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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…

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, 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…

Wiley salutes all the researchers in India and as a pay back to the researcher community, announces WILEY DOWNLOAD HUNGAMA Institution wide Free access to Wiley-Blackwell journals in Science & Technology for ENTIRE ONE WEEK ( 20 – 26 August, 2012 )  Highlights  FREE ACCESS to Wiley-Blackwell’s Science & Technology journals for ENTIRE ONE WEEK Download Articles beyond your LICENSED SUBSCRIPTIONS Deep dive…

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

Dear Friends, The latest issue of Current Science (Vol.104, No.4, pp.412, 25th Feb.2013)contains the following news item which may be of interest to many of us. Astrosat: a telescope on a satellite Read More… With Regards, Christina Birdie