If you are an Editor of a mathematics journal and curious about the process of moving from one publisher to another, then the LMS Publisher will be happy to hear from you. Please contact Dr Susan Hezlet, for further information.

Compositio Mathematica

ISSN 0010-437X

Compositio Mathematica

Editors: S J Edixhoven (Leiden), B J J Moonen (Amsterdam)

Since January 2004, the journal Compositio Mathematica has been published by the London Mathematical Society on behalf of its owners, the Foundation Compositio Mathematica. The Foundation is based in the Netherlands and its Board members are all mathematicians. The journal goes back to 1934 when L.E.J. Brouwer, expelled from the editorial board of Mathematische Annalen by Hilbert, founded his own journal. The aim of the journal is to publish first-class mathematical research papers, and during the last 25 years it has earned an excellent name. By tradition the journal focuses on papers in the mainstream of pure mathematics and includes the fields of algebra, number theory, topology, algebraic and analytic geometry and geometric analysis.

Through the years the journal has been published by Dutch publishers, and in recent years Kluwer Academic Publishers took care of this, though the ownership of the journal remained with the Foundation. Alarmed by rising prices the Foundation has changed policy, and now the LMS manages the journal on its behalf but without taking on ownership of the journal. There is no change to the editorial policy or to the extent of the mathematics published in the journal, but there has been a change of format to a larger (A4) size with about 272 pp per issue. It is published in one volume of six issues per year.

Prices for subscriptions to the 2004 volume were a third less than those for the 2003 volumes published by Kluwer. Since then, the increase in prices have been very modest and negative in one case. We have kept to the original intention that the price reduction would not be a one-off introductory offer, and this is a permanent change to a lower pricing policy. The journal is distributed via Cambridge University Press.

With this notice, we hope to persuade you to pass on the information to your library committees and to support this move to lower prices and learned-society publishing by taking up new subscriptions. We have bought the electronic archive of papers dating back to 1997 from Kluwer and these are now available to subscribers. This will provide continuity for libraries that have cancelled their subscriptions in recent years if they now resubscribe.

Mathematicians are also encouraged to submit good papers to the journal.

Information about the aims and scope of the journal, the Editorial Board and the procedure for submission of papers can all be found via the Foundation’s new website at http://www.compositio.nl.

Library prices for Volume 142 (2006): €1200; £780; US$1285.

Correspondence concerning library subscriptions and inspection copies should be sent to: Journals Subscription Manager, Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK. Correspondence from the USA and Canada should be sent to: The Journals Department, Cambridge University Press, 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011- 4211, USA.

Compositio Mathematica