| The Mathematical Atlas |
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Editorial Policies
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Focus and Scope Peer Review Process Publication Frequency Open Access Policy Archiving |
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The Mathematical Atlas publishes short descriptions of widely-recognized mathematical subjects, to provide guide to the mathematical literature for a general audience. This open-access electronic journal is a development of the website of the same name created Dave Rusin. All articles are peer-reviewed. These encyclopedia articles will be 1 to 4 pages in length. The shorter entries (covering topics on which perhaps 100 research papers have been published) can be written by specialists. The longer entries (topics with perhaps 1000 research papers) should be written by established mathematicians with recognized breadth of vision. In the early development of the journal, titles of articles should match entries in well established subject classifications whenever possible. New articles with the same title as a previous one may be accepted, but only if the new article provides a significantly different perspective or substantial improvement over previous ones. What motivates this project is that, while many mathematical guides exist on the web already (many of them cited above), we feel it is time for the scholarly community itself to provide one. The provision of such a resource (as just outlined) would fill a void for trustworthy, high-quality guides to mathematical topics, which learners and educators could use without hesitation. |
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| Peer Review Process | |
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In order to maintain the highest possible research standards, papers will be refereed in the usual way, and no attempt will be made to speed up the refereeing process at the cost of quality. |
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The articles are published shortly after being accepted, usually within a week. |
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 This journal provides open access to all of it content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources. |
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| Archiving | |
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This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More... |
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