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onclick="javascript:window.location.href='#page';">⇧</div> <div id="body-double"> <div id="page-wrapper"> <div id="page">  <div id="head"> <div id="h1-wrapper"> <h1> <a href="/"> <span><span>MSP</span></span> </a> </h1> </div> <a href="/"> <div id="tagline"> nonprofit scientific publishing </div> </a> <nav id="top-menu"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td > <a href="/publications/main/" class="menu-item" >  Publications  </a> <div class="submenu"> <p> <a href="/publications/main/" class="submenu-item" >  Our Publications  </a> </p> <p> <a href="/publications/journals/" class="submenu-item spaced " >  Journals  </a> </p> <p> <a href="/publications/books/" class="submenu-item " >  Books  </a> </p> <p> <a href="/publications/websites/" class="submenu-item " >  Celebratio Mathematica  </a> </p> <p> <a href="/publications/subs/" class="submenu-item spaced " >  Subscriptions  </a> </p> <p> <a href="/publications/s2o/" class="submenu-item " >  Subscribe to Open  </a> </p> <p> <a 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Opportunities  </a> </p> <p> <a href="/about/privacy/" class="submenu-item " >  Privacy Policy  </a> </p> <p> <a href="/about/contacts/" class="submenu-item spaced " >  Contact Us  </a> </p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </nav> </div>  <div id="content-wrapper"> <div id="content">  <header> <h2 class="pagetitle"> About MSP </h2> <h4> <span class="tagline"> nonprofit publishing, by and for mathematicians </span> </h4> </header>   <nav> <ul class="floatbox global "><li><a href="/editflow/"> EditFlow</a><ul class="flat"><li><a href="/editflow/main/"><span> EditFlow®</span></a></li></ul></li><li><a href="/services/"> Production Services</a><ul class="flat"><li><a href="/services/jprod/"><span> Journal Production</span></a></li><li><a href="/services/main/"><span> EditFlow</span></a></li><li><a href="/services/#proc"><span> Open-Access Proceedings and Monographs</span></a></li></ul></li><li><a href="/publications/websites/"> Web Publications</a><ul class="flat"><li><a href="/publications/websites/#cmath"><span class="websites-title"> Celebratio Mathematica</span></a></li></ul></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/"> Journals</a><ul class="flat"><li><a href="/publications/journals/#ant"><span class="journals-title"> Algebra & Number Theory</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#agt"><span class="journals-title"> Algebraic & Geometric Topology</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#astat"><span class="journals-title"> Algebraic Statistics</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#apde"><span class="journals-title"> Analysis & PDE</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#akt"><span class="journals-title"> Annals of K-Theory</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#cnt"><span class="journals-title"> Combinatorics and Number Theory</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#camcos"><span class="journals-title"> Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#ent"><span class="journals-title"> Essential Number Theory</span> <span class="new">NEW</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#gt"><span class="journals-title"> Geometry & Topology</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#iig"><span class="journals-title"> Innovations in Incidence Geometry — Algebraic, Topological and Combinatorial</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#involve"><span class="journals-title"> Involve, a Journal of Mathematics</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#jomms"><span class="journals-title"> Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#jsag"><span class="journals-title"> Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#memocs"><span class="journals-title"> Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#mt"><span class="journals-title"> Model Theory</span> <span class="new">NEW</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#om"><span class="journals-title"> Orbita Mathematicae</span> <span class="new">NEW</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#pjm"><span class="journals-title"> Pacific Journal of Mathematics</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#pmp"><span class="journals-title"> Probability and Mathematical Physics</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#paa"><span class="journals-title"> Pure and Applied Analysis</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/journals/#tunis"><span class="journals-title"> Tunisian Journal of Mathematics</span></a></li></ul></li><li><a href="/publications/books/"> Books</a><ul class="flat"><li><a href="/publications/books/#obs-6"><span class="books-title"> Motivic Geometry</span> <span class="books-volyear">[OBS 6]</span> <span class="new">NEW</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/books/#obs-5"><span class="books-title"> Gauge Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology: Progress and Interaction</span> <span class="books-volyear">[OBS 5]</span></a></li><li><a href="/publications/books/#obs-4"><span class="books-title"> ANTS XIV: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium <q>(U Auckland, 2020)</q></span> <span class="books-volyear">[OBS 4]</span></a></li></ul></li></ul> </nav> <section id="s11" class="titledbox pushdown " >   <div id="seg-11" class="justifiedtext textbox pushright " >    <p><p> MSP (Mathematical Sciences Publishers) is focused on developing <a href='/editflow/' >software</a> for publishing, and on <a href='/services/' >assisting</a> and creating top-level scientific-research <a href='/publications/journals/' >publications</a>. We publish about 25,000 research pages per year, and we strive to offer the highest quality at the lowest sustainable prices. </div>  </section>   <section id="s642" class="titledbox " >   <div id="seg-642" class="justifiedtext textbox pushright " >   <p><p> We are a scholar-led nonprofit publisher. Without shareholders to pay or a society to fund, MSP keeps every dollar it earns invested in our mission: to serve the math community through high-quality publishing at low prices, and help others do the same. Every page we publish is a page controlled by the math community, not a large commercial interest.   </div>  </section>   <section id="s463" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#s463" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/publications/authquotes/" > Satisfied authors  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span></a></h5></header>   </section>   <section id="s464" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#s464" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/editflow/quotes/" > Satisfied users  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span></a></h5></header>   </section>   <section id="nonprofit" class="titledbox pushdown " > <a href="#nonprofit" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h4> Not for Profit</h4></header>   <div id="seg-44" class="justifiedtext textbox pushright " >    <p><p> We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation, based in Berkeley, California. Scientific publishing should be an industry that helps rather than hinders scholarly activity. High-quality research demands high-quality communication — widely, rapidly and easily accessible to all — and MSP works to facilitate it. </div>  </section>   <section id="mission" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#mission" class="para-selflink" >¶</a> <header><h5><a onclick="CollapseExpand('seg-12');" class="active triangled" > Our mission:  sustaining trusted streams of knowledge  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-play rotate180" id="seg-12-xp" ></span><span class="x1 halflings halflings-play rotate90" id="seg-12-co" style="display:none" ></span></a></h5></header>   <div id="seg-12" class="justifiedtext textbox-hidden " style="display:none;" >    <p>Our mission is to <ul> <li>publish scientific and research literature of the highest quality, both of content and production, at the lowest sustainable prices; <li>facilitate, and help others facilitate, scholarly communication and research; <li>offer an exemplary alternative in journal publishing, aiming to improve the scientific-publishing environment. </ul> </div>  </section>   <section id="s709" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#s709" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/publications/eqaccess/" > Equitable free and discounted access  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span></a></h5></header>   </section>   <section id="s45" class="titledbox pushdown " > <a href="#s45" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h4> Top-Quality Publishing</h4></header>   <div id="seg-45" class="justifiedtext textbox pushright " >    <p><p> We publish scientific and research literature of the highest quality at the lowest sustainable prices, covering mathematics and other selected fields. Our outstanding editorial boards and highly selective peer-review workflows guarantee the impact of the <a href='/publications/' >articles we publish</a>. <p> Top-level research deserves top-level production: we provide the highest quality of mathematically literate copyediting in the industry. Papers are edited for grammar, consistency, and clarity of exposition, with the mathematics laid out at high typesetting standards. </div>  </section>   <section id="s166" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#s166" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/publications/policies/" > For authors:  policies  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span></a></h5></header>   </section>   <section id="s167" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#s167" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/publications/oa/" > MSP’s thoughts and approach to open access  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span></a></h5></header>   </section>   <section id="s13" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#s13" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/publications/ethics/" > Statement on publishing ethics  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span></a></h5></header>   </section>   <section id="s247" class="titledbox pushdown " > <a href="#s247" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h4> Software</h4></header>   <div id="seg-247" class="justifiedtext textbox pushright " >    <p><p> Our dedication to quality is complemented by our bold use of automation and software development, to reduce the costs and increase the efficiency of scientific publishing. </div>  </section>   <section id="s346" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#s346" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/editflow/main/" > EditFlow® — journal management made easy  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span></a></h5></header>   </section>   <section id="s46" class="titledbox pushdown " > <a href="#s46" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h4> Giving Back</h4></header>   <div id="seg-46" class="justifiedtext textbox pushright " >    <p><p> We’re glad to share our expertise and software with editorial boards, scholarly