Free access to archived articles of primary mathematics journals
We recognize the unique circumstances of the mathematics community. Mathematicians use and read relatively few articles, but do so very intensively. The community itself is relatively small and generally less well funded than those based around other disciplines. Therefore researchers at certain (especially smaller) institutes don't always have access to key mathematics articles. The actions Elsevier is taking are aimed to support the advancement of the important work in this community.
In May 2012, we made the archives of the primary mathematics journals open and freely available, from four years after publication back to 1995, the year in which we started publishing digitally.
In September 2012, we have gone even further and opened access to all available archived articles, back to Volume 1, Issue 1 (or the first issue available) of each of the primary mathematics journals from 4 years after publication to the 1st issue, which means back to early 1960s for several titles.
| Title |
Year range |
Total nr of Articles freely availablei |
| Advances in Applied Mathematics |
1980-2008 |
> |
1,200 |
| Advances in Mathematics |
1965-2008 |
> |
4,050 |
| Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (C) |
1997-2008 |
> |
600 |
| Annals of Mathematical Logicii |
1970-1982 |
> |
230 |
| Annals of Pure and Applied Logiciii |
1983-2008 |
> |
1,850 |
| Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis |
1993-2008 |
> |
600 |
| Applied Mathematical Modelling |
1976-2008 |
> |
3,650 |
| Applied Mathematics Letters |
1988-2008 |
> |
3,700 |
| Bulletin des sciences mathématiques |
1998-2008 |
> |
550 |
| Computational Geometry |
1991-2008 |
> |
850 |
| Computers & Mathematics with Applications |
1975-2008 |
> |
8,350 |
| Differential Geometry and its Applications |
1991-2008 |
> |
800 |
| Discrete Applied Mathematics |
1979-2008 |
> |
5,250 |
| Discrete Mathematics |
1971-2008 |
> |
11,700 |
| Discrete Optimization |
2004-2008 |
> |
200 |
| European Journal of Combinatorics |
1992-2008 |
> |
1,750 |
| Expositiones Mathematicae |
2001-2008 |
> |
200 |
| Finite Fields and Their Applications |
1995-2008 |
> |
600
|
| General Topology and its Applicationsiv |
1971-1979 |
> |
280 |
| Historia Mathematica |
1974-2008 |
> |
2,500 |
| Indagationes Mathematicaev |
1990-2008 |
> |
800 |
| Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings)vi |
1969-1989 |
> |
1,000 |
| Information and Controlvii |
1957-1986 |
> |
1,900 |
| Information and Computationviii |
1987-2008 |
> |
1,950 |
| International Journal of Approximate Reasoning |
1987-2008 |
> |
1,250 |
| Journal de mathématiques pures et appliquées |
1997-2008 |
> |
700 |
| Journal of Algebra |
1964-2008 |
> |
12,450 |
| Journal of Applied Logic |
2003-2008 |
> |
200 |
| Journal of Approximation Theory |
1968-2008 |
> |
4,300 |
| Journal of Combinatorial Theoryix |
1966-1970 |
> |
430 |
| Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series Ax |
1971-2008 |
> |
3,600 |
| Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series Bxi |
1971-2008 |
> |
2,650 |
| Journal of Complexity |
1985-2008 |
> |
950 |
| Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics |
1975-2008 |
> |
8,150 |
| Journal of Computer and System Sciences |
1967-2008 |
> |
2,400 |
| Journal of Differential Equations |
1965-2008 |
> |
6,000 |
| Journal of Discrete Algorithms |
2003-2008 |
> |
300 |
| Journal of Functional Analysis |
1967-2008 |
> |
5,600 |
| The Journal of Logic Programmingxii |
1984-2008 |
> |
350 |
| The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programmingxiii |
2001-2008 |
> |
270 |
| Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications |
1960-2008 |
> |
19,000 |
| Journal of Multivariate Analysis |
1971-2008 |
> |
2,850 |
| Journal of Number Theory |
1969-2008 |
> |
3,800 |
| Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra |
1971-2008 |
> |
5,150 |
| Journal of Symbolic Computation |
1985-2008 |
> |
1,750 |
| Linear Algebra and its Applications |
1968-2008 |
> |
9,750 |
| Mathematical and Computer Modellingxiv |
1988-2008 |
> |
5,150 |
| Mathematical Modellingxv |
1980-1987 |
> |
600 |
| Science of Computer Programming |
1981-2008 |
> |
1,300 |
| Stochastic Processes and their Applications |
1973-2008 |
> |
3,300 |
| Theoretical Computer Science |
1975-2008 |
> |
8,950 |
| Topologyxvi |
1962-2008 |
> |
1,900 |
| Topology and its Applicationsxvii |
1980-2008 |
> |
4,600 |
iTotal number of articles calculated from 4 years after publication (April 2009 at the time of this calculation) back to Volume 1, issue 1 or the 1st issue available. The numbers exclude editorial board listings, author indexes etc.
ii Continued as Annals of Pure and Applied Logic
iii Formerly known as Annals of Mathematical Logic
iv Continued as Topology and its Applications
v Incorporating Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings)
vi Incorporated into Indagationes Mathematicae
vii Continued as Information and Computation
viii Formerly known as Information and Control
ix Continued as Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A and Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B
x Formerly part of Journal of Combinatorial Theory
xi Formerly part of Journal of Combinatorial Theory
xii Continued as The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming
xiii Formerly known as The Journal of Logic programming
xiv Formerly known as Mathematical Modelling
xv Continued as Mathematical and Computer Modelling
xvi Title discontinued as of 2012
xvii Formerly known as General Topology and its Applications
