About
The Transactions of the London Mathematical Society is the gold open access journal of the London Mathematical Society.
Publishing high quality articles across the full range of mathematics, the Transactions of the London Mathematical Society has an emphasis on excellent exposition of research which explores the interconnectedness of pure mathematics or extends the boundaries of its applicability.
Articles are published under a Creative Commons licence. The final, typeset Version of Record of each published article is freely available to everyone to read and reuse immediately upon publication, provided the terms of the licence are met.
Not-for-profit publishing
The Transactions of the London Mathematical Society is wholly owned and managed by the London Mathematical Society as one of its charitable activities.
100% of the funds generated by the Society’s publications are reinvested in mathematics, supporting mathematicians and mathematics research in the form of research grants, conference grants, prizes, initiatives for early career researchers, and the promotion of mathematics.
Publishing your research in the Transactions of the London Mathematical Society directly supports the charitable work of the Society.
Submitting to the Transactions
Before submitting an article to the Transactions of the London Mathematical Society, we recommend that authors read the submission guidelines for the Transactions.
All articles published in this journal are peer reviewed. Editors may reject papers without external review. Read our full peer review policy.
If a paper is accepted for publication in the Transactions of the London Mathematical Society, it will be sent to the publisher for typesetting. Find out more about what happens to an article after it is accepted.
Open Access
The Transactions of the London Mathematical Society is a fully gold open access journal.
For all articles published in the Transactions of the London Mathematical Society, the Article Version of Record is freely available to access immediately upon publication. Article re-use rights are governed by the author’s chosen Creative Commons licence.
In many cases, authors qualify for complimentary gold open access publication through an institutional agreement with the publisher. Eligibility is determined by the affiliation of the corresponding author and can be checked on the publisher's website.
If an author does not qualify for complimentary gold open access publication, they will be charged an Article Publication Charge (APC).
If authors do not have funding available to publish, the LMS and Wiley will waive APCs for articles of sufficient quality to warrant publication. This offer may be withdrawn at any time.
See our open access page for more information.
Contact
Submissions
For any queries about submitting to the journal, articles under review, the peer review process or the submission system, contact the LMS team: lmsjournals@lms.ac.uk
Accepted articles
For accepted articles which have not been passed to the publisher for production, contact the LMS team: production@lms.ac.uk
For accepted articles which have been passed to Wiley for production, contact the Wiley team: tlms@wiley.com
Rights and permissions
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All other enquiries
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