{"id":1879,"date":"2017-12-06T19:16:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2018-03-12T15:12:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:12:16","slug":"mathscinet-is-now-a-cloud-atlas-to-the-mathematics-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2017\/12\/06\/mathscinet-is-now-a-cloud-atlas-to-the-mathematics-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"MathSciNet is now a cloud atlas to the mathematics literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We are moving to the cloud.\u00a0 Actually, the primary servers for MathSciNet already moved to cloud servers on October 17th of this year.\u00a0 We waited to make sure that there were no hiccups with the transition before making it public.\u00a0 There are now servers in Europe, North America, and Asia that are simultaneously updated.\u00a0 The cloud servers are now providing consistent and faster service.<\/p>\n

The move to the cloud means a new address for MathSciNet:\u00a0 https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet<\/a>.\u00a0 The old address redirects you to this URL, so there is no immediate need to change links or bookmarks — but updating links is not a bad idea.\u00a0 This change did affect some proxy settings for off-site users, however.\u00a0 We have contacted librarians and have provided instructions on how to reset the proxy settings.\u00a0 If you are having a problem, write to msn-support@ams.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The move to the cloud also means that we will be retiring the five mirror servers at Rice University (Houston), IMPA (Rio de Janeiro), IRMA (Strasbourg), MPI (Bonn), and the University of Bielefeld (Bielefeld).\u00a0 For twenty years, these institutions provided\u00a0better global access to the Mathematical Reviews database by\u00a0hosting servers around the world. Over time, though, the technology of the web has\u00a0evolved to a point where distributed access is now best provided by hosting sites on\u00a0cloud servers.\u00a0 We are truly grateful to the five hosts.\u00a0 Over the next six months, as the mirror sites retire, their URLs will begin redirecting to the cloud servers.<\/p>\n

This is the latest of the enhancements rolling out for MathSciNet.\u00a0 Sometimes they are quite visible, like the faceted searches released in January.\u00a0 Sometimes they are infrastructure, like this move to cloud servers.\u00a0 The internal changes are often best appreciated by not being noticed at all, except that your searches are a little faster and MathSciNet is always available.<\/p>\n

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We are moving to the cloud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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