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Collection of the backfiles of nine high quality peer-reviewed journals from the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
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Agreement start date: 1 January 2020
Agreement end date: 31 December 2022
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Owner: The American Mathematical Society (AMS), an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, having its principal offices at 201 Charles Street, Providence, Rhode Island, RI 02904‐2294 US.
AMS peer-reviewed journals are of the highest quality in mathematical research. Their journals have been published since 1891 and cover a broad range of mathematics. Each journal is managed by editors who are prominent in their fields, and each is unique in its offering of articles, book reviews, and reports.
Journal of the AMS dating from 1988 is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in all areas of pure and applied mathematics
Mathematics of Computation is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in computational mathematics. Areas covered with a backfile from 1943 include numerical analysis, computational discrete mathematics, including number theory, algebra and combinatorics, and related fields such as stochastic numerical methods.
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to shorter research articles dating from 1950
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to research articles dating from 1900 in all areas of pure and applied mathematics./p
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to the publication of research in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. Papers are generally at least 80 and not more than 200 published pages in length. Shorter or longer papers require the approval of the Managing Editor.
The agreement covers the current year plus a moving 5 year backfile;
Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society - this journal dating from 2004, a translation of Trudy Moskovskogo Matematicheskogo Obshchestva, contains the results of original research in pure mathematics.
Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics - this journal is a cover-to-cover translation into English of the Teoriya Imovirnostei ta Matematichna Statistika, published by Kiev University dating from 2004.
St. Petersburg Mathematical Journal - this journal is a cover-to-cover translation into English of Algebra i Analiz, published six times a year since 2004 by the mathematics section of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Sugaku Expositions contain translations into English of expository articles from the journal Sugaku, published by Iwanami Shoten, publishers for the Mathematical Society of Japan. Published biannually, each issue of Sugaku Expositions contains several expository articles that provide highly informative accounts of a variety of current areas of research.
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