Monthly Archives: March 2011

Phone-a-referee

The referee reports are in and you’re faced with a familiar situation: they are positive, hooray, but there is an ambiguous suggestion which you don’t quite understand. What follows is a lot of second-guessing, a number of meetings with your co-authors, lengthy editing of the paper to implement whatever you think the referees wanted you […]

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New open-access journals

For those who haven’t seen it yet, there are two new journals, the American Institue of Physics’ (AIP) AIP Advances and American Physical Society’s (APS) Physical Review X (PRX). Both are representative of a recent trend for traditional publishers to move to open access, online-only publishing models. Another example would be Nature Communications, a journal […]

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