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Editor of Duke Mathematical Journal wins Chern Medal Award

Congratulations to Duke Mathematical Journal editor Phillip Griffiths! He was awarded the 2014 Chern Medal for his work in complex geometry, particularly his work in Hodge theory and periods of algebraic varieties. The prize is given at the International Congress of Mathematicians, which is being held currently in Seoul, South Korea.

To read the official press release, click here.

Several contributors to DMJ have also been awarded the Fields Medal, including Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the medal. Other winners include Artur Avila and Manjul Bhargava. See a list of their contributions to DMJ below. Congratulations to all!

For more information on Duke Mathematical Journal, visit dukeupress.edu/dmj.

Contributions to DMJ from Fields Medalists include:

Maryam Mirzakhani, co-author of "Lattice point asymptotics and volume growth on Teichmüller space," here; Artur Avila, co-author of "Cohomological equations and invariant distributions for minimal circle diffeomorphisms," here and "Generic Singular Spectrum For Ergodic Schrödinger Operators," here; and Manjul Bhargava, co-author of "Error estimates for the Davenport-Heilbronn theorems," here.

Pioneering Innovative Publishing Partnerships

Welcome back to the University Press Week blog tour! Today we feature a guest post by Journals Acquisitions Editor Erich Staib and Project Euclid Manager Mira Waller. We have selected Project Euclid as our submission to the gallery of university press innovations, Ideas Unbound. Below they explain why. The blog tour begins today at MIT Press, where Editorial Director Gita Manaktala writes about the possibilities of the web MIT Press authors are using for scholarship, finding newly mediated ways to teach, conduct research, present data, and engage with various publics.Then head to Texas A&M University Press. Next University of Georgia Press features their Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series. At University of Pennsylvania Press, acquisitions editors discuss the foundations and future of some of the press's key subject areas. And then go to University of Toronto Press for a diiscussion of their Medieval and Renaissance Studies lists. And finally, at Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Cheryl Lousley, editor of the Environmental Humanities series, writes about the engagement of environmental issues through the humanities disciplines, such as literature, film, and media studies.

 

At times it can be easy to forget that a university’s library and press are of the same family. Bridging the gap between their differing, and long-established, cultures and operations can be tricky at best. Add inter-institutional cooperation into the mix and finding a way for the two to partner productively seems even more elusive. Project Euclid is not only a successful inter-institutional venture between Cornell University Library and Duke University Press, it is a-one-of-a-kind, discipline-specific publishing platform, and, therefore, is our innovation pick for University Press Week.

By providing both a feature-rich online hosting service and a growing collection of curated content, Project Euclid is uniquely able to support all types of mathematics and statistics publications. This includes well-established journals with substantial circulation, smaller journals with fewer resources, open-access publications, monograph series, and digitized book collections.

The end result is a vibrant online information community for independent and society publishers.

Project Euclid is a bright signal to the scholarly communication community of what is achievable when two diverse academic institutions come together and work collaboratively to leverage their complementary strengths.

Nagoya Mathematical Journal Moves to Advance Publication Model

We are pleased to announce that the Nagoya Mathematics Journal now offers accelerated publication through the Advance Publication feature. Articles released through Advance Publication will be posted on NMJ’s online platform before they appear in a print issue. The first Advance Publication articles are now available at projecteuclid.org/nmj.

Advance Publication content is in its final form; it has been reviewed, corrected, edited, typeset, and assigned a permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI). It only awaits permanent pages numbers, which will be added when the article is assigned to a volume and issue.

We hope that readers will enjoy having an early look at new work from NMJ.

2013 Euclid Prime Pricing Is Now Available

Project Euclid is pleased to announce that pricing for Euclid Prime, an online collection of 28 high-impact journals in mathematics and statistics is now available. Please visit dukeupress.edu/libraries to download 2013 pricing information.

Two titles from the 2012 collection, Experimental Mathematics and Internet Mathematics, will leave Euclid Prime in 2013. Current content from these titles will be available from Taylor & Francis; archival content remains available on Project Euclid.

For information about pricing or publications, please contact Customer Service at [email protected], or visit our Library Resource Center at dukeupress.edu/libraries.

Project Euclid is a joint venture of Cornell University Library and Duke University Press.

No Price Increase for Euclid Prime in 2012

Pricing for the 2012 Euclid Prime collection is now available: pricing for the collection has not increased from last year’s rates. 

Hosted on the Project Euclid platform, the collection includes 30 high-impact, peer-reviewed titles in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. New to the collection this year is the Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences.

 Beginning in 2012, domestic pricing will be based on the 2010 Carnegie Classifications and a new international pricing model based on World Bank Development Income Group Indicators will be introduced.

"Although the economy has started to improve, many libraries are still facing significant budget cuts in 2012," says Mira Waller, Project Euclid Manager.  “We recognize that these anticipated cuts are on top of continued annual reductions, so I am pleased to announce that the Euclid Prime prices will see no increase in 2012."

For more information about pricing and titles for the Euclid Prime collection, please visit dukeupress.edu/library/euclidprime or contact Journals Customer Service at [email protected].

Project Euclid is a joint venture of Cornell University Library and Duke University Press.

 

 

Project Euclid Receives 2011 PAM Division Award

Project Euclid — the premier platform and information community for mathematics and statistics resources from independent publishers — received the 2011 Division Award from the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) Division of the Special Libraries Association. Project Euclid is jointly managed by Cornell University Library and Duke University Press.

Given annually, this award recognizes significant contributions to the literature of physics, mathematics, or astronomy, and honors work that demonstrably improves the exchange of information within these three disciplines. The award also takes into consideration projects that benefit libraries.

“It is an honor for Project Euclid to receive the Special Library Association’s PAM Award,” said Mira Waller, Project Euclid Manager. “PAM is a community of peers and a strong voice for librarians and information experts around the world. In receiving this award I feel that Project Euclid is fulfilling its core mission of disseminating scholarly information in the fields of mathematics and statistics.”

“The PAM Division Award is a real honor,” said David Ruddy, Cornell’s Project Euclid lead and Director of Scholarly Communications Services at Cornell University Library. “It is also validation that through strong collaborations the academy can effectively address challenges facing scholarly communications.”

Cornell University Library launched Project Euclid in 2000. In 2008, Cornell and Duke University Press established a collaborative partnership agreement to jointly manage and expand the project. Its mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. It is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals.

For information about Project Euclid, please contact [email protected], or visit projecteuclid.org.

Project Euclid Reaches 1 Million Pages

Project Euclid, a not-for-profit initiative to support independent publishers of mathematics and statistics, announced yesterday that they now have over one million pages of open-access content on their site. Researchers, scholars, and students from around the word can access this content on Project Euclid without any restrictions.
    The Web site http://projecteuclid.org first went live eight years ago. That first month, August 2001, Euclid held content from 6 journals, with 126 articles total. Today there are over 60 journal titles -- from the United States, Japan, Europe, Brazil, and Iran -- and the system holds 105,960 articles, 159 monographs, and over 1.39 million pages.
    Project Euclid, jointly managed by Cornell University Library and Duke University Press, provides affordable access to high-impact, peer-reviewed mathematics and statistics journals, monographs, and conference proceedings.  Its mission is to advance scholarly communication by addressing the unique needs of  independent and society publishers.  By forming mutually beneficial partnerships between these publishers and the global library community, Project Euclid strengthens and encourages scholarly communications as well as cultivates nontraditional publishing models. Through a combination of support by subscribing libraries and participating publishers, Project Euclid is able to make 70% of its journal articles available without any access restrictions.