EMIS 2000 the European Mathematical information Service and its developments IV Seminario de SINM October 2 - 4, 2000 Bernd Wegner Professor for mathematics at TU Berlin Editor-in-Chief of Zentralblatt Scientific Coordinator of EMIS

EMIS European Mathematical Information Service H Offered by EMS - European Mathematical Society H Server of the EMS H Offered through Zentralblatt MATH / FIZ Karlsruhe H 40 mirrors world-wide H Founded in 1995 HURL

Databases offered through EMIS H MATH(Zentralblatt) H MATHDI (Education in Math.) H COMPUSCIENCE (Informatics) H MPRESS(Preprint index)

The Electronic Library H Journals H Proceedings and Collections of Papers H Monographs H Collected Works H Supervision: EPC-EMS Electronic Publishing Committee of the EMS

Projects H H EULER(access to mathematics in the web) H ERAM(Jahrbuch database, electronic archive for classical math.) H LIMES(European Database in Mathematics)

The concept of ElibEMS H Collect freely accessible electronic publications in mathematics H Mirror electronic journals as provided by the editors H Install electronic versions of printed journals, possibly with a delay compared to the printed version H Only peer-reviewed articles will be accepted H Establish electronic archives of proceedings

The concept of ElibEMS - cont. H improve accessibility by a world-wide system of mirrors of ELibEMS H Mirror electronic journals as provided by the editors H Support the installation and distribution of “electronic only” publications H Guarantee reliable archiving by co-operation with big mathematical libraries (SUB Göttingen, Kroch Library at Cornell)

ELibEMS deliverables H About 40 mathematical journals H Complete texts of the articles in these journals: TEX, Postscript, DVI, PDF (as suggested by the editors) H Links to the database Zentralblatt MATH H Integrated access to these journals through MATH and EULER H Scarcely distributed articles from Proceedings

Future plans for ELibEMS H Improvements of readability by a uniform PDF- offer H Enhanced Standardisation of the offer (identifiers, content of journals’ homepages) H Arrangement of internal links H Hosting more academic and non-profit journals (Project Euclid) H Co-operation with similar offers (partners of Project Euclid)

Projects H H EULER(access to mathematics in the web) H ERAM(Jahrbuch database, electronic archive for classical math.) H LIMES(European Database in Mathematics)

...? User Network OPAC Database Preprints E-Journals WWW- Catalogues

User OPACDatabasePreprintsE-Journals WWW- Catalogues DC EULER Engine Z39.50 WWW

EULER offers an open, high quality portal Hcross collection browsing and searching Hconsolidated hit-list, de-duplication Hintegrated resources Hhomogeneous access to heterogeneous resources Hhigh precision of results Htested incorporation of alien data

EULER offers a European dimension Hco-operation between important content providers over Europe Ha prototype for an exploitable sustainable service Hsolutions for related projects (DESIRE etc.) Hcomparison with other related projects Huser needs evaluations

EULER technological achievements Hcommon metadata profile for distributed resources Hsuccessful application of international standards (DC, Z39.50, http) Hde-duplication identifiers Hmetadata-maker, other technical tools for new data provider

State of the EULER Project Hbeta-version has been tested successfully Hdocumentation for new providers available Hguidelines for users available Hend of the project in September 2000 Hfinal review with best marks Hhigh recognition in the mathematical commuinty

EULER future Htransition to a web service supported by libraries and mathematical societies Hextension of resources with a good coverage of European national libraries Hcombined offer within a consortium Hfollow-up project for economic viability (comercial publishers, charged services) and extension to other sciences

Addresses Prof. Dr. Bernd Wegner Fachbereich Mathematik, TU Berlin, Sekr. MA 8-1 Straße D. 17. Juni 135, D Berlin Editor-in-Chief, Zentralblatt MATH Franklinstr. 11, D Berlin