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Max Planck Society funding for New Journal of Physics
PR06(06)
Wed, 23 May 2007
In a move to open-up access to scientific research, an initiative announced today will enable German scientists to publish their research free of charge in New Journal of Physics (NJP), the online open-access journal jointly owned by the Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Max Planck Society (MPG), a leading German research organisation, will pay the NJP article publication charge centrally for all of its scientists who submit work to the journal before the end of 2008.
NJP was one of the first open-access, electronic-only journals, publishing original research articles across the whole of physics. Permanently free to read, NJP is funded solely by article publication charges. The journal has grown by more than 900% since 2001 and over 40,000 NJP articles are now downloaded each month. NJP’s official impact factor has risen from 2.480 in 2003 and is currently 3.095.
Ken Lillywhite, journals business director at Institute of Physics Publishing said, “We are delighted to maximize the opportunity for researchers at Max-Planck institutes to benefit from publishing with the journal. This will help NJP establish itself yet further as a premier research journal serving the whole physics community. Receiving the endorsement of a research organisation with the international stature of the Max Planck Society is a key development for the journal’s open-access publishing model.”
Kurt Mehlhorn, vice president of the Max Planck Society said, “According to the Berlin Declaration the MPG advocates the publication of scientific works in journals which are dedicated to open-access. The MPG aims to find solutions that support further development of the existing financial framework of scientific publishing. I am strongly convinced that offering our scientists the opportunity to make their papers open-access will be a success because it provides authors with extra choice and will improve access to published articles. Physicists from the MPG have been engaged in the development of the New Journal of Physics from the very beginning. Now we are happy to support our scientists to publish their results in this established open-access journal.”
Notes to editors:
For further information:
Helen MacBain, press officer,
Institute of Physics,
Telephone 020 7470 4815 or 07946 321473.
E-mail:helen.macbain@iop.org.
New Journal of Physics website - http://www.njp.org
The Berlin declaration, to promote the Internet as a functional tool for the dissemination of scientific knowledge and scientific discussion, can be found at:
http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
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