LIMES Large Infrastructure in Mathematics
Enhanced Services
Cellule MathDoc : drafts & proposals

Report on national user community
Deliverable to WP2

MathDoc Cell (October 14, 2000)

THE MATHEMATICAL COMMUNITY IN FRANCE (PURE AND APPLIED)
67 Institutions (mainly universities)
120 Mathematics research structures (about 100 research labs and 6 structures having a national role)
62 Mathematics libraries (very large spectrum of sizes)
2800 Teaching & research positions (Universities)
300 Full-time research positions (CNRS)
ZM IN FRANCE
France hosts one of the mirrors of the international access network of ZM, as well as a demo server in Grenoble.

The French community of ZM users includes mathematicians from more than 40 universities. Access is mostly provided by a recently installed national network of 3 mirrors (Grenoble, Marseille, Orsay). Researchers from other scientific communities also benefit from ZM.