2023
Innovations in Graph Theory joins centre Mersenne ! This new open access journal is created and run by an international editorial committee. As its name suggests, it is dedicated to graph theory and its interactions with other fields.
Numdam update: more than 70 000 articles are now online ! New additions include years 1935 to 1945 of Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, years 2015 to 2017 of Publications Mathématiques de l’IHÉS, and the 2017 volumes of EDP Sciences. The metadata for Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova is now available for the years 2018 to 2023. Finally, the KBART file has been improved to display the latest volumes / numbers available in Numdam.
The Centre Mersenne team for open scientific publishing are CNRS Cristal Collectif award winners.
Centre Mersenne organises a one-day event dedicated to Open Access Scientific Publishing where it presents different models, particularly in the area of mathematics, with a focus on those implemented in Grenoble.
Volumes of the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées from 1836 (Volume 1, Series 1) to 1934 (Volume 13, Series 9) have been added to Numdam. Years 2002 to 2021 of the journal Comptes Rendus Mathématique have also been added.
2022
Start of the Geodesic project, a digital library which aims at facilitating research and navigation in the open access global mathematical corpus. This project is supported by the the French National Fund for Open Science.
For the fifth anniversary of centre Mersenne, organization of a day focused on new editorial practices at Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) on June 28th.
Acquisition of a scanner for Numdam and digitization of volume 15 (1870) of the 2nd series of the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées.
Partnerships with the French Academy of Sciences around two projects: Semi-automatic translation of a corpus of articles from the Comptes Rendus and MarginaliAS, an enriching environment for the reports of the French Academy of Sciences.
2021
Implementation of the GesLic application to the CFP for the management of licenses subscriptions enabling access to electronic resources to members of the RNBM.
2020
Publishing in diamond open access by centre Mersenne of the Proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences for series in Mathematics, Physics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Geoscience and Biology.
2019
Development of a digital mathematics prototype library (MDML), based on the EuDML initiative.
Launch of three new journals on centre
Mersenne: Annales Henri Lebesgue,Open
Geomechanics and Open Journal of Mathematical
Optimization ; implementation of the OJS for
theAnnales de l’institut Fourier, in remplacement
the RUCHE software ; implementation of the
CLOCKSSarchiving solution .
Numdam is the recipient of the PAM Division Award,
, awarded by the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics
Division (PAM) of the Special Libraries
Association (SLA).
2018
Opening of centre Mersenne, a public infrastructure with diamond open access for scientific publishing, which means free access to articles just published, to all, and free of charge for authors; launch of the Algebraic Combinatorics journal and gradual transfer of the Cedram journals to the Centre Mersenne Centre.
2017
Relocation of the unit within the CETA building (current premises).
All the Cedram journals are now in open access journals.
2015
Incorporation of the directories of laboratories and mathematical libraries into Portail Math.
Annales de l’Institut Fourier are now an in open access journal and the articles are now composed within Cedram ; the LaTeX compliance service is implemented.
2014
The first version of Portail Math is currently online. V1: descriptive sheets of resources and means of access, search by facets; V2: authentication, directory of people, libraries and laboratories, access to documentary resources managed by PLM, mathematics calendar.
Launch of the Journal de l’École Polytechnique, revived in a new series devoted to mathematics, hosting of the Winterbraid Lecture Notes and publication of a first book at Cedram: Le Séminaire de mathématiques 1933-1939; preliminary work for the launching of the SMAI-Journal of Computational Mathematics.
End of use of the RUCHE software for certain of the Cedram journals (except for Annales de l’Institut Fourier), and gradual transfer to OJS.
New CFP interface allowing RNBM members to better manage information on their collection reports and to apply as candidates to manage a Conservation Centre of reviews; in-house tools developed for automatic import of data (PPN from the SUDOC).
2013
Initiation of Phase IV of the Numdam program.
2012
Launching of the Portail Math: ” project for the establishment of a national mathematical portal for accessing documentary resources and meaningful services to the field’s researchers, by connecting all relevant actors “. It replaces the former Portail Documentaire Mathématique. Project led by INSMI with Mathdoc, Mathrice and RNBM.
Active participation in several areas of the BSN (French Digital Scientific Library) under the patronage of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research: Access and hosting (BSN 2), Digitisation (BSN 5), Long-term archiving (BSN 6) and Scientific publishing (BSN 7).
