What comes first? Publishing business or publishing studies?

The Business of Scientific Publishing

Scientific publishing is a major endeavor of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Although publishing requires substantial resources, it has the potential to generate both reputation and revenue to further the missions of a professional society. The AAPM owns and publishes two journals: Medical Physics and the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (JACMP), which syne...

25 years of regular publishing

25 years of regular publishing Iranian Journal of Physics Research has been publishing since 1996. We are giving a short report on this experience and the progress of IJPR.

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

What academic publishing can do for science?

Open Access Publishing: What Authors Want

Rajiv Nariani and Leila Fernandez are Science Librarians in Steacie Science & Engineering Library at York University; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. The authors would like to commend the York Libraries administration for their wholehearted support of Open Access initiatives at York. © Rajiv Nariani and Leila Fernandez. Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...