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…
SPIE has announced a new program that provides Gold Open Access upon publication for a journal article for which authors or their institutions pay voluntary page charges, beginning in January 2013. Authors will retain copyright under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. The new program covers articles in the SPIE journals: * Optical Engineering * Journal…
Oxford University Press (OUP) and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) announced a new publishing partnership for the Society’s highly cited and internationally prestigious journals. OUP will assume publication of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Geophysical Journal International, and Astronomy & Geophysics from January 2013. Professor…
The Astronomical Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal which publishes papers covering recent research and discoveries in the fields of astronomy and cosmology with the objective to provide a reliable source of information to researchers and professionals using a fair and efficient publishing process. ADS partially indexes articles published in this journal. Authors who would…
A clever data project shows the promise of open and freely accessible academic literature. by Alasdair Allan There is a huge debate right now about making academic literature freely accessible and moving toward open access. But what would be possible if people stopped talking about it and just dug in and got on with it?…
Cambridge University Press has announced that it will become the new home of PASA (Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia) from January 2013. PASA publishes new and significant research in astronomy and astrophysics. PASA covers a wide range of topics within astronomy, including multi-wavelength observations, theoretical modelling, computational astronomy and visualisation. PASA also maintains…
Browsers to books by R. Dinakaran Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia has become a one-stop destination for many people, though there are people who doubt its authenticity as it can be edited by anyone. But any wrong information is almost immediately corrected because of its strong user-base. One drawback about Wikipedia, however, is that it is…
Did ‘Solar Storms’ Cause India’s Massive Blackout? by HEATHER TIMMONS No, we’re not wearing tinfoil hats over here at India Ink — so-called “solar storms,” or magnetic eruptions on the sun’s surface…… Read More…….
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