Burdzy, Krzysztof2005-11-232005-11-232002-05Burdzy, K. (2002). Mathematical articles and bottled water. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 49(5), 541.http://hdl.handle.net/1773/2181Letter to the editor.The system for publishing mathematical articles should be reformed and the new system should resemble, on the economic side, the bottled water industry. My main theses are: (i) the results of the mathematical research should be available to the public just like tap water, (ii) the role of the commercial (and non-commercial) publishers should be to sell an upgraded version of the product ("bottled water"), and (iii) only a coordinated action of big and powerful institutions (i.e., universities and the government) can bring about the change to the system.29918 bytesapplication/pdfen-USpublishing industryArticle