The SCOAP3 consortium, which is pushing for open access to published high-energy physics research, has announced new partners.
GWLA, the Great Western Library Alliance, has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of 18 of its members.
BioMed Central is launching BMC Medical Physics, which will publish research on the latest advances in medical physics.
PhysMath Central has struck membership agreements with the CERN and DESY high-energy physics laboratories.
Taylor & Francis has digitised Physics content from 1996 back to the very first volume of each journal. The Online Archive comprises over 20 long-standing peer reviewed titles.
Nature Photonics is a new monthly journal dedicated to photonics and optoelectronics. Nature Photonics will publish top-quality, peer-reviewed research in all areas of light generation, manipulation and detection.
Wiley-VCH has launched physica status solidi RRL – Rapid Research Letters, the latest member of the journals cluster physica status solidi.
HFSP Publishing is launching the HFSP Journal, Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research in the Life Sciences to foster communication between scientists publishing innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences.
Springer and the Nano Research Society have announced a new partnership to publish Nanoscale Research Letters (NRL), one of the first nanotechnology journals from a major publisher to publish articles with open access.
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
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Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
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Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
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
