User’s guides are written about published or soon-to-be published mathematical research papers, by their authors, in order to provide meta-data and context for the results. They cover four topics:
Topic 1: Key insights and organizing principles — what is the essence of the paper?
Topic 2: Conceptual metaphors and mental imagery — how should we think about it?
Topic 3: Story of the development — how do you actually get from A to B?
Topic 4: Colloquial summary — how would you explain it to a non-mathematician?
Topics are collaboratively edited and peer-reviewed by the issue’s writers and the Lead Editor, Luke Wolcott. For more information, visit the About page. Questions, comments, and contributions are welcome: email luke.wolcott@lawrence.edu.
CURRENT ISSUE: Volume 1 (October 2015)
Cary Malkiewich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (website)
source paper: Coassembly and the 
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Mona Merling, Johns Hopkins University (website)
source paper: Categorical models for equivariant classifying spaces (arxiv:1201.5178v2)
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David White, Denison University (website)
source paper: Monoidal Bousfield localizations and algebras over operads (arxiv:1404.5197)
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Luke Wolcott, Lawrence University (website)
source paper: Bousfield lattices of non-Noetherian rings: some quotients and products (arxiv:1301.4485)
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Carolyn Yarnall, University of Kentucky (website)
source paper: The slices of 
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UPCOMING ISSUE: Volume 2
The following mathematicians are writing for Volume 2, which will come out Fall 2016.
Mike Catanzaro, Wayne State University
Martin Frankland, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik
Vitaly Lorman, Johns Hopkins University
Kristen Mazur, Elon University
Luke Wolcott, Lawrence University
