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The Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing appoint Professor Qi-Kun Xue as chief scientific advisor for China
The Institute of Physics (IOP) and IOP Publishing (IOPP) are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Qi-Kun Xue as chief scientific advisor for China. In the newly created role, Professor Xue will support the IOP and IOPP as they continue to strengthen relationships with the scientific community in China. He will advise on strategic […]
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The Electrochemical Society’s journals go live on IOPscience
The journals of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) are now available on IOP Publishing’s journals platform, IOPscience. The ECS selected IOP Publishing (IOPP) as its new publishing partner in July 2019. In addition to publishing new content in ECS’s flagship journals – Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) and ECS Journal of Solid State Science and […]
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Nano Express – a new open access journal from IOP Publishing
IOP Publishing is announcing Nano Express, a new open access addition to its materials science portfolio, which will compliment Nanotechnology and Nano Futures as a trio of connected titles dedicated to nanoscience. Nano Express will cover all areas of nanoscale science and technology and articles will be free to read. It will be characterised by […]
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Study maps abundance of plastic debris across European and Asian rivers
Rivers in southeast Asia transport more plastic to the ocean than some rivers in Europe, evidence from a new study in Environmental Research Letters suggests. In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Netherlands examined the amounts of floating plastic debris at 24 locations on rivers in seven European and Asian countries. Lead […]
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‘Daring multi-level club solution’ could offer key to combating climate change
‘Climate clubs’ offering membership for sub-national states, rather than just countries, could speed up progress towards a globally-harmonised climate change policy. This is the key finding of a new study by researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain, published today in Environmental Research Letters. The study’s lead author, Nick Martin from UAB, explained: […]
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IOP SciNotes – an innovative new open access journal for short research publications from IOP Publishing
IOP Publishing is introducing IOP SciNotes, a new peer-reviewed, open access journal that will enable researchers across the physical and environmental sciences to publish shorter research results and other related outputs, which may not be suited to the traditional full-length journal article format. With IOP SciNotes, IOP Publishing will increase its support for open, transparent […]
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Jisc and IOP Publishing secure new transitional open access agreement for UK universities
Agreement allows open access publishing in 44 IOPP journals Removes article publication charges for authors Researchers at up to 58 UK universities will soon benefit from a new open access (OA) ‘read and publish’ agreement between Jisc and IOP Publishing (IOPP), a pioneer in open access physics publishing. The four-year agreement begins on January […]
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Energy advances open the door to more aggressive climate policies
An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential, while the models that relate climate science to consequences, choices and policies have understated the […]
