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Research in Mathematics at Norwegian Universities
Research in Mathematics at Norwegian Universities Bibliometric analysis Evaluation Division for Science Research in Mathematics at Norwegian Universities Bibliometric analysis © The Research Council of Norway 2012 The Research Council of Norway P.O.Box 2700 St. Hanshaugen N–0131 OSLO Telephone: +47 22 03 70 00 Telefax: +47 22 03 70 01 [email protected] www.rcn.no/english The report can be ordered at: www.forskningsradet.no/publikasjoner or green number telefax: +47 800 83 001 Design cover: Design et cetera Printing: 07 Gruppen/The Research Council of Norway Number of copies: 200 Oslo, March 2012 ISBN 978-82-12-03060-2 (print) ISBN 978-82-12-03061-9 (pdf) Evaluation of Mathematics – Publication and Citation Analysis National Indicators and International Comparisons Institutional Analyses Dag W. Aksnes 15.01 2012 Preface This report presents a bibliometric analysis of research in mathematics and is a background report of the evaluation of the discipline. The report is written on the commission of the Research Council of Norway by senior researcher Dr. Dag W. Aksnes (project leader) at the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU). 2 Contents Preface ..................................................................................................................................................... 2 1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 4 2 Data and methods ............................................................................................................................... -
April 2013 Table of Contents
ISSN 0002-9920 (print) ISSN 1088-9477 (online) of the American Mathematical Society April 2013 Volume 60, Number 4 Remembering Raoul Bott (1923—2005) page 398 Errors and Corrections in Mathematics Literature page 418 Mathematical Methods in the Study of Historical Chronology page 441 Newton’s Laws and Coin Tossing page 450 Visualizing the impact of humans on the planet (see page 425) Open Access Journals Abstract and in Mathematics Applied Analysis Your research wants to be free! Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 Advances in Decision Sciences Advances in Mathematical Physics Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 Hindawi Publishing Corporation Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com 7 6 Advances in 9 15 Operations Algebra 768 Research 7 Advances in Submit your manuscripts at Numerical Analysis Hindawi Publishing Corporation3 Volume 2013 Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com http://www.hindawi.com 2 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Computational and Mathematical Methods International Journal of in Medicine Game Theory Geometry Analysis Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 http://www.hindawi.com Volume 2013 International -
The Role of Editorial Boards of Scholarly Jour Als O The
THE ROLE OF EDITORIAL BOARDS OF SCHOLARLY JOURALS O THE GREE AD THE GOLD ROAD TO OPE ACCESS by SAAD ALZAHRANI A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Library, Archival and Information Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) April 2010 © Saad Alzahrani, 2010 Abstract The traditional subscription-based publishing system of scholarly journals is in crisis, and open access has been suggested as an alternative model. However, participants in the traditional publishing system are engaged in a debate on its feasibility as a replacement for subscription- based journals. As the gatekeepers who determine what is published in scholarly journals, editorial boards play an important role in scholarly communication. However, although there are some studies of their role in scholarly publishing no major study has focused on their role in influencing journal access polices, and in particular, their role in influencing journal policies to make some or all articles free or to allow self-archiving by authors. Through a survey of editors and editorial board members of major scholarly journals, this study explores their role in the open access movement. It examines the positions of the major publishers of scholarly journals (categorized as commercial, scholarly society and university publishers) to open access. In addition, it examines the awareness of journals’ editorial boards of their publisher’s access polices and whether their own attitudes to open access were consistent with those of their publishers. Editorial boards’ behaviour as a force for change in setting open access policies is explored. -
The Cost of Knowledge
THE COST OF KNOWLEDGE This is an attempt to describe some of the background to the current boycott of Elsevier by many mathematicians (and other academics) at http://thecostofknowledge.com, and to present some of the issues that confront the boycott movement. Although the movement is anything but monolithic, we believe that the points we make here will resonate with many of the signatories to the boycott. The role of journals (1): dissemination of research. The role of journals in professional mathematics has been under discussion for some time now (see, for example, [10], [4], [11], [12], [1], [9], [13], [2]). Traditionally, while journals served several purposes, their primary purpose was the dissemination of research papers. The journal publishers were charging for the cost of typesetting (not a trivial matter in general before the advent of electronic typesetting, and particularly non-trivial for mathematics), the cost of physically publishing copies of the journals, and the cost of distributing the journals to subscribers (primarily academic libraries). The editorial board of a journal is a group of professional mathematicians. Their editorial work is undertaken as part of their scholarly duties, and so is paid for by their employer, typically a university. Thus, from the publisher's viewpoint the editors are volunteers.1 When a paper is submitted to the journal, by an author who is again typically a university-employed mathematician, the editors select the referee or referees for the paper, evaluate the referees' reports, decide whether or not to accept the submission, and organize the submitted papers into volumes. These are passed on to the publisher, who then undertakes the job of actually publishing them.