Volker Mehrmann

The last few years have borne witness to a number of important changes within the scholarly communications sphere that have the potential to radically disrupt research at large, and mathematics in particular.

Researcher and institutional dissatisfaction with traditional journal subscriptions and so-called “Big Deals” have taken the Open Access movement from grassroots activism to politically mandated regulation. The announcement in 2018 of Plan S, an initiative launched by an international consortium of research funders, including the European Commission and the European Research Council, with...

In many European countries, e.g. Germany, there is a strong movement that all research data should be freely available according to the FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable). See https://libereurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/LIBER-FAIR-Data.pdf

This is a major challenge for scientists who produce massive data, e.g. from numerical simulations, but also for mathematical research as a whole. 

How and in which form can we standardize the way to find mathematical formulas or mathematical theorems, when different communities use different terminology for the same...