Reflections on Scholarly Publishing

At the 2012 SIAM Annual Meeting in July, over a thousand mathematicians and computational scientists gathered from all over the world in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to discuss the state of the art in a variety of disciplines in the mathematical sciences through invited presentation, prize lectures, minisymposia, and contributed papers and posters. In his Past President's Address, SIAM Past President Douglas Arnold of the University of Minnesota addressed very timely and relevant issues in scholarly publishing, specifically with regard to plagiarism, manipulation of citation statistics as well as ever-increasing costs of journal subscriptions and publisher policies.

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