2022
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Celebrating Black in Physics Week: Physics World and Physics Today co-publish series of essays written by black physicists
Physics World and Physics Today are once again supporting ‘Black in Physics Week’, an annual event which seeks to inspire future Black physicists across the world via the communication of engaging physics research and through enhancing science literacy within the Black community. Throughout the week Physics World and Physics Today will edit and co-publish essays […]
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Celebrating Open Access Week 2022: Open For Climate Justice
This week we celebrate Open Access Week 2022 by focussing on how equal access to science gives researchers from all over the world a chance to work together to find ways to adapt to climate change. In support of this year’s theme of #OpenForClimateJustice, IOP Publishing have brought together research that is related to the UN […]
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Announcing ‘Quantum 2022’ – an international online workshop taking place on 22 and 23 October
Co-organised in collaboration with the World Young Scientist Summit (WYSS), the Chinese Physical Society (CPS) and the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), IOP Publishing is running ‘Quantum 2022’, a a free online workshop for the international quantum science and technology community. Representing a follow-up to the successful ‘Quantum 2020’ virtual conference, ‘Quantum […]
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“Eureka moments in science” are a myth – according to new ebook published today
IOP Publishing has expanded its growing ebook collection today with the publication of ‘Creativity for Scientists and Engineers: A practical guide’ which explores how scientists can enrich their individual and collective creativity, and so generate more, and better, ideas. “Although the ‘Eureka moment’ makes a great story – the genius inventor suddenly magics up a […]
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IOP Publishing expands open access offer to Latin America through unlimited transformative agreement
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has reached an unlimited transformative agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) allowing affiliated researchers to publish their work open access (OA) at no cost to them. The fees for publishing their work openly will be covered centrally by UNAM, a public research university ranked as one of the best […]
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Congratulations to the Nobel Prize in Physics winners
IOP Publishing would like to congratulate Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for winning the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics! The trio have been awarded for their experiments with entangled photons and their work in pioneering quantum information science. Working independently, the three laureates did key experiments that established the quantum property of […]
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IOP Publishing begins open access agreement with the US consortium VIVA
IOP Publishing has reached a transformative agreement with Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium (VIVA). The unlimited ‘Read and Publish’ agreement will enable VIVA affiliated authors to publish their articles Open Access (OA) in the majority of IOPP’s journal portfolio at no additional cost. The agreement is in line with IOPP’s ambition to make universal access to […]
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Can offering choice to researchers reduce researcher bias?
High-quality peer review has never been more important to validate the science we publish. With research integrity regularly hitting the headlines, especially since the COVID pandemic, publishers and reviewers play a pivotal role in ensuring robust, reliable research gets published, and flawed works do not. The backbone for upholding integrity is peer review, where experts in […]
