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NOTE TO U.K. AUTHORSThis journal is compliant with the RCUK (Research Councils of the United Kingdom) Policy on Access to Research Outputs. Some U.K. universities are using the SHERPA database to decide on journal compliance, but that database does not reflect the true position regarding copyright on LMS journals, and U.K. authors should refer directly to our copyright policy and the new RCUK guidance. We are working with our publishing partners to get the SHERPA database corrected. |
Aims and Scope
Transactions of the London Mathematical Society is a new fully open access journal that covers the same subjects as the Bulletin, Journal and Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society with whom it shares the LMS Editorial Board. It has a wide scope which ranges from number theory to functional analysis and from quantum field theory to topology. The journal is peer reviewed, copy-edited and typeset to the same high standard as the other LMS titles.
Purpose
This purely open access journal provides a place for authors whose funders, such as those institutions who have signed the 'Compact for Open Access Equity', insist that the papers they fund may only be published in purely open access journals. This would exclude being published in the Bulletin, Journal or Proceedings of the LMS which are 'hybrid journals' (i.e. they offer standard subscription access as default, with a paid open access as an option).
The policy of the London Mathematical Society is to provide as wide and varied a service as possible to the whole mathematics community and we believe that open access is here to stay and we must work with it in all its forms. By launching the journal, the LMS is not promoting any particular cause and is not advocating one publishing payment model over another. The purpose of setting up the Transactions of the LMS is to complete a comprehensive range of options to all mathematicians: in particular to provide a service to those whose funders are requiring them to publish in open access journals. Read more in the journal's Launch Statement.
The journal is funded by Article Processing Charges (APCs), payable by the authors with money from their institution or funder. It is not expected that authors will pay the fees themselves, and LMS policy is that anyone without funds is asked to submit instead to one of the sister journals (Bulletin, Journal or Proceedings).
Guidelines for submission
Papers can be submitted electronically; see here for details.
When preparing the paper for submission, consider using lms.cls. Upon acceptance, authors will agree to sign the publishing agreement. See the sample licence form.
Transactions of the LMS Online
hosted by Oxford University Press / Highwire.
Further details
The Transactions of the London Mathematical Society was launched in March 2013. It is published in one volume per year. The journal is owned by the London Mathematical Society and is typeset and distributed on our behalf by Oxford University Press.
The Transactions provides enhanced online functionality including MathJax, and welcomes colour images, embedded animated images, additional materials and video links.
If you have further enquiries about the journal, please contact Susan Hezlet, the LMS Publisher, at hezlet@lms.ac.uk.
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