Completeness of reference databases, old-fashioned or not?

MaRDI QIDQ634502zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bernd Wegner

Publication date 16 August 2011

Published in European Mathematical Society Newsletter (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65) Bibliographic studies (01A90)

Review text

Summary: The growing number of publications in mathematics is a challenge for reference databases to catch up with. Hence, maintaining completeness of coverage is a permanent matter of discussion for these services. On the other side, complete reference services will very soon be the only integrating factor for the large variety of mathematical publications. Reducing coverage will damage the integrity of mathematical research and make a fair mutual acknowledgement of research results impossible.

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