How could a free (i.e. free content) alternative for MathSciNet and Zentralblatt be created? Comments Some mathematicians have stopped writing reviews for MathSciNet because …

Hello, Recently, a colleague of mine pointed me to a MathSciNet review of one of my papers that is completely off the mark - it is not negative or anything like that, but it gross …

What are some reasons for mathscinet listing a article, but then stating that there will be ``no review of this item''? In particular does it at all imply that the paper has little …

What are the pros and cons of the MathSciNet database vs Google Scholar? I don't have access to Mathscinet so this question is out of curiosity, and also this question where MathS …

This site claims that the diameter of the Erdös component of the collaboration graph in 2004 was 23. What is it now? Is it increasing or decreasing with time? Recall that the vert …

I am writing a small thing in which I am required to use manually formatted \bibitem entries rather than a BibTeX file. This takes a lot of time, and I probably get some of the for …

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Along the same lines as the question A single paper everyone should read?, which MathSciNet Reviews, Zentralblatt MATH reviews, etc should everyone read ?