Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 18:24:15 -0300 (ADT) Subject: MathSci Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 07:08:05 -0400 From: Peter Freyd Several have asked me about MathSci. It is not, as far as I know, available to everyone on the internet. I think you have to talk your library into subscribing. The version at Penn is accessible only to people it recogognizes as being from Penn. It is described as follows: MathSci, produced by the American Mathematical Society (AMS), provides coverage of the world's literature on mathematics, statistics, and computer science and their applications in a wide range of disciplines, including econometrics, operations research, engineering, physics, biology, and many related fields. MathSci consists of eight subfiles: Mathematical Reviews. 1940-. Updated monthly, MR consists of evaluative reviews and abstracts of the mathematical research literature of the world. Current Mathematical Publications, 1985-. Updated monthly, CMP contains approximately 3000 newly published titles in advance of being reviewed. Current Index to Statistics, 1975-. Updated quarterly, produced jointly by the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, CIS provides comprehensive coverage on the literature of Statistics. Eugene Strens Recreational Mathematics Collection contains over 4,000 mathematical books, journals, manuscripts, and puzzles archived by the University of Calgary Libraries. Index to Statistics and Probability, 1910-1968, compiled by John W. Tukey and Ian C. Ross, is an historical statistics subfile of over 25,000 entries. ACM Guide to Computer Literature, 1981-1989. Produced by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), GCL is a comprehensive index to the computing literature covering over 500 periodicals including books, conference proceedings and report literature. Computing Review, 1984-July 1990. Produced by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), CR consists of evaluative reviews of the research in computer science and its applications. Technical Reports in Computer Science, 1954 -. Updated quarterly, the Stanford collection consists of over 40,000 records of technical reports acquired from more than 135 academic and corporate institutions. * * * Some titles and abstracts/reviews will have TeX encoding, a formatting software system. You must have the TeX software with AMSFonts in order to restore the encoded records to the typeset form i.e. correctly formatted. Instructions for obtaining the software are available by accessing e-math via the AMS web ( http://e-math.ams.org) or via telnet ( e-math.ams.org logon: e-math password: e-math ).