This project is on indefinite hold. Edits and user registration are now disabled.

EUREKA is a freely-editable source of information on scientific journals, starting with mathematics and physics. We provide easily accessible information on scholarly publishing venues so that the competition among groups and strategies may be a fair one.

We need your help! To get up to speed, start with these:

• What We Can Do About Science Journals
• Scientific Publishing: A Mathematician's Viewpoint
• Free Electronic Math Journals
• The Banff Protocol
• Open Access News
• Create Change
• University Publishing in a Digital Age

Then read some of the news at right. Then, join in and help us out! There's a list below of things you can do. The best way to view the latest discussions in Eureka is to click on Recent changes in the navigation toolbox.

• Google reaches a settlement in a lawsuit over its Book Search feature.
• BioMed Central has been purchased by Springer.
• The NIH public-access policy is being challenged in Congress.
• Learn how to tell when articles you find on Google are being cloaked.
• The Max Planck Society announces that it will pay publication fees when its members publish in PLoS journals.
• Stuart Lewis reports that normal Google search results now include Google Scholar data.
• The AMS journal price survey has recently been updated. See the discussion entry.

Latest Site Developments

• We have started drafting a Charter for Eureka. Thoughtful discussion is welcomed.
• Journal Info templates are now available for use on journal pages. To see examples, see the pages for K-Theory and Experimental Mathematics. For documentation on how this template currently works, and to discuss how it should work and what data should be displayed, go to Template talk:Journal Info Template. Prototype editor templates are also available.
• We'd like to know people's thoughts on what sort of citation index information should be posted on journal pages. Discussion here.

• Adding content. This ranges from filling in editors' names, to adding news about journals, to creating entries about publishers and exposing their sneaky tricks.

• Discussing the basic principles and philosophy of the site. For instance, to what extent should the content in the site behave like data in a database? To discuss this issue, go to Talk:Data Storage.

• Helping out with the technical side. There are many simple things to be done, especially extracting journal data from the relevant websites. See Extracting Data on Journals and the To Do List.

To get started, go to the the discussion page. If you're new to editing wikis, try this. To ask a technical question, go to the Help Desk page.

• Mathematics journals
• Physics journals
• Publishers
• Sneaky tricks
• Open access organizations