American Mathematical Society: Open Access Proposal

open access research journals. The proposal has been presented to the Committee on Publications, the Long Range Planning Committee, the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees (ECBT), and the Council. At its November 17meeting, the ECBT recommended that the president appoint an ad hoc committee to advise the Council, Board of Trustees, and the executive director about the proposal and other open access alternatives. The committee members are Matthew Ando, John Ewing, Eric Friedlander, David Goss, Robert Guralnick, Bryna Kra, Donald McClure, and Ronald Stern.The committee welcomes comments, questions, and suggestions about the proposal, which isdescribed in this article. Comments sent to 

OpenAccess@ams.org will be shared with the committee. The committee plans to report to the 

Council and Board of Trustees in mid-March, about a month before the April 20 Council meeting...It is proposed that the AMS establish two new open access journals to start publication in 2014 or 2015. The journals would be managed editorially as companion journals of Proceedings of the AMS (PAMS) and of Transactions of the AMS (TAMS). I shall refer to the new journals as 

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B, and Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Series B, or by the short names Proceedings B and Transactions B. Both of the journals would be supported by Article Processing Charges. The APCs would be 

designed to cover the Society’s costs of publication ..."