New Book: Worlds Beyond Our Own

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…

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Dear Colleagues, IOP Publishing (IOP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are pleased to announce the launch of the Astronomy Image Explorer (AIE). The AIE provides quick and easy access to hundreds of thousands of images, illustrations, graphs, charts, and videos that have been published in peer-reviewed journals and is available free online to scientists…

A clever data project shows the promise of open and freely accessible academic literature. by Alasdair Allan There is a huge debate right now about making academic literature freely accessible and moving toward open access. But what would be possible if people stopped talking about it and just dug in and got on with it?…

Plan for open access to science research:  by Renuka Phadnis   Ever felt frustrated while reading a science research journal online, only to see the message “to continue reading, subscribe now”? That may soon change The Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Biotechnology (DBt) under the Ministry of Science and Technology have…

We all need to make a distinction between freely accessing information that we require to add to our knowledge and using that information for personal gain. Beware of indiscriminate copying in the Open Access environment. Aaron Swartz`s brief life was all about making information free available, but at what cost?… Read more………….. Preserving the Commons…