Project Euclid is a collaborative partnership between
Cornell University Library
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and
Duke University Press
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which seeks to advance
scholarly communication
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in
theoretical and
applied mathematics
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and
statistics
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through partnerships with independent and society publishers. It was created to provide a platform for small publishers of
scholarly journal
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s to move from print to electronic in a cost-effective way.
Through a combination of support by subscribing libraries and participating publishers, Project Euclid has made 70% of its journal articles available as
open access
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. As of 2010, Project Euclid provided access to over one million pages of open-access content.
Mission and goals
Project Euclid's stated mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics.
[ Through a "mixture of open access, subscription, and hosted subscription content it provides a way for small publishers (especially societies) to host their math or statistics content".]
History
In 1999, Cornell University Library received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the development of an online publishing service designed to support the transition for small, non-commercial mathematics journals from paper to digital distribution.Duke University Press
Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 ...
, which had experience in putting its own math journals online and a similar interest in assisting non-commercial math journals, worked as Cornell's partner in developing the grant application and then in developing Project Euclid's publishing model.
Cornell launched Project Euclid in May 2003 with nineteen journals. In July 2008, Cornell University Library and Duke University Press established a joint venture and began co-managing Project Euclid. Duke assumed responsibility for "marketing, financial, and order fulfillment workflows" while Cornell continued to provide and support Project Euclid's IT infrastructure.[
Currently, Project Euclid hosts both ]open access journals
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and monograph
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s, as well as its Prime collection of peer-reviewed
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titles. Currently, there are over 60 journal titles from the United States, Japan, Europe, Brazil, and Iran. Euclid’s holdings as of February 2012 include: 110,400 journal articles from 64 titles, 162 monographs, and 23 conference proceedings
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volumes.[
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See also
* DPubS
* D-Scribe Digital Publishing
References
External links
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Academic journal online publishing platforms
Open access projects