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The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and IOP Publishing sign open access agreement
The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSCL) and IOP Publishing (IOP) are delighted to announce the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding to support open access publications for Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) researchers. The Memorandum indicates the commitment of both organisations to work together to create sustainable open access […]
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IOP Publishing journals now indexed in ReadCube
ReadCube press release: IOP Publishing (IOP), one of the world’s largest publishers of scientific information in physics and the related sciences, today announced an agreement with Boston-based publishing technology company ReadCube to increase the discoverability and enhance their articles within the ReadCube web, desktop and mobile environment. Thirty-four journal titles, including the Journal of Physics […]
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Physicists shed light on mysterious tongue condition
Physicists from Israel have shed light on the intricate dynamics underpinning a mysterious tongue condition that has been puzzling the medical community for decades. Known as geographic tongue (GT), the condition affects around two per cent of the population and is characterised by evolving red patches on the surface of the tongue that— as the […]
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For medical physicists and radiologists
The IOP ebooksTM "Meet the author" webinar series gives you the chance to get to know our authors, as well as the research behind their latest book. In our latest webinar, Professor Malcolm Sperrin, Director of Medical Physics, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, talks about his new book, Scientific Basis of the Royal College of […]
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Methods and Applications in Fluorescence indexed in Web of Science
Methods and Applications in Fluorescence will now be indexed in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, and content will appear shortly. Coverage will begin with Volume 1 (2013) and the journal will be included in the 2016 Journal Citation Reports with its first Impact Factor. The journal has also been accepted for inclusion in Scopus. Sharon […]
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Octopus arm inspires future surgical tool
A robotic arm that can bend, stretch and squeeze through cluttered environments has been created by a group of researchers from Italy. Inspired by the eight arms of the octopus, the device has been specifically designed for surgical operations to enable surgeons to easily access remote, confined regions of the body and, once there, manipulate […]
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Reported successes and failures aid hot pursuit of superconductivity
A collaboration of researchers in Japan have reported on four years of extensive research into superconductivity in a new review paper published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.
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Read the IOP Eurovision collection 2015
The 60th edition of the Annual Eurovision song contest is taking place on 23 May in Vienna, Austria. To mark this special event, we have created the IOP Eurovision collection 2015. The collection includes highly cited papers specially selected by our editors for their relevance to the titles of the previous five winning Eurovision songs. […]