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The Digital Mathematics Library, Volume 50, Number 8

The Digital Mathematics Library Not long ago, Keith Dennis, a mathematician at Cornell University, walked into the departmental photocopying room and saw a bunch of old journals with articles tabbed for photocopying. He told the secretary assigned to make the copies that the journals are available electronically through the JSTOR journal storage website. She was delighted not to have to spend time standing in front of the copy machine. For his part, Dennis was puzzled that one of his colleagues evidently did not realize how easily one can get the material on the Web. " You would hope mathematicians would have some idea of where their literature is, " he said. " But that's simply not true. " Dennis told this anecdote at a meeting of the Digital Mathematics Library (DML) Planning Group that took place in May this year in Göttingen, Ger-many. Despite the committee's work, which was supported by a one-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and despite progress in getting older paper literature online, the mathematical community remains largely unaware of what is available through the Web. Back issues of such major journals as Inventiones Mathematicae, Mathematische Annalen, and Publications Mathé-matiques de l'IHÉS were recently made available for free online, and there is more to come. This work is mostly being carried out by a few disparate projects that operate independently. The challenge now facing the world mathematical community is not only to secure funding for such projects but also to come up with ways to coordinate them to prevent duplication of effort, encourage adherence to standards, and ensure that the material is widely accessible. The grand vision of the DML is to have all of the mathematical literature online and available through a central source to anyone who has a computer and an Internet connection. Much of the current literature is " born-digital " , that is, created electronically and available online from the time of publication. Although high subscription fees can hinder access, that material at least exists in electronic form. But the vast majority of mathematics books and journals are still available only on paper. " Retrodigitization " is the name for the process of creating electronic copies of paper-only works. The initial goal of the DML is the retrodigitization of all of the past mathematics literature. This goal was strongly pushed by Philippe Tondeur, now retired from the University of Illinois …