Portail Math is produced in collaboration with Mathrice and RNBM. Initiated in 2012 and available online since February 14, 2014, it has since been improved by several major updates.
Since 2022, the CFP operational committee (Co-CFP) has been coordinating requirements and proposals relating to the Portail Math digital library (formerly GT RNBM PortailDoc).
Origin of the project
The French mathematical community expressed its need for long-term access to professional literature on several occasions, notably by submitting two proposals as part of EQUIPEX 2010 and 2011 calls for projects. Although these projects were not selected, the lead agency, Insmi, nevertheless decided in July 2012 to launch a project to create a national mathematics portal allowing access to documentary resources and useful services for researchers in the field by involving all the relevant stakeholders. The guidelines for the Projet de portail national pour les mathématiques, national portal for mathematics project of 16 July 2012 specifies the context, scope, action plan and the related projects.
Purpose of the project
It aims to establish a portal that meets the professional needs of members of the French higher education and research community, by offering a simplified access point to the following:
Project progression
- Steps in the Portail Math project
- Organisation: human resources
- Target audience for the portal: who is it for ?
- Scientific need, stakeholders, current state, features
- Document resources: sheet templates
- The first search modes (portal V1)
- Sets of information that will be accessible (portal V1)
- Hardware architecture and software to get started (portal V1)
- Modifications V1 → V1.1 to be made before opening
- Improvements to portail-math.fr: V1.1 → V1.2
- Proposed architecture for the Math V2 Portal
Project evolution
The Portail Math digital library displays all digital resources reported by librarians on the CFP via GesLic. It displays the list of journals that researchers can access based on the subscriptions taken out by the libraries that manage the resources for the laboratory to which they are affiliated:
- In offline mode, only open access resources are displayed, including zbMATH Open.
- In connected mode, the periods shown are the access periods that individuals are entitled to through their affiliation with their laboratory.
Learn more about the development of the portal and the project partners.
See the documents produced by Mathdoc about the Portail Math project.