This review of the literature on oligosaccharide synthesis tabulates over 700 glycosidic linkages that have been chemically synthesized in the “popular literature” in the year 1994. The “popular literature” consists of the following journals, most frequently used for reporting oligosaccharide synthesis:Acta Chem. Scand., Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. Engl., Aust. J. Chem., Bioorg. Med. Chem., Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., Bull. SOC. Chim. Fr., Can. J. Chem., Carbohydr. Res., Carbohydr. Lett., Chem. Ber., Chem. Lett., Chem.-Ztg., Gazz. Chim. Ital., Glycoconjugate J., Glycobiology, Helv. Chim. Acta, Heterocycles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Carbohydr. Chem., J. Chem. Res., J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun., J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. I, J. Med. Chem., J . Org. Chem., Liebigs Ann. Chem., Pol. J. Chem., Rec. Trav. Chim. Pays Bas., Synlett, Synthesis, Synth. Commun., Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Lett.