About
Designed by Mathdoc, Geodesic is a digital library for the international mathematical community. Geodesic aims to provide a single gateway to a vast corpus of open-access mathematical research documents, with advanced search and navigation features. For each document, Geodesic indicates the link to the full text, thus providing the shortest route between the mathematician and the document she or he is looking for.
For this project, Mathdoc draws on its extensive experience in acquiring, organising and enhancing of metadata for open access mathematical publications. It gained this experience through previous projects creating digital libraries such as Linum for books, MiniDML and MDML for articles and EuDML.
The project consists of creating a digital library of documents:
- in open access, or with a moving wall
- of high quality: the choice of sources harvested to form the Geodesic corpus is made by a scientific committee and/or librarians from the Réseau National des Bibliothèques de Mathématiques, France’s national network of mathematical libraries (RNBM)
The aim is to aggregate content from sources of proven reliability and quality, and to identify new sources of open-access publications. The digital library is currently under development. We are gradually adding new collections of journals, books, seminars and congresses from various sources: the main one is EuDML.
In addition, you can also suggest titles of must-have open access resources for your community to add to Geodesic by writing to contact-geodesic@listes.mathdoc.fr.
This application won the second call for projects of the French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO2).
The members of the Geodesic executive committee are :
- Mathdoc director
- Mathdoc scientific advisors
- Mathdoc documentary information systems officer
- Members of the RNBM strategic committee
- Project coordinator