The colorful history of one of astronomy’s rarest events — the transit of Venus — was discussed at the recent IAU conference in Beijing, China. Posted by Naomi Pasachoff, September 10, 2012 For more details please follow the link, http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/The-Transit-of-Venus-Deaths-and-Dilemmas-in-History-169181336.html
Wiley announced that starting from January 2013, they will publish the following journals on behalf of the American Geophysical Union (AGU): · Eos · Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems · Geophysical Research Letters · Global Biogeochemical Cycles · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · Journal of Geophysical Research · Paleoceanography · Radio Science · …
In recognition of the 2012 Nobel Prize winners and in celebration of the continuous achievements of the global physics community AIP has decided to make their content free throughout October 2012. Patrons will have online access to all AIP journals and Conference Proceedings back to 1999 during this month. For more information click on the…
There is an interesting news article by R Prasad in Today`s “The Hindu” (Thursday, September 27, 2012) On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind
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
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 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
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 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:…
