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AMS adds newly digitized reviews to the
Mathematical Reviews database

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Providence, RI - The American Mathematical Society has announced that over 175,000 newly digitized, full-text reviews from the Mathematical Reviews (MR) volume years 1975-1979 have been recently added to the MR database. This represents more than 35% of the total reviews to be digitized and then added to the MR database over the next 24 months.

The addition of these reviews marks a milestone in the AMS's multi-year project to digitize full reviews from the early years of Mathematical Reviews, covering issues published from 1940 through 1979. When completed, the project will add over 500,000 reviews to the more than 800,000 reviews in the MR database prior to the start of the project, thereby making all reviews in MR - from the first issue published in 1940 through current issues - fully accessible through online delivery by the summer of 1999.

The project represents a substantial investment by the American Mathematical Society and reflects the AMS's commitment to enhance and improve its online offerings from the MR database, which is recognized as one of the most extensive and important mathematical databases in the world.

With this recent addition, the MR database now contains over 975,000 full-text reviews covering the volume years 1975 to the present, along with approximately 350,000 bibliographic records for reviews going back to 1940. Reviews from the MR volumes 1970-1974 are expected to be added to the MR database by August 1998. At the conclusion of the project, the MR database will contain some 1,300,000 fully reviewed items (and an additional 200,000 bibliographic records). It represents the single largest collection of full-text reviews of the mathematical research literature currently available online.

Newly added reviews are now accessible to subscribers of MathSciNet, the Web delivery version of Mathematical Reviews (http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/).