The electronic journal Homology, Homotopy, and Applications (HHA)
was founded in 1998 by Hvedri Inassaridze, of the Razmadze
Mathematical Institute, Tblisi.  It was announced to this Discussion
Group in Sept 1998, and published its first volume in 1999.
It may be accessed at http://rmi.acnet.ge/hha/

One of us (Carlsson) has served along with Inassaridze as
Editor-in-Chief for several years, while another (Davis)
has just assumed the role of Managing Editor, and the third
(Hovey) has just joined the editorial board.  The editorial
board, which is listed at the above url, consists of 30
mathematicians, broadly based both mathematically and
geographically.  

The journal publishes high-quality refereed papers related
to homology, homotopy, and their applications.  It has
also published several conference proceedings, and is
about to publish the Proceedings of the Conference on
Applications of Algebraic Topology in Computer Science
held at Stanford University in 2001.  All papers can be
accessed at the above url.

One of the purposes of this communication is to encourage
members of this discussion group to submit papers to this
journal.  As you know, the print journals are dominated by
a few publishers.  Most (all?) of these publishers have
stopped traditional copy editing; essentially the only
services they provide are tweaking the TeX file to make it
have the look and feel of the particular journal, and
book-binding. Yet their prices have, if anything, gone up.
Elsevier is a particularly egregious offender in this regard.
Libraries are putting pressure on math departments to cancel
journals in order to save costs.

Electronic journals are free to individuals, and very inexpensive
for libraries.  But they cannot succeed unless they become
known as quality journals, and this cannot happen unless
mathematicians publish quality papers in them.  This means you!

To submit to HHA, you may send your TeX file to any of the editors.
See the above url for more details.

The other purpose of this message is to ask you to encourage
your library to obtain a paid printed subscription to HHA.
The journal is printed by International Press (IP).  At the moment,
our website says that to obtain a print subscription, you
should send e-mail to the IP representative, Hugh Rutledge, for 
information.  Within a few days, we will modify the website
to include specific information, that the price for libraries
for a printed volume is $161, and that this can be accomplished
by e-mail to Rutledge, by mailing to him at International Press,
PO Box 43502, Somerville, MA USA 02143, or by filling out
a form on the website. He will send out a sample print copy of the
journal, if requested. A package of the first four volumes can be 
obtained for $500.

Tne number of library subscribers at this time is embarrassingly
small, although such distinguished institutions as Yale University,
the British Library, sub Goettingen, and Fukuoka University are among
the subscribers.  We need a big
improvement on this to ensure the financial viability of HHA.
Please request that your library subscribe.  We intend to do
so at our universities.

Gunnar Carlsson, gunnar@math.stanford.edu
Don Davis, dmd1@lehigh.edu
Mark Hovey, hovey@picard.math.wesleyan.edu