An overview of  recent activities in the field of electronic information and communication in Mathematics in Germany is given in this talk.
Several  projects in electronic information and communication (in Mathematics) were started during
the last years. The common objective of the projects is to develop a new electronic user driven information system for Mathematics that is based  on the activities of the scientific community and  of information  providers such as libraries, scientific centers of specialiced information and publishing houses. Five projects will be considered in detail

• the project Math-Net. The aim is to built up be  a distributed system of  servers of German mathematical departments.  Nine mathematical departments of  universities and research institutes are involved in the project.

The following  questions have to be solved:
What information should be the content of the department servers?
How should the servers be organized and strucurized?
How could a  user-friendly access to the informations like?
One of the basic  concepts of  Math-Net is the use of homogeneous metadadata  (on the Dublin Core standard). Internet  tools such as  Harvest are used to collect und summarize  the information available.
For example,  the University of Osnabrueck has developed a prototype for a German preprint catalogue in Mathematics.
• the project Math-Bib-Net. Naturally  mathematical departments and libraries work on different tasks in electronic publishing. What are the specific ones for each of them? Further there should be developed models for the cooperation and the workflow between departments and libraries.
• the EMIS  server (the European Mathematical Information System). EMIS offers more than 20 mathematical journals  and conferences for free in the net at present.  What about  the future of such a service?
• the EULER project. This project, sponsored by the European Union, aims at  providing a fast and one-stop way access to different relevant information sources of libraries and information centers such as OPACs, databases, ....  But the user want to have  to the information. Therefore this project will develop new tools  concerning metadata access and Z.39.50.
• the project JFM. The aim is to  built up a fulltext server of important mathematical publications during 1868-1943 with  a database as a guide to the fulltext.

The first step is the digitalization of the first reviewing journal in Mathematics  (the "Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik" (1868-1943)). Simultaneously important mathematical publications will bescanned and made publicly available.
The scientists can use the archive by searching or navigating the database.