Subject: for the list: a question for the editors of the new topology 
journal
From: "Nicholas J. Kuhn" <njk4x@cms.mail.virginia.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:42:59 -0500

Here at Virginia, the beginning of the new Journal of Topology has 
stimulated some discussion about both adding and dropping subscriptions to 
the obvious suspects.

Something I have wondered about ... Have the libraries at the schools 
(Stanford, Oxford, etc.) of the editors who resigned from Topology and 
became editors of the Journal of Topology dropped their subscriptions to 
Topology?  (And if so, starting with what issue?)  Some of these schools 
have resources beyond most of us, and it would be a bit "ironic" (or 
substitute a stronger word) if such schools maintained their blanket 
journal coverage, while fighting the bad publishers so publically.  It 
would seem appropriate to have Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, and European 
equivalents, lead the way in dropping overpriced journals  - and thus be 
the first ones to have incomplete collections of major journals.

Other musings ... what does one do about high priced journals that have 
upgraded the quality of their offerings?  Among `mid level' journals, 
Topology and its Applications has done this over the years, as has JPAA.  
Among `high end' journals, Advances in Math is a whole ton more receptive 
to the interests of this list than was the case in the old Rota-fiefdom 
days.

That said, I personally welcome good journals published by the big math 
societies, and am happy to say that U Virginia has had paid subscriptions 
to AGT and GT (+ monographs) since they were offered.

Nick Kuhn