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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 […]
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IOP Publishing partners with ChronosHub to simplify OA publishing
IOP Publishing (IOPP) announces today a new collaboration with ChronosHub, a platform that streamlines the open access publishing workflow to unburden researchers. The initial phase of the collaboration includes a free-to-use IOPP branded Journal Finder, which enables authors to easily check if the IOPP journal they have chosen to publish their work in complies with […]
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Refreezing poles feasible and cheap, new study finds
The poles are warming several times faster than the global average, causing record smashing heatwaves that were reported earlier this year in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Melting ice and collapsing glaciers at high latitudes would accelerate sea level rise around the planet. Fortunately, refreezing the poles by reducing incoming sunlight would be both feasible […]
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Most Precise Test of General Relativity’s Weak Equivalence Principle published
In new studies published in Physical Review Letters and a special issue of IOP Publishing’s Classical and Quantum Gravity journal on September 14, a team of researchers present the most precise test yet of the Weak Equivalence Principle, a key component of the theory of general relativity. The report describes the final results from the […]
