About Project Euclid
Project Euclid was developed and deployed by Cornell University Library, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is now managed by Duke University Press. It was originally created to provide a platform for small scholarly publishers of mathematics and statistics journals to move from print to electronic in a cost-effective way.
Through a combination of support by subscribing libraries and participating publishers, over 80% of the journal articles hosted on Project Euclid are openly available.
Our Mission
Project Euclid's mission is to provide powerful, low-cost online hosting and publishing services for theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics scholarship worldwide. As a non-profit community-driven international partnership of academic libraries, independent and society scholarly publishers, and scholars, Project Euclid actively supports broad, sustainable access to this scholarship.
We Value
- Strong independent, society, and small business publishers
- User-friendly, reliable, well-designed online services
- Online services and data standards that improve discoverability
- Long-term preservation of access to scholarship
- Innovative global partnerships and collaborations among publishers, librarians, and scholars
- Not-for-profit, cost-effective, affordable, and sustainable business models
- Widely accessible scholarship
- High quality, curated scholarship
- Community-ownership and operation
Our History
Cornell University Library began developing Project Euclid in 2000, with initial funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In the early days of online scholarly publishing, small publishers suddenly faced new and potentially expensive technical challenges in the production and dissemination of their titles. To meet these new demands, many independent mathematics publishers turned their journals over to large commercial presses, and libraries began to see reduced competition and diversity in scholarly publishing and an increase in subscription prices.
Concerned with these developments, Cornell Library began to explore alternatives to traditional commercial publishing. With Project Euclid, the Library set out to build an online publishing platform that would provide advanced hosting services to publishers who valued their independence and at the same time recognized the need to remain competitive in an increasingly online environment. By pooling investment in technology, Project Euclid offers its partner publishers best-in-class services that are cost effective and affordable.
In 2008, Cornell University Library joined forces with Duke University Press to cooperate and co-manage Project Euclid. Since 2022, Duke University Press has maintained Project Euclid independently, bringing extensive nonprofit publishing skills and perspectives to Project Euclid, which has continued to grow and develop for over twenty years. Today Project Euclid hosts more than 100 publications from over 35 partner publishers worldwide and includes several of the most eminent titles in mathematics and statistics.
