Despite a jump in article submissions at the start of the pandemic, most of those increases came from men, a study suggests
Read article: Early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic penalized women in academia
IOP Publishing has recently announced three new open-access journals focussed on enviromental science
Read article: Celebrating Open Access Week 2021, new environmental open-access journals
In this podcast we meet a historian of nuclear weapons and a scholarly publishing expert
Read article: How the US keeps its nuclear secrets and what it reveals, double anonymous peer review boosts inclusion
UK Research and Innovation will mandate that all published papers containing work carried out using UKRI cash must be free to read immediately upon publication
Read article: Researchers and publishers respond to new UK open-access policy
In this podcast we celebrate a pioneer of neutron science
Read article: Balloon-borne telescope will ‘weigh’ the universe, remembering John Enderby
A free online training programme from IOP Publishing enables early-career researchers to gain the skills and confidence they need to submit their first peer review
Read article: Online training attracts new generation of peer reviewers
We also talk about that new particle at CERN in this week’s podcast
Read article: Finding silicon’s Holy Grail at long last, how to recognize and prevent ‘publication misconduct’
Stepping down after more than a decade as boss of IOP Publishing, Steven Hall talks to Matin Durrani about the challenges for scientific publishing
Read article: Steven Hall reflects on the challenges for learned-society publishers
Staff from IOP Publishing mark Chinese New Year with video outlining publishing support for physicists in China
Read article: Happy Chinese New Year
Some 16 societies, including the Institute of Physics, say that quick implementation of the cOAlition S initiative could undermine the viability of hybrid journals
Read article: Physics societies call for sustainable approach to open access
