Committee on
Publishing

CoP

Documents produced by CoP

Below are documents written by CoP on topics of particular interest.

CoPs recommendations as endorsed by the IMU Executive Committee and communicated to the adhering organizations through IMU Circular Letters.

Recent recommendations are:

During its existence, CEIC has also made recommendations on copyright and availability of publications in digital form (2001), retrodigitization (2006), and journal prices (2004), but they are not up-to-date anymore and hence not listed here.

As a historical document of particular relevance, we include here the booklet “Recommendations on Electronic Information and Communication” published in the pioneering time of CEIC at the end of the first four year term in 2002.

The IMU Executive Committee (EC) – on the advice of the IMU Committee on Electronic Information and Communication – created in 2021 an ad hoc Committee on Permissions with the task of preparing a report regarding the following:

  • A recommendation for IMU policy on the time frame for making papers freely available after publication, together with technical details such as licenses.
  • A concrete proposal for how to implement this recommendation, for example by outreach to publishers, with the particular goal of negotiating access to existing back issues.
  • Any additional considerations that may affect the availability of past papers, such as the demise of publishing companies or issues with archiving.

The members of the Committee on Permissions were:

  • Thomas Brennan, chair (Harvard Law School, US),
  • Henry Cohn (US),
  • Samuel Hansen (US),
  • Evelyne Miot (France),
  • Valeria Simoncini (Italy),
  • Stephen Watt (Canada).

The Committee on Permissions met from 2021 to 2024 and submitted its final report to the IMU EC in August 2024. This final report has been endorsed by the IMU EC. Please find the endorsed report below.