Results of a Worldwide Survey of Mathematicians on Journal Reform

[摘要] Scholarly communication is in a state of ferment. Theshift over the last few decades from print to digital dissemination has set off a wide range of movements forchange, from the radical to the more modest and incremental. At the centre of many of these debates is themove toward wider access to the research literature.Mathematics occupies an unusual place in these debates,being simultaneously radical in the degree of uptake ofnew approaches such as arXiv.org for rapid dissemination prior to peer review but also highly conservativein terms of the move to online-only journals and wideaccess models more generally.