Room temperature measurements of longitudinal and transverse Nernst–Ettingshausen coefficients [Formula: see text] have been made on samples of GaxIn1–xAs alloys for a range of magnetic fields (B) up to 3.2 Wb/m2. Previous theoretical expressions for the values of these coefficients have been extended to the case of electrons in a single Kane band, and hence expressions for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] obtained in terms of B, the bottom of the band effective mass m0*, and the scattering coefficient s. Fitting of these expressions to the experimental data thus has given values of m0* and s for each alloy sample. The values of m0* are found to be in good agreement with those obtained previously from plasma reflectance work, while the values of s indicate that over most of the alloy range polar optical scattering is predominant, but that in the range 0.4 < x < 0.7, alloy scattering may also have some contribution.