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APS Announces 149 New Outstanding Referees for 2012
February 28, 2012
The editors of the APS journals have selected 149 new Outstanding Referees for 2012, out of more than 60,000 currently active referees. Initiated in 2008, the highly selective Outstanding Referee program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. Selections are based on two decades of records on the number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports. The 2012 honorees come from 31 different countries, with large contingents from the US, Germany, UK, Canada, and France. The decisions were difficult and there are many excellent referees who have yet to be recognized. By means of the program, APS expresses appreciation to all referees, whose efforts in peer review not only keep the standards of the journals at a high level, but in many cases also help authors to improve the quality and readability of their articles—even those that are not published by APS. For more information and a sortable listing of all Outstanding Referees, please visit publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees.
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APS and Universität Würzburg Jointly Announce Appointment of Laurens Molenkamp as Senior Editor, Physical Review B
January 25, 2012
The American Physical Society (APS) and the Universität Würzburg are very pleased to announce jointly that Laurens Molenkamp, Chair for Experimental Physics at Würzburg, has been appointed senior Editor of Physical Review B.
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Staying On Top of Physics: Physics and Focus Merge
October 24, 2011
APS is combining Physical Review Focus with the online journal Physics to offer a single venue for easy access to breaking physics research. Physics will continue to offer in-depth coverage through its Viewpoints, concise summaries via Synopses, and add journalistic science articles in its new Focus section. All articles are freely accessible. Read more about the merger and other changes in the Physics editorial Broadening Our Reach.
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2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Quasicrystals
October 5, 2011
Technion professor Daniel Shechtman’s revolutionary discovery of quasiperiodic crystals (quasicrystals) is the subject of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The research first appeared in the American Physical Society publication Physical Review Letters in 1984.
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Physical Review X publishes its first five papers
August 8, 2011
We are happy to present the first five papers that are published in our new, open access journal, Physical Review X. These papers, together with others that are to be published in the coming weeks into September, will constitute the first issue of the journal. Under Physical Review X's open access publishing model, they are free for you to read and use.
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Samuel A. Goudsmit Papers available online
July 26, 2011
The Niels Bohr Library and Archives is pleased to announce that it has digitized the complete Samuel A. Goudsmit Papers
(1921–1979, 30 linear feet, approximately 67,000 images). The Goudsmit Papers are a major international collection of correspondence, research notebooks, reports, World War II science documents, and other material of Goudsmit, a Dutch physicist who spent most of his career in the US and was involved at the cutting-edge of physics for more than 50 years. Goudsmit became Editor of Physical Review in 1951 and was responsible for launching Physical Review Letters seven years later. In 1967 he was named APS Editor-in-Chief.
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Editorial: Redefining Length
July 11, 2011
A picture is worth 170 words, not one thousand, according to APS's new length scheme that aims to ease the frustrations typically associated with estimating the length of Letters and other short papers.
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Editorial: Two Years of a Reinvigorated PRL
July 8, 2011
Two years have now passed since PRL reinvigorated its standards for publication. By all measures the initiative has been successful, and we thank all authors and referees for their adherence to our more stringent criteria.
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APS Updates all Scanned Archival PDFs in our Physical Review Online Archive
June 6, 2011
The American Physical Society is pleased to announce a refresh of all PDFs contained in the scanned portion of our Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA). APS was one of the first publishers to put our entire backfile online, completing the scanning process in May 2001. In those early days, APS opted to put our content online quickly and in an inexpensive manner that would then allow us to take advantage of any future improvements in technology. We have now completed the next step by partnering with Aquaforest. Using their Autobahn DX conversion software, we have efficiently reprocessed our entire scanned archive of approximately 250,000 articles, further compressing them and adding searchable text. Researchers will find these enhanced PDFs faster to download and much more convenient to navigate and read. APS is committed to ensuring the long-term availability and usability of all of the information that we publish.
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American Physical Society continues as MathJax Supporter
May 13, 2011
The American Physical Society has announced that it will continue its support for the MathJax project for another year. APS was one of first organizations to become a MathJax Supporter, and is now one of the first to renew. The announcement represents an important milestone for MathJax, since support of organizations like APS over time is key to ensuring the project’s long-term success.
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News, Announcements, and Editorials
APS Announces 149 New Outstanding Referees for 2012 (February 28, 2012)
APS and Universität Würzburg Jointly Announce Appointment of Laurens Molenkamp as Senior Editor, Physical Review B (January 25, 2012)
Staying On Top of Physics: Physics and Focus Merge (October 24, 2011)
2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Quasicrystals (October 5, 2011)
Physical Review X publishes its first five papers (August 8, 2011)
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