Thursday, April 14, 2016

[DMANET] Survey (10-15 min, anonymous) of opinion on math journal reform

Dear colleagues,

There is much dissatisfaction with the current state of research publication, but little information on community attitudes and priorities. I have started a survey which I hope you will fill in (I estimate 10-15 minutes, and it is completely anonymous). The results will be made publicly available later this year. I hope that it will help to focus our efforts as a community by allowing us to work toward broadly agreed goals. I want to get as representative and as large a sample of the world mathematical community as possible. Please forward to your local colleagues.

Please answer this survey if and only if you have been involved with a mathematical journal as editor, reviewer/referee, author or reader in the last 3 years. By "mathematical" we also mean to include theoretical computer science journals and disciplinary journals used by applied mathematicians. Essentially, any journal covered by Mathematical Reviews qualifies.

To fill it out, visit:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r4LBUJk1VF9e4Dl4aXgS4fW-O8HR9yz1cqmXdzz0CjM/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

Mark C. Wilson
Department of Computer Science
University of Auckland
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