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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…

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…

Dear Colleagues, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was awarded jointly to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”. Source:       http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2014/ With Regards, Librarian

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…

Two destructive earthquakes within a week of each other, the first with a 7.5 magnitude on the Iran-Pakistan border, on April 16, and the second measuring 5.6 in eastern Afghanistan last Wednesday, were unsettlingly felt over much of north India, but were geologically unconnected to India’s seismic anatomy. However, the massive tectonic processes intrinsic to…

JSTOR offers free Register & Read program to online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account.   To register, follow the link https://www.jstor.org/action/registration   This program includes approximately 1,200 journals from more than 700 publishers, a subset of the content in JSTOR. Once you’ve you may add the item to…