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Preliminary Data Item Prelim
Preliminary Data items are created from bibliographic data received directly from publishers or from data created at Mathematical Reviews as materials arrive. These potential MathSciNet items provide early information about new papers in mathematics while full processing, including author authority work and editorial decisions, is ongoing. Preliminary Data items are marked with Prelim. When processing is completed, Prelim is removed from those items that are selected for inclusion in the Mathematical Reviews Database.Mathematical Reviews appreciates publisher delivery of this data, which makes these additional MathSciNet listings possible. Publishers interested in participating in the Preliminary Data program are invited to contact mr-librarian@ams.org.
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Database Expansion Item Expansion
These items represent an expansion of the scope of coverage by the Mathematical Reviews Database. Database Expansion items are not classified and do not have reviews. In every other respect they are treated just like all other items in the Mathematical Reviews Database. In particular, the authors are identified and the items have journal linking and original item linking (when available). These items can be identified in the bibliographic information by the text Database Expansion Item, which is presented at the bottom of the bibliographic data.
Since 2001 Database Expansion items have included journal publications in the areas that might be termed Applied Statistics. The inclusion of these items was in response to many requests from librarians and others for the kind of information that formerly was contained in the CIS subfile of MathSci tape distributions. Beginning in 2003, Database Expansion treatment was extended and applied to certain items in Computer Science not previously considered to be within the scope of the MR Database.Example:
MR2505210 Expansion
Swartz, Tim B.
A new handicapping system for golf. (English summary)
J. Quant. Anal. Sports 5 (2009), no. 2, Art. 9, 22 pp.DML Item DML
These items are associated with the various digitization projects around the world characterized as the World Digital Mathematics Library (WDML). Mathematics Digitization projects are invited to contribute their bibliographic data to Mathematical Reviews. As the various sites contribute their bibliographic data to Mathematical Reviews, new MathSciNet items will be created for these items. These new items are searchable by title, author name, journal name, and publication year (and other journal-specific information) and provide links to the digitized original material. The majority of these items have publication date before 1940, but there can also be items after 1940. For example, some digitization sites include front matter material for journal issues, such as tables of contents, that would not have been indexed by Mathematical Reviews in the past. In order to expedite the inclusion of this new material as it becomes available, these items will not have author links initially. Thus, they will not be included in the list of items produced in clicking on an author name link, e.g. in another item or in an Author Database Search. However, the author name is searchable as a string in the Author or Author/Related field in Full and Basic Search. Mathematical Reviews hopes to complete full author authority work on these items over time.Because all the bibliographic data will come from the digitization site, these items will not be classified. Each DML Item will show the source of the contributed bibliographic data. Listings of DML projects can be found at http://digreg.mathguide.de/info/wdml.html and http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~rehmann/DML/dml_links.html.
Example:
MR1504934 DML
Haag, J.
Sur le calcul de certaines déformations élastiques, avec application au spirale de montre. (French)
Bull. Soc. Math. France 56 (1928), 240--273.
Source: Project NumdamDML Items may be hidden from search results by clicking No under Display DML Items on the Preferences page.
These items represent Ph.D. theses whose bibliographic data have been contributed by an external source. They are not included in the list of items produced by clicking on the author name and are not classified. However, they do appear in an Author or Author/related Database Search. Links to the thesis and its source are provided.
Example:
MR2713010 Thesis
Flenner, Joseph Doyle
The relative structure of henselian valued fields.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley. 2008. 56 pp. ISBN: 978-1109-09817-4
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Example: Novikova, N. M.; Pospelova, I. I.; Semovskaya, A. S.
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for authors of most
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Example: 1-CWR
Clicking on this link returns:
Department of Mathematics
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH 44106
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Information
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German.
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Example: Density functions. (Russian. English, Russian, Ukrainian summary)
Journal
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Click on a journal name to retrieve bibliographic information about that particular journal, including full name, issues per year, publisher, and ISSN number. In addition, links to lists of indexed items in issues of that particular journal are presented. (See MathSciNet Field Help for additional information about journal names.)
Example: Notices Amer. Math. Soc.
Volume, Publication
Year, Issue
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The issue number links to a headline list of indexed items from that
issue. If
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Example: 40 (2000), no. 10, 1451--1463
Translation Journal and
Issue
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translation. Occasionally the translation information is not available
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Example: translation in Comput. Math. Math. Phys. 41 (2001), no. 1, 151--160
Series
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Example: Contemp. Math.
Mathematics
Subject
Classification (MSC)
MSCs are codes used to categorize most of the items in the Mathematical
Reviews
Database. The current classification scheme is composed of
five-character
identifiers, each corresponding to a discipline of mathematics. (See
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Each classified item in the Mathematical Reviews Database receives a single primary classification. Many classified items also receive one or more secondary classifications. The secondary classifications, if any, are in parentheses. Click on the MSC link to retrieve descriptions of each of the classifications. Note: Database Expansion Items, DML Items, Thesis Items, and Preliminary Data are not classified.
Example: 83C45 (81T13 81V17)
Reference lists from the original paper are available for recent papers from selected journals (see reference list journals for a list of these). The reference list appears at the end of the item, immediately after the review if there is one and after the bibliographic information otherwise. The references appear in a similar format and with the same data as in the original item. (In particular, errors in references in the original item are not corrected.) A matching program is used to identify, if possible, each reference list item with its MathSciNet entry. The MR Number follows the reference and is linked to the corresponding MathSciNet full item. Reference list items that are preprints may match published items in MathSciNet. Because of the possibility of incorrect matches, the MathSciNet link is prefaced with cf.
Reference lists may be displayed or suppressed as a preference.
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Note that the Reference Citations are limited to those items that include a full reference list in MathSciNet. As further reference lists are added, the number of reference citations will grow.
When the MathSciNet item being displayed is cited in other reviews, a From Reviews link is provided in the Citations box. Clicking on the link yields a headline list of the items whose reviews include a citation to the on-screen item. The list of headlines can be used in the same way as any other search result. (If there is only one review citation, the full item with that review is displayed.)
For those items having a review, the full text of the review is displayed in HTML using the MathJax rendering of the LaTeX-encoded mathematical expressions. For examples of MathJax rendering in MathSciNet, see MR3401119, MR3338633, MR3299602 and MR3304609. While MathJax produces beautiful mathematical typesetting in all modern browsers (Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer) and works well with most reviews, it does have a few limitations at the present time (2016). In cases where MathJax cannot process a string containing unsupported commands, the associated source code fragment is provided (as in MR1375336). The complete typeset review can still be viewed by selecting its PDF counterpart, which is considered the version of record, via the pull-down menu or the PDF link near item's bibliographic heading. The pull-down menu gives both PDF and PDF for printing forms.
The Reviewer Name is a link to the MathSciNet author profile of that particular reviewer.
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