The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (ISSN 1077-8926) is a peer-reviewed academic journal specialising in combinatorial mathematics. Papers published by the journal are available free on the internet without registration.
The journal was founded in 1994 by Herbert Wilf of the University of Pennsylvania and Neil Calkin of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The inspiration for an academic journal hosted on the World Wide Web came from the release of the Mosaic web browser a few months earlier.[1]
The journal was one the first academic journals to not require authors to transfer copyright. Instead, authors grant the journal an irrevocable licence to publish their article and agree to acknowledge the journal in any further publication of the article.[2] This practice has since been adopted by many other journals.[3]