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How could a free (i.e. free content) alternative for MathSciNet and Zentralblatt be created?

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• Some mathematicians have stopped writing reviews for MathSciNet because they feel their output should be freely available. (The Pricing for MathSciNet is not high, but it is not the point.)

• Two related questions: Are there any good websites... and Errata database?; see also r-forum, nLab and wikademic.

What can be done (based on answers below)

• One thing that can be really useful and doable is to create (and maintain) a database of articles (and maybe abstracts), where you can find all the articles that were referring to a given one.

• Once it is done we can add lists of errors --- it will add something new and valuable for the project (but this will take a while).

• The above two things might be already enough for practical purpose. It will be even better if it will attract enough reviewers to the project.

How could a free (i.e. free content) alternative for MathSciNet and Zentralblatt be created?

Comments

• Some mathematicians have stopped writing reviews for MathSciNet because they feel their output should be freely available. (The Pricing for MathSciNet is not high, but it is not the point.)

• Two related questions: Are there any good websites... and Errata database?; see also r-forum, nLab and wikademic.

What can be done (based on answers below)

• One thing that can be really useful and doable is to create (and maintain) a database of articles (and maybe abstracts), where you can find all the articles that were referring to a given one.

• Once it is done we can add lists of errors --- it will add something new and valuable for the project (but this will take a while).

• The above two things might be already enough for practical purpose. It will be even better if it will attract enough reviewers to the project.