Timeline for American Mathematical Monthly reprints, as opposed to preprints, on the arXiv
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12 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Dec 29, 2021 at 19:01 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Have you read the contract? Is it publicly available? | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 19:00 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | Because the MAA chose it that way, they could change their minds. Institut Mittag-Leffler switched from Springer to International Press for publication of Acta and then put their whole back catalog online for free. Which they could do because they owned it. | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:56 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | But you said there is a Taylor & Francis policy upon which this depends, rather than an MAA policy. | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:53 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | I don’t think that company does own the rights. I think the MAA does. | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:50 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | If it is owned by MAA who contracts with that company, then why does that company own the rights? | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:50 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | If it is owned by MAA who contracts with that company, then why does that company own the rights? | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:49 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | . . . . . want to keep it that way in order to rake in the tuition money. | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:49 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | It’s owned by the MAA who contracts to Taylor and Francis for publishing. Acta and Compositio have similar arrangements. This is much better than it being owned by a publisher. | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:49 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | . . . . . . ability of most of the students, but seemingly fail to see that the system encourages lack of ability because it is a good strategy for doing what the students want to do, which is not learning the subject, but getting grades. A few places like the University of Toronto and Macalester College and some of the liberal arts colleges in western Massachusetts are dealing with this issue to some extent. but many many professors of mathematics are blind to it. And probably some want to keep it that way just to rake in paychecks for phony teaching. And some administrators . . . . . . | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:45 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | . . . . encouraging vast numbers of students to take calculus who have earned good grades in the prerequisite course but who are known not to have understood the prerequisite subject matter in a way that is needed to learn first-year calculus in the way contemplated by textbooks and curricula. Instead they just learn algorithms like (d/dx)x^n = nx^{n-1} without ever suspecting that learning mathematics consists of something other than learning to apply memorized algorithms. Mathematicians see that that is all they learn and attribute it to an unfortunate lack of . . . . . . . . | |
| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:41 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | I was not aware until after I posted this that a commercial publisher owned the rights to this. Some mathematicians have realized that certain conflicts between the interests of commercial publishers and those of academia make it better to do things in other ways that that, and so it seems to me one should be wary of such an arrangement. Seemingly few mathematicians have realized this is part of a broader problem of certain kinds of corruption in academia. One other small symptom is the widespread practice of . . . . . . | |
| Dec 26, 2021 at 4:32 | history | answered | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |