data can be used to track the history and influence of research publications 
  • Link available to the Current Index to Statistics database which contains a bibliographic index of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. Developed by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Information 

Link to MATHSCINET

http://ezproxy.flinders.edu.au/login?url=https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/  

How do MATHSCINET decide what to add to their database? 

Take a look behind the scenes and watch this short video (2 min 52 seconds) MathSciNet via EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service  

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