Plan for open access to science research

Congressional criticism is mounting against U.S. prosecutors for pursuing prison time for a popular hacker in a case that’s morphed into a posthumous cause celebre. Aaron Swartz, 26, a cofounder of Reddit and an open-Internet advocate, committed suicide in New York on Jan. 11 as a trial loomed involving charges that he had allegedly illegally…

The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes. NASA has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible. Read More:  The Hindu,…

“The Milner Foundation announced on Tuesday that the British cosmologist Stephen Hawking and a team of seven scientists at CERN, the European research center for particle physics, had won a pair of $3-million prizes….”   Source: Nytimes Read more at: www.nytimes.com

Dear Colleagues, The world’s oldest scientific publisher, The Royal Society of London, announced today that they will introduce a new open access peer-reviewed journal that will publish research from across the entire spectrum of science and mathematics. The journal, which is set to launch sometime in autumn 2014, will be known as Royal Society Open…

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New chief for astrophysics institute DHNS, Bengaluru, Oct 16 2019, 00:45am ISTupdated: Oct 16 2019, 02:59am IST Annapurni, S.   Noted scientist Prof Annapurni Subramaniam on Tuesday took over as the Director of the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), a premier national research institute in astrophysics. The autonomous research institute under the administrative control…