Dear Colleagues, The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense. The following link of “Nature news” may be interest to many of us, http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763 With Regards, Librarian
Prof. Vinod Krishan (formerly Senior Professor, IIA) has written a book on Plasmas: The First State of Matter and Cambridge University Press has published the book recently. Read more
Dear Colleagues, The world’s oldest scientific publisher, The Royal Society of London, announced today that they will introduce a new open access peer-reviewed journal that will publish research from across the entire spectrum of science and mathematics. The journal, which is set to launch sometime in autumn 2014, will be known as Royal Society Open…
Dear Colleagues, IOP Publishing (IOP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are pleased to announce the launch of the Astronomy Image Explorer (AIE). The AIE provides quick and easy access to hundreds of thousands of images, illustrations, graphs, charts, and videos that have been published in peer-reviewed journals and is available free online to scientists…
Dear Colleagues, Latest News from ORCID! Organizational affiliations now part of ORCID record http://orcid.org/blog/2013/12/09/organizational-affiliations-now-part-orcid-record Some publishers will start asking for an ORCID iD (a unique perpetual author identifier) in early 2014. What is ORCID? ORCID(Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers…
The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes. NASA has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible. Read More: The Hindu,…
Discover is hosting the Comet ISON Photo Contest, together with the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences, and Astronomy magazine. The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide. You can submit images online at www.nsf.gov/comet beginning October 15, 2013, through January 15, 2014. Judges will consider images in three categories; in…
Dear Colleagues, Emerald Publishing has announced complete access to all Emerald eJournals for a month (between November 1 and 30, 2013). This complete access will enable you, to download / read articles that are not part of our current subscription to Emerald eJournals. The following are the link to access the content, http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ …
Dear Colleagues, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and…
