The global-village pioneers
Paul Ginsparg, who founded the arXiv e-print archive, recounts the early days of the Web and looks at how it has changed scientific communication
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Blog life: Michael Nielsen
Michael Nielsen looks at science publishing
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Social networking for physicists
A great deal of discussion was devoted to building social networking sites for professionals -- and we were treated to several success stories...
Should we scrap science news?
Here's a statistic for you, taken from a website called Sense About Science...
What’s your Wu index?
New measure aims to improve how scientists are ranked according to their publication record
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Embargoed science
Embargoes may have their faults but they mask wider problems in science communication
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Mind the hack
Do science embargoes benefit or hinder science communication?
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A decade of the New Journal of Physics
So as not to be outdone by the APS, here’s a photo of a cake baked in honour of the 10th anniversary of IOP Publishing’s New Journal of Physics. The first-ever multi-discipline open access...
Happy Birthday, PRL
That’s some cake! Yesterday evening my IOP Publishing colleagues and I managed to blag our way into a posh reception celebrating 50 years of the journal Physical Review Letters. I forgot to take...
Blog lines
Science blogs are a welcome phenomenon, but science journalism is still essential
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