Full text of the research papers published in February 2013 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Chingangbam, P., Park, C., 2013, Residual foreground contamination in the WMAP data and bias in non-Gaussianity estimation, Journal of Cosmology & Astroparticle Physics, 2013, 31 Goswami, A., Aoki, Wako., 2013, SUBARU/HDS Study of HE 1015−2050: Spectral…
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
Dear Friends, The latest issue of Current Science (Vol.104, No.4, pp.403 25th Feb.2013) contains the following editorial which may be of interest to many of us. Open Access: Tearing Down Barriers Read More… With Regards, Christina Birdie
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) supports President Barack Obama’s new policy on “open access,” the idea that published results of taxpayer-funded research should be made freely available on the Internet rather than permanently restricted to journal subscribers or other paying customers. Central to the new policy is the recognition that publishers “provide valuable services, including…
About 14 agencies that will be covered by this mandate will have to decide on the embargo period At last, papers arising from research work funded by tax-payers’ money and published in subscription journals will become open access in about a year after they are published. The latest decision by the Obama Administration will be…
There is a free trial access of Cambridge Journals Online 2012 collection till March 5th 2013. You will have to register and then start using the access. For more details please check the following link, URL:http://blog.journals.cambridge.org/2013/01/free-access-to-all-2012-content-on-cambridge-journals-online/
Full text of the research papers published in January 2013 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Anathpindika, S., 2013, On turbulent fragmentation and the origin of the stellar IMF, New Astronomy, 18, 6 Anupama, G. C., 2013, Recurrent Novae: What Do We Know about Them?, IAUS, 281, 154 Aoki, W., Beers, T….
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…
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…
