A new Physics World special report examines the challenges for physicist in India The latest special report by Physics World, focuses on physics in India. The report reveals that money is not in short supply for the country`s top researchers, but that India lacks a critical concentration of highly capable scientists who can make…
LONDON: A hand written journal of Vasco da Gama’s first voyage to India, dating back to 1497-1499 that describes how he led the first fleet around Africa to India, arriving in Calicut and starting a maritime route from Portugal to India, changing the course of history of humankind has been included in the most prestigious…
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 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…
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
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…
