Annales Academiae Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. 45. Studia Mathematica 6

Abstract

Annales Academiae Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Mathematica (AAPC SM) has undergone radical changes during the last few months. These changes go in two directions. The first, the most visible one is that we go online. As a matter of fact if you read this, it means that we are already online! The online version of the journal is not just an electronic version of the printed version. All papers accepted for publication will appear in the electronic form immediately after the typesetting procedures. I hope that in case of positive referees reports, between submitting the paper and its appearance online there should pass no more than six months. This way AAPC SM should become an attractive journal as far as the proceeding time is concern. Another advantage of publishing here is a practically unlimited dissemination of the results. At least for the opening period of five years we are about to maintain an open system with all articles available online to everybody at no charge. Depending on the number of accepted papers, at least once a year a printed version of the journal will appear. The second direction of changes is less visible but quite vital to the perspective authors. So far each issue of AAPC SM was edited by a different team. From this issue on the journal has got fixed editors and clear submission procedures. I hope that with this change the journal will become on the one hand more homogeneous as far as the quality of published materials is concerned, and on the other hand it will attract authors and subjects so far not represented here. The journal is open to every branch of pure mathematics and to the entire mathematical community. Jacek Chmieliński and WładysławWilk who joined me in the editorial team prepared the online platform using Open Journal Systems. I would like to take the opportunity to thank them for the great job. At the same time I would like to thank Bogdan Nowecki, the Director of the Institute of Mathematics, as well as Tadeusz Budrewicz, the Rector of the Pedagogical University in Cracow responsible for scientific matters for their continuous support of that idea. Well, here we are.