New Book: Worlds Beyond Our Own

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…

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…….

  To address the pressing need to improve the ways in which the scientific research output is evaluated by academic institutions, funding agencies etc.., Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) developed a set of recommendations.   Read More    

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, A multidisciplinary repository service ZENODO which facilitates the visibility of research results (data and publications) that are not part of institutional repository has been created and maintained by the European Commission’s OpenAIREplus project. This subject specific repository is hosted online at CERN, Switzerland. Read more on ZENODO here. With Regards, Christina Birdie

Dear Colleagues, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and…