EMS Handbook: Standing Committees

2.3.10 Publications and Electronic Dissemination

The Committee on Publications and Electronic Dissemination was established in 2017 as a result of the merger of the Committee on Electronic Publishing and Committee on Publications.

The committee's remit is to address issues related to the publishing of scholarly mathematical literature and the provision of access, specifically:

• Publishing in a broad sense including electronic publishing, dissemination and long-term preservation, as well as on-line resources of knowledge like open archives, mathematical blogs, Q&A fora, video libraries, knowledge bases, math-aware retrieval etc.
• Open Access, sustainable business model;
• ethics in publishing, scientific quality of publications, peer review, use and misuse of scientometrics (in collaboration with the Ethics Committee);
• zbMATH Open, including the role of its Scientific User Committee;
• EMS Press (in collaboration with its Scientific Advisory Board);
• Digital Mathematics Libraries, their sustainability and enhancement with new forms of knowledge including mathematical software, specialised mathematical research data, etc., efforts towards the Global Digital Mathematics Library.

The PED committee discusses issues of relevance in their remit by email. The committee helps on issues raised by the EC, by producing letters or analysing cases within their scope.