Physics Library News

Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP) is an international journal that publishes articles on theoretical and experimental physics. PTEP is the successor to Progress of Theoretical Physics (PTP), which terminated in December 2012 and merged into PTEP in January 2013. PTEP is a fully open access, online-only journal published by the Physical Society of Japan.

Nature Special Issue on the Future of Publishing

v.495 (no. 7442) March 28, 2013 "This special issue of Nature looks at the transformation taking place in scientific publishing. A News Feature weighs claims that online, author-pays publishing can drastically cut costs, and several authors discuss how they make open-access publishing work for them. The special also looks at broader aspects of publishing, including the idea that the concepts of journal and article are being superseded by real-time filtering algorithms and what the future holds for libraries or their virtual successors."

Elsevier Electronic Journal Backfiles

The following electronic journal backfiles have recently been added to the library catalog:

• Advances in Applied Mathematics, 1980-1994
• Journal of Geometry and Physics, 1984-1994
• Reports on Mathematical Physics, 1970-1994

SpringerPlus

SpringerPlus is a a peer-reviewed, open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach covering all areas of science, technology, engineering, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. Submissions are handled by an interdisciplinary, international board of academic editors. This interdisciplinary, fully open access journal is now indexed by PubMed Central and Scopus®. SpringerPlus is part of SpringerOpen, the publisher’s portfolio of over 120 open access journals across all areas of science, 14 of which already have an impact factor.

APS Mobile

Wish you could read Physical Review with your Sunday morning coffee or while at the March Meeting? Now you can conveniently access APS journals from home, on mobile devices, or while traveling by linking your institution’s subscriptions to your personal APS Journal Account. Create a free account and Go Mobile!

New Electronic Journal Archive Access

The Libraries have recently purchased access to a few journal archive collections from Springer.  The following journals are a sampling of what is now available electronically.

• Advances in Computational Mathematics, 02/28/1993 - 12/31/1996
• Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 11/01/1980 - 12/31/1996
• Archives for Meteorology, Geophysics and Bioclimatology. Series A. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 1985 - 1986
• Archives for Meteorology, Geophysics, and Bioclimatology. Series A, Meteorology and Geophysics, 1981 - 1985
• Biophysik, 03/01/1963 - 1973
• Bulletin on General Relativity and Gravitation, 04/01/1962 - 09/30/1969
• Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 03/06/1939 - 1972
• Communications in Mathematical Physics, 03/01/1965 - 12/31/1996
• Foundations of Physics Letters, 03/30/1988 - 12/31/1996
• General Relativity and Gravitation, 03/30/1970 - 12/31/1996
• International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 05/21/1968 - 12/31/1996
• Journal of Statistical Physics, 03/01/1969 - 12/31/1996
• Letters in Mathematical Physics, 12/01/1975 - 12/31/1996
• Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 1986 - 1996
• Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 03/01/1977 - 1996
• Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 10/01/1969 - 12/31/1996

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters

We now have access to the electronic journal Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters.

http://link.aip.org/link/?TAMLBX

Please report E-Journal access problems promptly!

This is the time of year when we lose our online access to a few titles; which titles is unpredictable of course. The sooner we can report these issues the sooner they can be resolved. To report problems, please just email Alison or you can use the EJ problem report form if you prefer. Thank you.

Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing

Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint server arXiv. The project was publicly revealed in a blog post by Tim Gowers, a Fields Medal winner and mathematician at the University of Cambridge, UK.  Read more.

Publishers See Pitfalls to Open Access

From the October 2012 issue of APS News, APS has a good article on open access publishing.