Questions tagged [mathscinet]

I am a retired mathematics professor and AMS member continuing to do research and publish papers. Unfortunately, my former university (39 years) allows library access only to Emeritus Professors so I have no access to JSTOR or MathSciNet, putting me…

Is there an easy way to get MathSciNet to fix minor mistakes in their references? It would be great if there was some sort of web form where you could enter the proposed fix, which would save time for the people working over there. I mention this…

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 or no merit from a mathematical viewpoint?

I am trying to search on MathSciNet for articles which contains $C^*$ in their title (as in $C^*$-algebras) however I can't figure out how to get MathSciNet not to interpret the '*' as a stand in for an arbitrary sequence of characters. (I am moving…