''Forum of Mathematics, Pi'' and ''Forum of Mathematics, Sigma'' are

open-access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

journals for

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

published under a

creative commons Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has release ...

license by

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

. The founding

managing editor A managing editor (ME) is a senior member of a publication's management team. Typically, the managing editor reports directly to the editor-in-chief and oversees all aspects of the publication. United States In the United States, a managing edi ...

was Rob Kirby. He was succeeded by Robert Guralnick, who is currently the managing editor of both journals. ''Forum of Mathematics, Pi'' publishes articles of interest to a wide audience of mathematicians, while ''Forum of Mathematics, Sigma'' is intended for more specialized articles, with clusters of editors in different

areas of mathematics Mathematics is a broad subject that is commonly divided in many areas or branches that may be defined by their objects of study, by the used methods, or by both. For example, analytic number theory is a subarea of number theory devoted to the u ...

Abstracting and indexing

Both journals are abstracted and indexed in

Science Citation Index Expanded The Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) is a citation index owned by Clarivate and previously by Thomson Reuters. It was created by the Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information, launched in 1964 as Science Citation Index ( ...

MathSciNet MathSciNet is a searchable online bibliographic database created by the American Mathematical Society in 1996. It contains all of the contents of the journal ''Mathematical Reviews'' (MR) since 1940 along with an extensive author database, links ...

, and

Scopus Scopus is a scientific abstract and citation database, launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. The ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized as "intense" and is c ...

References

External links

A new open-access venture from Cambridge University Press
Tim Gowers, 2 July 2012
Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma
Terry Tao, 2 July 2012
The Forum of Mathematics, blessing or curse?
Peter Krautzberger, 11 November 2012 {{Mathematics in the United Kingdom Cambridge University Press academic journals Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals English-language journals Mathematics education in the United Kingdom Mathematics journals