Digitisation of the Revue d’Écologie Alpine and cartographic documents following funding from the Université Joseph Fourier (UJF)’s scientific and technical heritage program.
Total redesign of the CFP: structure of the database, user interface, automatic imports from the Sudoc.
2011
Numdam-Gallica partnership: Numdam’s editorial collections are harvested by the BNF to allow convergence and complementarity of the available documentation.
2009
Start of digitisation of the monographs of the MIR (Mathématiques Informatique Recherche) of the Universities Paris Diderot and Pierre and Marie Curie (NuMIR): access to the full texts limited to members of the RNBM, which concerns out-of-print works of the publishers Springer and Birkhaüser.
2008
CFP changes: cataloguing of journal URLs, extraction of lists for collection reports, specific display programs for the Institut Fourier.
Setting up of the MathematicS in Action journal on Cedram, of the Actes du Séminaire de Théorie spectrale et géométrie, the Actes des rencontres du CIRM and of the cours du CIRM ; expanded offer to the Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux and to the Actes des Journées Équations aux dérivées partielles.
Mathdoc ends its service for the listing of mathematics theses that were defended in France and will use the TEL online theses server developed by the CCSD.
Initiation of Phase III of the Numdam program.
2007
Modular service proposal for journals set up by Cedram: editing assistance, production, electronic distribution, archiving.
2006
Implementation of the digital natives acquisitions to ensure the continuity of the collections; digitization via a service provider for harvesting metadata in Numdam format (DTD Volphys).
Implementation of an OAI server and fine indexing of articles by Google to ensure greater visibility for Numdam; improved full-text and page search features.
2005
Opening of Cedram (Centre for the Publication and Distribution of Academic Mathematical Journals)
Purchase and customisation of RUCHE software to ensure editorial management of Annales de l’Institut Fourier; maintenance and customisation to other relevant journals.
2004
Launch of the mini-DML project to make progress on the implementation of a universal mathematics library. The OAI-PMH aggregator retrieves metadata from approximately fifteen sources and provides a simple search function for easy access to collections located worldwide.
2003
Implementation of the “Mathdoc Newsletter”
On-line publication of Annales de l’Institut Fourier, Journées Équations aux Dérivées Partielles, Publications Mathématiques de l’IHÉS, Bulletin de la SMF and Mémoires de la SMF. Initiation of Phase II of the Numdam program.
First specific software developments for quality control of digitised documents, as well as metadata and author management.
2002
Implementation of the Portail Documentaire Mathématique intended for librarians and mathematicians.
Development of version 1.0 of the ZM-lookup software, allowing to associate an eventual zbMATH record identifier to any bibliographic reference on Numdam.
Signature of an agreement with the BnF to improve access to the mathematical collections: Œuvres complètes de mathématiciens célèbres, Journal des Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, Répertoire bibliographique des sciences mathématiques and the BnF digitised mathematical books.
2001
New version of the CFP (Combined Catalogue of Mathematical Periodicals). MySQL database that can be updated by librarians: 8000 journals, collection reports, open access electronic journals. 21 libraries (RNBM, BnF, INIST, INRIA).
Collaboration between Mathdoc and CCSD about the national grey literature indexes. Collection of metadata of preprints and theses via OAI-PMH for display on HAL and TEL.
Technical assistance to the CIMPA (International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics) for hosting of their web pages.
2000
1998
Technical advice and assistance for producing an electronic version of the Proceedings of the Journées Équations aux Dérivés Partielles.
1997
Implementation of the national grey literature indexes: preprints, theses and accreditations (GREY) on the Mathdoc website. Metadata harvesting from the websites of the math institutes participating in the project (Dublin Core, WAIS)
1996
Development of the European Database Manager for Mathematics (EDBM) query and display software for the zbMATH Open web interface.
Creation of Catalogue Fusionné des Périodiques de Mathématiques, combined catalogue of mathematical periodicals (CFPM), a multi-database query service for journal catalogues in collaboration with the RNBM. The journals from the ISSN database are updated by Mathdoc from the lists sent by the RNBM libraries (PERL program).
1995
Coordination of the Franco-German partnership to establish zbMATH as a genuine bibliographic database dedicated to the international mathematical community, under the patronage of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Heidelberg and the Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ Karlsruhe).
