Alexandre Borovik on Unintended consequences of “author pays” open access
There is another potential serious problem with the “author pays” model of publication which is rarely discussed, although the issue of international collaboration has been mentioned in the Finch...
View ArticleBeatrice Pelloni on open access
I welcome this blog discussion – I don’t think the issue of open access is widely known or considered in the community for the complex and serious issue that it is. We clearly need a discussion, as it...
View ArticleAlexandre Borovik: The LMS Charter and Open Access.
As a Trustee of the LMS, I would like to point out that the Royal Charter puts the LMS under obligation to facilitate publication and dissemination of mathematical works. Indeed, one of the objects...
View ArticleAlexandre Borovik: Pierre Purseigle on Open Access
Reposted from Gold Open Access: Why you should be worried about it on Pierre Purseigle’ blog This is a very busy time of the year for academics and few of us have had the chance to investigate the...
View ArticleLMS journals and RCUK Open Access Policy
The UK Research Councils have issued a new policy on Open Access which will come into force from April 2013. All LMS journals are compliant with the new policy, and a statement giving more information...
View ArticleOpen access: How it affects UK mathematical science researchers
The Research Policy Committee has prepared a brief note to explain what `Open Access Publishing’ is, and how and why it will affect UK researchers. The key definitions concerning Open Access are set...
View ArticleHEFCE consultation on open access.
HEFCE has recently run a consultation on open access in the post 2014 REF. The HEFCE consultation document is here http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2013/201316 and the LMS Research Policy Committee’s...
View ArticleRecent letter to the Council of the LMS regarding the LMS JCM.
The letter below was recently sent to the LMS. I have been asked to post it here, to encourage this space for discussion. LETTER TO THE COUNCIL OF THE LMS ——————————– In accordance with Statute 19 of...
View ArticleIlya Kapovich on JCM: save “diamond open access”
To my knowledge, JCM has been the ONLY mathematical journal published by any major national mathematical society in the “diamond open access” model, meaning that the journal provided free access to the...
View ArticleOpen letter from John Cannon regarding the closure of the JCM
Dear Professor Tavare, I am writing to express my concern at the recent announcement by LMS of the planned closure of the LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics (JCM). First let me indicate why I...
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