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MATH all over the world. To serve different mathematical communities, the
partners and the LIMES team installed multilingual search interfaces. Most recently,
starting with the ICM 2002 in Beijing, an interface in Chinese had been
developed.
Searches can be made using the following list of fields: authors, titles, classification
(MSC 2000), basic index, source, language, year of publication, etc. A
search can be formulated in logical combinations of these terms. For the search,
a graphic menu is available. The information is given in the AMSTEX source
code, but several choices for a convenient formula display are available. Links to
the full text of the corresponding article have been installed, if this is available
electronically. Other options to get the full text of such an article consist of central
document delivery services. Buttons to connect to such services and to see if
the corresponding article is available there are installed in the menu for the
search.
2 Related projects for accessing literature in mathematics
and applications
There are two projects with homepages hosted by EMIS which are designed to
provide services related to Zentralblatt MATH. One of them, called EULER,
was funded by the European Union and is established as a service supported by
an ever growing consortium. The other one is the Jahrbuch-Project ERAM, funded
by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
The goal of the EULER project was to develop a prototype of an Internet service
which integrates some of the most relevant publication-related electronic
resources in the field of mathematics. This should provide „one-stop-shopping“
in heterogeneous resources for the user, for instance links to OPACs, databases,
pre-print servers, electronic journals and other WWW-catalogues. More details
on the project and the resulting service can be found in [2], [4] and in another
presentation in this volume.
The aim of the Jahrbuch-Project, which officially is called ERAM (Electronic
Research Archive in Mathematics), is to capture the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte
der Mathematik as a classical bibliographic service in mathematics in a
database and to use this activity to select important publications from the Jahrbuch
period for digitisation and storage in a digital archive. Longevity is typical
for research achievements in mathematics. Hence to improve the availability of
the classical publications in mathematics and to enable quick information retrieval
of these, electronic literature information services and digital archives of the
complete texts are needed as important tools for mathematical research in the future.
This is the reason why so many efforts are invested in projects like ERAM.