More Than a Physics Publisher 2008
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MORE THAN A PHYSICS PUBLISHER 2008 Contact information Europe & Rest of World Customer Services (Electronic Product Support) IOP Publishing Dirac House, Temple Back Bristol BS1 6BE, UK Tel: +44 (0) 117 929 7481 Fax: +44 (0) 117 929 4318 E-mail: [email protected] North & South America IOP Publishing, Inc. The Public Ledger Building, Suite 929 150 South Independence Mall West Philadelphia PA 19106, USA Tel: (215) 627-0880 Fax: (215) 627-0879 E-mail: [email protected] www.iop.org INTRODUCTION AND CONTENTS The Institute of Physics (IOP) is an international What you need, when you need it Editorially, our scope is broad. It begins learned and professional society that supports every with fundamental and applied research aspect of the physical sciences and the people who in the core disciplines of physics. This emphasis is constantly evolving to embrace work in them. Science is our passion – a passion that fast-moving multidisciplinary endeavours we share every day, in print and online, with the including computer science, physics in medicine and biology, nanotechnology scientific community around the world. and environmental science. Beyond our traditional journals Working in partnership programme, we aim to make high-value Magnetic resonance scan of brain and cranium. IOP Publishing is a critical component of IOP, providing the print and online scientific information as readily accessible publications through which leading-edge scientific research is disseminated. as possible via a growing portfolio of community websites, business-to-business We realize that we can’t do this alone, however, and are proud to collaborate magazines, conferences and a multitude of related digital services. From with partners such as the International Atomic Energy Agency, the US Department customizable e-alerts to RSS feeds, we are continually improving our electronic of Energy and CERN, allowing us to publish some of the most important scientific interfaces to make it easier for researchers to find exactly what they need, when research being carried out today. they need it and in the format that suits them. In fact, partnership is very much a defining theme at IOP. We work with the American Scientific publishing is not all that we do. IOP advises government and the private Astronomical Society, Turpion-Moscow and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to sector to help secure the future for physics and related disciplines. IOP supports showcase their journals to a wider international audience, and organizations such as teachers and students in the physical sciences, just as we do physicists in the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications and Electronic all sectors of industry. IOP also raises public awareness of the importance and Information for Libraries to make research available in developing countries. relevance of physics in our everyday lives. At the same time, our publishing activities contribute directly to IOP’s core charitable activities in promoting physics Each year we are dedicated to working with new partners and are constantly forging and physics education. new relationships with other like-minded international organizations. In these ways and more, IOP is an essential partner to the science community. Likewise, our close relationships with information professionals in the library Simply put, we are more than a physics publisher. community are a catalyst for product innovation. More specifically, these links enable us to develop new ways of delivering content to keep pace with the changing needs of our users in academia and industry. Contents Introduction 2–3 Tell the world about your work 4–5 Peer review and readership 6–7 Online communities 8–9 Web services designed for you 10–11 Tools for industry 12–13 Partnering with the library community 14–15 Building global partnerships 16–17 Key facts about IOP 18–19 Publications list 20–21 Addresses and acknowledgements 22–23 A simulated charged current interaction in the Super-Kamiokande detector. Takaaki Kajita 2006 Reports on Progress in Cover illustration: Snapshot of photoelectron density around a hydrogen ion A N Grum-Grzhimailo, A D Kondorskiy Physics 69 1607–1635. and K Bartschat 2006 Journal of Physics B: Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 39 4659–4671. Artistic interpretation by Frédérique Swist. IOP Publishing 3 Tell the world TELL THE WORLD ABOUT YOUR WORK about your work Getting published and telling the world about your research should ’ MEET OUR AUTHORS be straightforward. With IOP as your publishing partner, it is. You can learn more about our authors by We offer a range of value-added services to support you through the reading the interviews in our “60 seconds publication process. Our core values – responsiveness and customer with...” feature at journals.iop.org. Some service – ensure that you get your work in front of the scientific of the authors who have already been community as quickly as possible. featured are pictured below. You can still read their interviews online. The numbers