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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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Cancer drugs hitch a ride on "smart" gold nanoshells
Nanoparticles capable of delivering drugs to specifically targeted cancer cells have been created by a group of researchers from China. The multifunctional ‘smart’ gold nanoshells could lead to more effective cancer treatments by overcoming a major limitation of modern chemotherapy techniques—the ability to target cancer cells specifically and leave healthy cells untouched. Small peptides […]
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February's Physics World: NSA pursues quantum technology
In this month’s issue of Physics World, Jon Cartwright explains how the revelation that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is developing quantum computers has renewed interest and sparked debate on just how far ahead they are of the world’s major labs looking to develop the same technology. In 2006 the NSA openly announced a […]
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IOP Publishing staff more than double fundraising target for Children's Hospice South West
Staff at IOP Publishing (IOP) have raised £13,447 for their nominated charity of 2013, Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW). The money raised more than doubles IOP’s initial fundraising target of £6,000. A fundraising committee of 10 staff organised a variety of events throughout the year to raise money for the charity. Events included pub quizzes, […]
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Advisory Board member receives Brian Pippard Prize
Professor Robert Hadfield of the University of Glasgow and Advisory Board member of IOP Publishing’s Superconductor Science and Technology, is the winner of the 2013 Brian Pippard Prize. Professor Hadfield was considered by the Institute of Physics superconductivity group’s prize selection panel, alongside a range of other strong contenders for the prize, to have made […]
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November's Physics World: Can an oil bath solve the mysteries of the quantum world?
For the past eight years, two French researchers have been bouncing droplets around a vibrating oil bath and observing their unique behaviour. What sounds like a high-school experiment has in fact provided the first ever evidence that the strange features of the quantum world can be reproduced on a macroscopic scale. Now, many researchers are […]
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‘This month’s articles' policy
In January 2002, IOP Publishing (IOP) opened up access to many current articles for the first thirty days after publication under the heading of ‘This month’s articles’. This was introduced to coincide with the launch of our Electronic Journals platform (the predecessor of IOPscience) to help raise the visibility of new research and attract readers […]
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Water impurities key to an icicle's ripples
A group of physicists from Canada have been growing their own icicles in a lab in the hope of solving a mystery that has, up until now, continued to puzzle scientists. The presence of characteristic ripples along the surface of icicles, which remarkably have the same wavelength no matter how big the icicle or where […]
