New interface

Visitors to online journals will note that we now have all AMS, AMS Distributed, Translation journals and Print journals available from the journal's homepage. You can jump directly to the online journal, or to our bookstore for subscription information.

The journals interface relies on cascading style sheets (CSS) for a cleaner and quicker browser display. You will have a better viewing experience if you have a modern browser and style sheets are enabled. The change also adheres to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) guidelines on how to use CSS and XHTML to the best effect.

If you have made the decision to use an older browser (Netscape 4.X for instance) or don't have the option of using a modern browser, our online journals will still be fully functional. The difference is that your viewing experience may not be optimal. Using an outdated browser?

New search capability

Flexible year searching

Searching for year ranges is now available. Users can now search for items by month and year of publication. Note: Readers may now view every issue of the Bulletin, beginning with the inaugural issue published in 1891.  Past issues of the Bulletin are searchable and fully integrated with the modern Bulletin.  The digitization was carried out through the Digital Mathematics Library Project of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and was funded by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Sort order

We have also provided the user with the ability to change the search results sort order. Searchers can set the following sort orders:

• Journal, publication date, author
• Author, publication date, journal
• Publication date

The default sort order is Journal, date author

Search results display formating

Standard Results Format
The Standard Results Format provides a larger set of bibliographic information that allows users to more fully view article information before moving to the abstract or article.
This format includes the following information:

• Author
• Title
• Journal abbreviation
• Volume
• Year
• Page span
• Link to abstract
• Links to article

  Example:

  Peter Sarnak. Spectra of hyperbolic surfaces. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.40 (2003) 441-478.
  Abstract, references, and article information
  View Article: PDF DVI PostScript

Condensed Results Format
The Condensed Results Format provides a smaller set of information that allows users to quickly peruse a search result. This format includes the following information:

• Author
• Title
• Journal abbreviation
• Link to abstract
• Link to article

Example:

Jean-Pierre Serre. On a theorem of Jordan. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
Abstract, references, and article information
View Article: PDF DVI PostScript

Navigation

The journals application now has a more consistant and easily usable navigational scheme. When linking to an article abstract from a search results screen, users are now able to return to the previous search results, link to the Table of Contents and other areas in the selected journal.

Wildcarding

Wildcarding is now available with the MSC search field. Previously, wildcarding was not allowed with an MSC search. Users can search for terms such as 14*25 and 11*. Queries with a leading asterisk will not work. This is the case with all fields in the journals search.

Pluralization in searches

A very useful feature of the journals search is the automatic extension of singular search words to plural search words, and plural search words to singular search words. In most cases, someone searching for "matrix" is likely also to be interested in occurences of "matrices". This new addition to the search functionality allows you to gather both.

Using an outdated Browser?

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• Netscape v7 or higher (all platforms), Mozilla Firefox (Windows) , Camino (Mac OS X), Galeon (Linux GNOME Desktop), Konqueror (Linux KDE Desktop) or other browser stemming from the Mozilla.org project
• Opera v7 or higher (Windows, Linux)
• Apple's Safari (Mac OS X)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or higher (Windows)
  • Please note this page does not pretend to be an exhaustive list of browsers that support web standards.
    See the Web Standards Project for additional information