Srinivasa Buddhudu

Photonics Research Group, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798

^*Corresponding Author. E-mail: ebsrin@ntu.edu.sg

Received: 15 January 2002/ Accepted: 10 May 2002/ Published: 22 August 2002

Over the past several years there have been dramatic changes in the scholarly communication environment with the emergence of the electronic communication, that has revolutionized the scientific journals publication due to the ever increasing demand for technical innovations and scientific contributions in our modern day society. Much emphasis has been placed on the potential and development of electronic format as a medium to provide advantages of ease of production, access and ready availability of data in the form of digitized information on optical or magnetic media for ready use at any point of time from its online availability. The information on electronic publications can be refreshed, edited, transferred, communicated by the internet very quickly. Keeping these advantages in view about the online data, it is considered that still there exists a need for speedy electronic publication of important and interesting research findings pertaining to various fields of both mathematics and physical sciences, therefore a new electronic journal abbreviated as Electron J. Math and Phys. Sci. has now emerged with its first issue which is a peer refereed scientific journal, published online each quarter. The online availability of this journal clearly demonstrates the significant potential importance of a free electronic publishing medium like EJMAPS in the distribution and dissemination of new and vital research results more quickly to the several research groups working actively in those field of interest all over the world. The uniqueness of this journal is the entire process of articles publication is carried out electronically dealing with the manuscript submission, copyright transfer, its fast reviewing and rapid publication upon the careful reviewing by experts in those fields for each of the manuscripts received. Free electronic publications spell out a great impact on science and technology awareness of the global community. Also the online electronic publication of articles emphasizes a great deal of importance of the immediacy of scientific and technical information in all countries with an easy and quick access to the database available at the web address of www.ejmaps.org. This facility provides an immense advantage particularly to the scientists for those who are working in certain places where enough library resources are not available.

We are quite pleased in introducing this first issue of our electronic journal namely EJMAPS and we strongly hope and look forward that it will stimulate more fruitful discussions, interactions and further cooperation amongst the Mathematicians, Physicists and Chemists of various laboratories of the world. We wish you all an enjoyable and quite useful experience with this journal