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| Thomas Hintermann, 2003-02-12 09:24 UTC [#9] Published on 2003-02-12 10:22 UTC by José Miguel Urbano |
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As of January 2003, the new publishing house of the European Mathematical Society has taken over the journal "Interfaces and Free Boundaries" from Oxford University Press by mutual agreement.
The first issue under the new logo will be published on paper in March 2003, and is already published electronically, along with all back issues, on our website at http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/IFB/. The online version is published by the American Mathematical Society on our behalf and the access to the full text is at present free of charge. Access will however be restricted to the subscribers in a few months.
In its fifth year of publication, Interfaces and Free Boundaries has established itself as an interdisciplinary journal of a high scientific standing on mathematical modelling, analysis and computation with a distinguished editorial board. However, even though the EMS Publishing House is a not-for-profit enterprise, it is important to secure the journal's economic equilibrium with the help of the scientific community. We therefore encourage every reader of this newsletter to support the cause of the journal by endorsing its subscription by his or her home institution's library (or other libraries, for that matter). Subscription information as well as a printable order form can be found on the website mentioned above, and I would be happy to personally answer any relevant questions.
Some general information on the EMS Publishing house is available on the same website; here, a few facts will suffice. The aims of the enterprise are to publish first quality books and journals from all fields of mathematics at reasonable prices and with the best possible service to authors and readers. We plan to achieve global distribution through collaboration with other society or independent publishers. The entire income generated from our future publications will be used to cover current expenses and perhaps, if the situations allows, support the dissemination of mathematical knowledge in a broader sense. In other words, we plan to establish a publishing house more or less comparable with other publishers of university level mathematics, but which is directed by mathematicians and committed to satisfy the needs of the community rather than economic ambitions.
Our first publication is the "Interfaces and Free Boundaries", to be followed by the journal of the EMS, currently published by Springer-Verlag, as of January 2004. Further journals will be added in due course, with the emphasis on existing journals. No plans for new journals exist at present. At the same time, we are building a book program that will allow us, with some probability, to enter the market in Summer 2003 with a small but high-quality selection that exemplifies the kind of publications we have in mind. Among others, we have founded two book series. "EMS Monographs in Mathematics" is edited by Gerard van der Geer of Amsterdam and Thomas Kappeler of Zurich, and "EMS Monographs in Applied Mathematics" by Helge Holden of Trondheim and Michael Renardy of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. We encourage you to send proposals to the address found on the homepage. Moreover, negotiations are almost concluded with the ETH and the University of Zurich for the publication of an advanced lecture series that will encompass the well-known courses given at the ETH Research Institute for Mathematics, formerly published by Birkhauser. Details will be made public on our website soon.