societies, and publishers whose missions are compatible with ours. MSP offers <a href='/services/' >publishing services</a>: superior journal, proceedings and website production and hosting services, as well as a successful software service, <a href='/editflow/' >EditFlow</a>, for managing the editorial workflows of research journals. </div>  </section>   <section id="s253" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#s253" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/coverpage/main/#news" > News about MSP  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span></a></h5></header>   </section>   <section id="board" class="titledbox"> <a href="#board" class="para-selflink" >¶</a> <header> <h3> <a href="/about/board/"> Board of Directors  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span> </a> </h3> <header> <div class="textbox pushright"> <ul class="flat"> <li > <a href="/about/board/#balmer" > Paul Balmer </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#besson" > Gérard Besson </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#gedye" > Richard Gedye </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#hezlet" > Susan Hezlet </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#kirby" > Rob Kirby </a> <span class="job">(founder)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#mazzeo" > Rafe Mazzeo </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#sack" > John Sack </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#slaman" > Ted Slaman </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#sound" > Kannan Soundararajan </a> <span class="job">(chair)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#thompson" > Abby Thompson </a> <span class="job">(treasurer)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#vojta" > Paul Vojta </a> <span class="job">(secretary)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#wood" > Carol Wood </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#ying" > Lexing Ying </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/board/#zworski" > Maciej Zworski </a> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section id="staff" class="titledbox"> <a href="#staff" class="para-selflink" >¶</a> <header> <h3> <a href="/about/staff/"> Staff  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span> </a> </h3> </header> <div class="textbox pushright"> <ul class="flat"> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#armstrong" > Heather Armstrong </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#barnett" > Ian Barnett </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#bourke" > John Bourke </a> <span class="job">(senior editor)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#chastain" > Zara Chastain </a> <span class="job">(data manager)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#cho" > Ravi Cho </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#dyer" > Ramsay Dyer </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#ethier" > Marc Ethier </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#fawcett" > Sunny Fawcett </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#flenner" > Joseph Flenner </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#fox" > Logan Fox </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#habermas" > Derek Habermas </a> <span class="job">(promotion+outreach manager)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#conall" > Conall Hegarty </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#johnson" > Morgan Johnson </a> <span class="job">(marketing communications manager)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#kenny" > Madissen Kenny </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#levy" > Silvio Levy </a> <span class="job">(director of publishing)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#livine" > Cass Livine </a> <span class="job">(lead software engineer)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#mau" > Sikimeti Ma’u </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#monge" > Emily Monge </a> <span class="job">(senior data-integrity specialist)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#newbery" > Sheila Newbery </a> <span class="job">(managing editor, <a href="http://celebratio.org" target="_blank"><i>Celebratio Mathematica</i></a>)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#pierce" > Emmy Pierce </a> <span class="job">(director of outreach)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#sajib" > Qutub Sajib </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#scorpan" > Alex Scorpan </a> <span class="job">(executive director)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#towsley" > Adam Towsley </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#tucker" > Matthew Tucker-Simmons </a> <span class="job">(senior software engineer)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#weaver" > Elizabeth Weaver </a> <span class="job">(senior editor)</span> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#willaford" > Erika Willaford </a> </li> <li > <a href="/about/staff/#williams" > Chris Williams </a> </li> <li>    <q>and others.</q> </li> </ul> </div> </section>   <section id="s208" class="titledbox pushdown pushright " > <a href="#s208" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/about/culture/" > Our work culture  <span class="x1 halflings halflings-menu-right"></span></a></h5></header>   </section>   <section id="s213" class="titledbox pushright " > <a href="#s213" class="para-selflink intext" >¶</a> <header><h5><a href="/about/jobs/" > Work 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