Electronic Publishing Committee Home Page

Important Note:

In 2017 this committee merged with the Publications Committee into the new Committee on Publications and Electronic Dissemination.

Terms of reference:

This committee is responsible for keeping the EMS abreast with the development of electronic tools of doing mathematics such as electronic publishing, archiving and communication. It reviews the progress in these areas and makes suggestions helping to build the appropriate electronic infrastructures.

Activities

• European Digital Mathematics Library (EuDML)
• Encyclopedia of Mathematics (EoM)
• ECM Proceedings (retro-digitized)
• The Future World Heritage Digital Mathematics Library: Plans and Prospects, Workshop at Washington DC, June 1-3, 2012
• Round Table "EuDML: Accessing Europe's mathematical treasures"
  at the 6th ECM, Krakow 2012
  Poster of the EPC presentation at the 6th ECM [PDF]
  Panel presentations:
  • Introduction [PDF] by Jiří Rákosník
  • About mathematical archives for the future [PDF] by Laurent Guillopé
  • Towards open mathematics: the role of communication platforms, positioning of EuDML [PDF] by Marek Niezgódka
  • Crosslinking, scope, classification – How EuDML and Zentralblatt work together and improve each other [PDF] by Olaf Teschke
  • EuDML: The European Digital Mathematics Library [PDF] by Jiří Rákosník

  EuDML flyers [PDF] were distributed to all participants of the Congress.

• Panel discussion "The Future of Mathematical Publishing" at the 7th ECM, Berlin 2016: Notes [PDF]

Projects and Initiatives

• ENCES (European Network for Copyright in Support of Education and Science)
• OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe)
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
• Linked Data
• Linking Open Data, W3C SWEO Community Project

Documents of the EC

• Outcome of the consultations on Mathematics for Digital Science (2014)
• Content in the Digital Single Market (COM(2012) 789 final) [PDF]
• Commission recommendation of 17.7.2012 on access to and preservation of scientific information [PDF]
• Towards better access to scientific information: Boosting the benefits of public investments in research COM(2012) 401 final [PDF]

Various Documents

• Jiří Rákosník and Olaf Teschke: Editorial: Opportunities and Challenges in Electronic Publication, EMS Newsletter September 2014 [PDF]
• G8 Science Ministers Statement, June 12, 2013
• Excellence with impact, Research Councils UK announces new Open Access policy 16 July 2012
• Finch Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings; the Finch Group
• The Guardian 15 July 2012: Free access to British scientific research within two years
• IMU/CEIC document on Best Current Practices for Journals (2010) [PDF]

Reports