Connecting to MathSciNet from home

If you tried to use MathSciNet from home or somewhere else, you must have seen the MathSciNet Access Error message that states that ``MathSciNet is available by subscription only''. To be able to use MathSciNet from your laptop or home computer, you may use port forwarding (ssh tunneling):

Enable the port forwarding, connecting to your university's network with
```
ssh -fN -L 31415:www.ams.org:80  YourAccount@math.YourUniversity.edu
```
Instead of www.ams.org, you can use its mirrors: ams.rice.edu, ams.math.uni-bielefeld.de, ams.impa.br
In your browser, open the page http://localhost:31415/mathscinet
If you needed to reconnect to the network, your old ssh session is likely to have stalled. Kill the ssh process running in the background (there could be no two ssh's connected to the same 31415 port) and start again.
For my own reference,
```
kill `ps x|grep "ssh.*31415:www.ams.org"|grep -v grep|sed 's/^ *//'|cut -f1 -d' '`
```

Here is a functional MathSciNet search interface that connects to MathSciNet via port 31415 of your own computer (http://localhost:31415).

Connecting to MathSciNet from home

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