Impact Factors, Open Access, and 125 Years of Angewandte Chemie
This is an excellent editorial by Peter Golitz in the current issue of ACIE, which is freely available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201206849/pdf
Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation
The Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation (JAI) is an open-access journal, publish papers describing astronomical instruments being proposed, developed, under construction and in use, e.g. on ground-based, airborne, balloon-borne, and space telescopes. JAI will also publish papers that describe algorithmic implementations and techniques, including calibration, that are fundamental elements of instrumentation. JAI will consist of high-quality,…
Philatelic Tribute to Indian Scientists
Philatelic Tribute to Indian Scientists by Seemin Rubab Innumerable postage stamps have been issued over the years depicting scientist and their contributions and also institutions of excellence they helped set up or that were named after them. All of which the country could be truly proud of. Exciting stories can be woven around many scientific…
Inquiries of Heaven
Inquiries of Heaven is the official newspaper of the IAU General Assembly 2012 published by Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics with collaboration of China Features, Amateur Astronomer, Chinese National Astronomy. In order to access the newspaper please follow the link below, www.astronomy2012.org/ih
Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan His LIFE and WORK
Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan His LIFE and WORK by D C V Mallik and S Chatterje, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru University Press (India) Pvt Ltd, 2012 The book speaks more than what the title suggest. This is not only the story of the foremost scientists of India who rose to the top by his merit…
Research Papers Published in August 2012
Full text of the research papers published in August 2012 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Bramich, D. M., Arellano Ferro, A., Figuera Jaimes, R., Giridhar, S, 2012, Investigation of variable star candidates in the globular cluster NGC 5024 (M53), MNRAS, 424, 2722 Goyal, A., Gopal-Krishna., Wiita, P. J., Anupama, G. C.,…
Springer Expands Open Access Program to E-books
Springer announced it has expanded its open access (OA) publishing program by offering a fully open access option for books, which will extend Springer’s established SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journal portfolio, and its Springer Open Choice option. Any electronic version of a SpringerOpen book is fully and immediately open access, and thus freely accessible on…
The SPIE Digital Library new platform
The SPIE Digital Library moved to a new platform. The URL to the SPIE Digital Library homepage, http://SPIEDigitalLibrary.org, will not change. Other landing and article pages will have new URLs; however, permanent redirects will be in place to ensure that previous links and bookmarks will be permanently redirected to the new pages. What`s New: More Content:…
The reasons for author fees by Chris Biemesderfer
The AAS’ business model focuses primarily on two groups of stakeholders in scholarly research: those who produce research articles and those who consume (read) them in the course of their scientific investigations. We tend to label those groups as “authors” and “librarians”—the librarians being proxies for researchers studying the literature—since those are the customers we…