Monthly Archives: February 2011

American Physical Society offers Open Access option to authors

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“ APS announces new alter­na­tive for Phys­i­cal Review jour­nal authors to pay article-processing charges — 16 Feb 2011

The Amer­i­can Phys­i­cal Soci­ety has announced that as of Feb­ru­ary 15, 2011, authors in most Phys­i­cal Review jour­nals will have a new alter­na­tive to pay an article-processing charge whereby their accepted man­u­scripts will be avail­able barrier-free and open access on pub­li­ca­tion. These man­u­scripts will be pub­lished under the terms of the Cre­ative Com­mons Attri­bu­tion 3.0 License (CC-BY). The most per­mis­sive of the CC licenses, CC-BY grants authors and oth­ers the right to copy, dis­trib­ute, trans­mit, and adapt the work, pro­vided that proper credit is given. This new alter­na­tive is in addi­tion to tra­di­tional subscription-funded pub­li­ca­tion. Authors may choose one or the other for their accepted papers.

The new article-processing charges, which will cover all costs and pro­vide a sus­tain­able fund­ing model, have been set at $1700 for papers in the Phys­i­cal Review and $2700 for those in Phys­i­cal Review Let­ters. The result­ing open access arti­cles will appear along­side and mixed in with subscription-funded arti­cles, con­vert­ing these jour­nals into ‘hybrid’ open access jour­nals. Rev­enue from the article-processing charges will decrease the need for sub­scrip­tion income and help to keep the APS sub­scrip­tion price-per-article among the low­est of any physics journals.

Also as of Feb­ru­ary 15, Phys­i­cal Review Spe­cial Top­ics — Accel­er­a­tors and Beams (PRST-AB) and Phys­i­cal Review Spe­cial Top­ics — Physics Edu­ca­tion Research (PRST-PER) will have their full archives and all future papers made avail­able under the CC-BY license, thereby con­vert­ing both of these jour­nals to ‘gold’ open access jour­nals. PRST-PER’s publication-charge scheme has been realigned with the new pro­gramme. PRST-AB will con­tinue to be funded by its spon­sors. Finally, APS’s Free to Read pro­gram will be phased out, and all of these papers cov­ered by the CC-BY license.

These devel­op­ments for exist­ing APS jour­nals fol­low the announce­ment in Jan­u­ary of a new jour­nal, Phys­i­cal Review X (PRX), an online-only, fully open access, pri­mary research jour­nal cov­er­ing all of physics and its appli­ca­tions to related fields.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter 2/16/11

Cell Press wins “Article of the Future” Award

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 “Cell Press wins PROSE Award for Arti­cle of the Future — 09 Feb 2011

Cell Press, an imprint of STM pub­lisher Else­vier, has announced that ‘Arti­cle of the Future’ is the recip­i­ent of this year’s PROSE Award for Excel­lence in Bio­log­i­cal and Life Sci­ences, pre­sented by the Pro­fes­sional and Schol­arly Pub­lish­ing (PSP) Divi­sion of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­i­can Pub­lish­ers (AAP).

In Jan­u­ary 2010, Cell Press launched a new for­mat for the online pre­sen­ta­tion of research arti­cles that breaks free from the restraints of hard­copy — ‘Arti­cle of the Future’. This new, more inte­grated and linked arti­cle for­mat, allows each reader to cre­ate a per­son­alised path through the article’s con­tent based on his or her own inter­ests and needs.

This year’s win­ners were deter­mined by a dis­tin­guished panel of 16 PROSE judges, out of a record-breaking 491 entries — more than ever before in its 35-year his­tory — from more than 60 pro­fes­sional and schol­arly pub­lish­ers across the country.

Devel­oped in col­lab­o­ra­tion with authors and read­ers, ‘Arti­cle of the Future’ reflects Elsevier’s and Cell Press’ ongo­ing com­mit­ment to evolve the con­cept of a sci­en­tific pub­li­ca­tion in con­junc­tion with the devel­op­ment of new tech­nolo­gies and functionalities.”

source:   Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Feb. 9, 2011

Science powerhouses around the globe

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“Glob­al­iz­ing Sci­ence” by Tom Price, Jan. 28, 2011

“Are tra­di­tional sci­en­tific pow­er­houses los­ing their edge?

The United States, Europe and Japan are begin­ning to lose their tra­di­tional dom­i­nance in sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy — not because they are doing less, but because the rest of the world is doing more. China, India, South­east Asia, South Korea and Tai­wan have all increased their share of patents, schol­arly sci­en­tific arti­cles, research-and-development spend­ing and researchers, while the share held by the United States, Euro­pean nations and Japan has declined. As devel­op­ing coun­tries mount their own research enter­prises, the world of high tech­nol­ogy is being trans­formed. China last year unveiled the world’s fastest super­com­puter, a dis­tinc­tion that had belonged to the United States and Japan. Inter­na­tional sci­en­tific col­lab­o­ra­tions are on the upswing, West­ern uni­ver­si­ties are build­ing branch cam­puses over­seas, and multi­na­tional cor­po­ra­tions are locat­ing their research, devel­op­ment and high-tech man­u­fac­tur­ing oper­a­tions abroad. Most experts say tra­di­tional sci­ence pow­er­houses won’t be replaced any­time soon by rapidly devel­op­ing coun­tries such as India and China, how­ever, in part because those coun­tries’ edu­ca­tional sys­tems don’t yet nur­ture innovation.”

Source:  CQ Global Researcher, CQ Researcher  Alert, 2/3/11 

Peer review — an inquiry by the UK’s House of Commons

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“The Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy Com­mit­tee in the UK’s House of Com­mons recently launched an inquiry into peer review. It invites evi­dence on the oper­a­tion and effec­tive­ness of the peer review process used to exam­ine and val­i­date sci­en­tific results and papers prior to publication.”

 

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From (CHMINF-L) Bill Town at Kilmorie.com

and from Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter 2/1/11

http://www.knowledgespeak.com/newsArchieveviewdtl.asp?pickUpID=12183&pickUpBatch=1619#12183