tell their own story. With more than 10 million downloads in over 180 countries from our journal pages, IOP is your guaranteed route to a truly global audience. Dr. Kylie Catchpole University of New South Wales, Australia SEM view of ZnO nanorods and nanoflowers on GaN-based Submitting your paper It’s a win–win scenario: the constructive LED epiwafer H Gao et al 2007 Journal of Physics D: Applied Efficiency, security and peace of mind: IOP’s reports provided by referees help you, the Physics 40 3654–3659. web-based submission service offers all of this authors, to enhance the readability, Professor Masao Washizu The University of Tokyo, Japan and more via a single log-in process. Whether accessibility and, ultimately, the all-round ’ DID YOU KNOW? you want to make revisions, check proofs or impact of your original submissions. As you’d Journal homepages feature more than correspond with the journals publishing team, expect, we maintain comprehensive records the latest cutting-edge articles from our your personal author homepage provides the for all of our referees to ensure consistently journals. Each homepage has tailored Dr. Yuejian Wang Texas Christian University, USA interface for every step of the publishing high standards for peer review across all of content to serve the journals community. process, keeping everything that you need in our journals. Some of the great services* that you may one place. Our PDF build facility means that all not yet have seen include: you need to do is submit and approve your Faster publication Dr. Georg Ehlers • digital archive for every journal Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA manuscript to start the peer-review process We pride ourselves on our rapid publication (in most cases back to volume 1); immediately. times. Online submission procedures have • customizable RSS feeds and e-alerts; more than halved our submit-to-publication • regular free content; For peace of mind, you can track the progress cycle in the past six years. It’s also worth • conference listings; Professor Yuanan Diao University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA of your manuscript from the moment you noting that most journal papers are made • theses repository; submit your article, through the peer-review available on the web in advance of the print • annual highlights – selected by our process, to decision and publication. And version, helping you to put your work in front editors; because your author homepage is secure, you of the community even sooner. • subject forums; Professor Frank E. Fish can be assured that your research, and all of • extensive supplementary data, including West Chester University, USA the communication associated with it, remains Greater impact for your research full colour, simulations, datasets and totally confidential. The 2006 impact factors published by multimedia; Thomson Scientific confirm that authors who • published software archive; Dr. Hajime Ishihara The review process publish their work with IOP are now being cited • the latest news; Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Using the right referee is a crucial part of the more than ever before. The results show that • book reviews; peer-review process. With IOP as your partner, researchers who choose to publish with IOP • interviews with authors; you can rest assured that referee selection is journals are making a significant contribution • lists of board members; Professor Masayoshi Esashi a core competency among our staff editors to the development of knowledge in their field, • full details about submitting your work; Tohoku University, Japan and publishers. To guarantee the quality of as indicated by the number of times their • pricing and ordering information. the work published in IOP journals, each work is cited by their peers. A complete list * Each community is different, so each journal may have a referee is carefully selected for their expertise of Impact Factors is given on page 19. different selection of content. in a given field. “I think you have an outstanding, prompt service that is clear and easy “This is the best service I have received from any publisher!” to use. By far the most efficient and user friendly online author service Mark England,North Dakota State University,USA I have so far encountered.” Victoria Coleman,Electronic Materials Engineering,the Australian National University 4 IOP Publishing IOP Publishing 5 Peer review PEER REVIEW AND READERSHIP and readership If science publishing is about anything, it’s about having your research results Open access seen by as wide an audience as possible. Today, that means much more than There are also three open-access journals putting your work in front of your peers within the scientific community. available as an alternative to the traditional Increasingly, it’s about meaningful exposure with decision makers in industry publishing model. These are New Journal of and government as well. By publishing with IOP your research will be read by the Physics, which has been publishing original research articles in all areas of physics since people who matter most.