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Walk-in access to high quality academic research available in UK public libraries
Students, independent researchers and small businesses can now access many of the world’s best academic papers across science, technology, medicine and other disciplines through their local libraries. This is the result of a unique collaboration between librarians and publishers, who have made their journal content available for free to UK libraries under a new initiative, […]
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New open access funding pilot for Austria
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian Academic Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich), the Austrian Central Library for Physics at the University of Vienna and IOP Publishing (IOP) have today announced a new pilot project that will provide advance funding for Austrian researchers to publish on a hybrid open access basis in IOP’s subscription journals and […]
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ABSW IOP Student Science Publication Award launched
The IOP Student Science Publication Award, one of the ABSW Science Writers’ Awards, is now open for entry. Launched in 2014, the award, supported by IOP Publishing and the Institute of Physics, recognises the contribution that student publishers make to science communication. The award is open to student journalists who produce a regular science publication […]
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Brain process takes paper shape
A paper-based device that mimics the electrochemical signalling in the human brain has been created by a group of researchers from China. The thin-film transistor (TFT) has been designed to replicate the junction between two neurons, known as a biological synapse, and could become a key component in the development of artificial neural networks, which […]
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New Editor-in-Chief for Plasma Sources Science and Technology
Professor Bill Graham has been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of Plasma Sources Science and Technology (PSST). Professor Graham works at Queen’s University, Belfast, in the School of Mathematics and Physics and Centre for Plasma Physics. He has published more than 150 articles in international refereed journals and over 250 conference proceedings and abstracts. His […]
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IOP Publishing's COUNTER4 reports now available
Following IOP Publishing’s (IOP) compliance with COUNTER’s version 4 release, customers can now view additional compliant usage reports. As well as existing journal reports, IOP customers can also run: Journal Report 1 GOA &emdash; successful Gold Open Access article requests by month and by journal Journal Report 2 &emdash full-text access denials by month, journal and […]
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IOP Publishing teams up with Kudos to help authors raise visibility of their research
IOP Publishing (IOP) is pleased to announce that we will be teaming up with Kudos in 2014 to offer our authors a new way to further raise the visibility of their research. As a result of this partnership, many of IOP’s authors will be invited to use Kudos’ tools to explain their work in “plain […]
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Sea-level rise threatens UNESCO World Heritage sites
Some of the world’s most recognisable and important landmarks could be lost to rising sea-levels if current global warming trends are maintained over the next two millennia. This is according to a new study, published today, 5 March, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, that has calculated the temperature increases at which the 720 […]
