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Mathematics Library Exhibit: The Digital Mathematics Library

This page is a companion to the Spring 2004 exhibit in the display case inside the entrance to the Mathematics Library, 310 Vincent Hall.

WHO? WHERE?

Many independent digitization and electronic publishing projects combine to make an ever-growing Digital Mathematics Library; organizers include:

Cornell University Library's Digital Mathematics Library: an NSF-funded planning project, 2001-2003, "toward the establishment of a comprehensive, international, distributed collection of digital information and published knowledge in mathematics." See also their lists of Readings: 1. mathematics and the digital environment; 2. digital libraries and Mathematics Digitization links
The Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) "has made a commitment to coordinate further efforts to achieve a world-wide digital library."
The Electronic Publishing Committee of the European Mathematical Society (EPC-EMS) supervises the Electronic Library of Mathematics, which provides "generally free" access to online journals, article collections, monographs, and other electronic resources.

RETRODIGITIZATION

Projects to digitize older mathematics materials, some of which are out of copyright, are numerous and widespread, including

Gottinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum (University of Gottingen) Browse by journal title to see, for example, back issues of Inventiones Mathematicae.
NUMDAM: archives of mathematical journals published in France
The Jahrbuch Project: Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics (ERAM); provides a digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942 and a database based on the Jahrbuch uber die Fortschritte der Mathematik
Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs
University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection
Gallica: La Bibliotheque Numerique (National Library of France) Take the "Recherche" link to see a list of mathematics periodicals or to search for a specific work.

OPEN ACCESS

The Open Access movement supports the free electronic availability of the current scholarly literature, such as through e-print servers or unrestricted access to electronic journals. The similar Open Archive initiative encourages publishers to make the older content of traditional scholarly journals freely accessible (e.g., after a year's or few years' delay). A few participants are

The Electronic Library of Mathematics Includes current monographs, proceedings, journals, etc.
Front end for the Mathematics ArXiv
DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA, an e-journal that produced the proceedings of the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians (making the proceedings available at the time of the conference, for the first time).

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

University of Minnesota students, staff, and faculty have access to these resources.

Project Euclid, a project at Cornell University Libraries that produces electronic versions of many current mathematics journals from independent publishers.
JSTOR, a cooperative project among many libraries that digitized complete back runs of prominent journals in Mathematics and Statistics.

FORTHCOMING

Many different groups continue to develop online mathematics resources. Expect to see

NIST's Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, based on Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions (with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables) ; coming in 2005.
links from MathSciNet and Zentralblatt MATH to open access and retrodigitized sources.
complete backfile for the Pacific Journal of Mathematics, on Project Euclid
backfiles for the Bulletin of the AMS and other journals from AMS
more, more, more!

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