Monday, October 31, 2005

Physical Review Special Topics -- Physics Education

Physical Review Special Topics -- Physics Education Research
http://prst-per.aps.org/

The scope of the journal will cover the full range of experimental and theoretical research on the teaching and/or learning of physics. Review articles, replication studies, descriptions of the development and use of new assessment tools, presentation of research techniques, and methodology comparisons/critiques are welcomed.

This journal will be distributed without charge, and financed by publication charges to the authors or to the authors' institutions.

These charges will be made up of two components - a per article charge of $700 to defray the editorial expenses plus a length dependent charge of $80 per 125 lines to defray production and composition expenses.

Chemical Biology Virtual Journal

Chemical Biology Virtual Journal
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/cb/Article.asp?Type=CurrentIssue

The Chemical Biology Virtual Journal provides access to chemical biology literature in fifteen of the RSC's journals.

A selection of the primary research articles are free of charge for one month following publication in an issue.

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Nucleic Acids Research

Nucleic Acids Research
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/

The Caltech Library System is an institutional member of NAR.
This secures substantially discounted publication charges for Caltech author.
Membership for 2006 is £1500 / $2700 / €2250, but will not include print issues.

From the 2006 volume, per article Open Access charges for authors will be:
Member institution - £500 / $950 / €750 (50% discount)
Non-member institution - £1000 / $1900 / €1500
Excess page charges will apply for each page above nine.

Nucleic Acids Symposium Series

Nucleic Acids Symposium Series
http://nass.oxfordjournals.org/

The online edition (v.42, 1999+) is freely available.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/

Christopher Hitchcock and James Woodward are members of the Editorial Board.

Hitchcock, Christopher is the author of 'Probabilistic Causation'

Woodward, James is the author of 'Causation and Manipulability' and
'Scientific Explanation'.

PLOS Biology

PLOS Biology
http://biology.plosjournals.org/

Pamela J. Bjorkman is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Biology.

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry.
http://bjoc.beilstein-journals.org/

Jacqueline K. Barton is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board.

Friday, October 28, 2005

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/1742-6596/1

There are currently 23 volumes of 'open access' conference papers:

Latest published conferences
Vol 24
VI MEXICAN SCHOOL ON GRAVITATION AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS21–27 November 2004, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Vol 23
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (CSDS-2005)4–7 October 2005, Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Vol 22
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HYSTERESIS & MULTI-SCALE ASYMPTOTICS17–21 March 2004, University College Cork, Ireland
Vol 21
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHOTO-INDUCED PHASE TRANSITIONS; COOPERATIVE, NON-LINEAR AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES (PIPT'05)24–28 May 2005, Rennes, France
Vol 20
CORRELATION DYNAMICS IN NUCLEI (CDN05)31 January–4 February 2005, University of Tokyo, Japan