::Mathematical Sciences Publishers::

MSP Mission

MSP is a non-profit organization, run by and for mathematicians, which is dedicated to publishing journals and books at the lowest possible cost and distributing them to the mathematical sciences community as freely as possible.

Libraries will be asked to contribute to the costs of producing the journals by purchasing an electronic (or paper) subscription before being allowed electronic access to current MSP journals.

MSP is committed to the permanent preservation of its journals. Besides posting individual articles on the arXiv, MSP will maintain its journals as close to state-of-art as is feasible and in particular will provide full text search facilities with all articles fully hyperlinked.

Subscription costs will be kept as low as possible consistent with our aims, with a price structure which comprises a basic charge for electronic subscription plus a small additional charge (to cover the extra costs) for paper copy.

Publications

MSP is the home of Geometry & Topology, and Algebraic and Geometric Topology, both established journals of high quality, and the recently founded Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Algebra & Number Theory, and the forthcoming Analysis & PDE, and the Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures. MSP also publishes the book series, Geometry & Topology Monographs. MSP is the publisher (not owner) of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics.

MSP produces state-of-the-art electronic journals, copy edited to a high standard, with a print version available to those who prefer it. The journals are archived through mirror sites, at the arXiv and at Project Euclid. They are hyperlinked, with a permanent unchanged version as well as a version which is updated as references change or corrections are necessary.

MSP invites groups of editors who propose to start new journals to work with MSP, which will provide all the infrastructure that is now provided by the commercial publishers. Editors will need to do no more than the usual task of editing a journal. Typesetting, copy-editing, subscriptions, printing, etc will be handled by MSP.

MSP also invites existing journals to have some or all of their publishing work done by MSP, as in the case of the Pacific Journal.

MSP is a non-profit organization run by an executive board consisting of editors from its journals plus ad hoc members. Its journals and books are published by an able technical staff.