New journals
20 October 2009
Multi-Science plans new journals
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
physics
Physicists get new research network
2 October 2009
Siân Harris finds out about a new social network to help physicists work together and share information
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
17 September 2009
Journal optimised for display on mobile devices
AIP and Collexis join forces to exploit search and discovery software
3 August 2009
American Institute of Physics selects Collexis as a 'key technology partner' and says new products will follow soon
Finland joins SCOAP3
23 June 2009
The high-energy physics open-access consortium, SCOAP3, has added Finland to its list of member countries
Virtual Journals in Science and Technology
12 March 2009
The website for the Virtual Journals in Science and Technology (VJ) series has been redesigned
Biophysical Reviews
15 January 2009
The International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics and Springer will collaborate on a new journal
Israel joins SCOAP3
21 November 2008
The Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Committee for High Energy
Physics have joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Israel.
Personalising physics publishing with Web 2.0
13 October 2008
Podcasts, blogs, social networks and Second Life...David Robson investigates how physics publishing is reacting to Web 2.0
EEGS Research Collection
9 October 2008
The complete journal and proceedings archives of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society have been added to the SEG Digital Library on AIP's Sitation platform.
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Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
