June 2019, Issue 91
Launch
of Physics Open - a broad scope physics open access journal
Elsevier has been getting
ready for a future where gold open access (OA) is bound to grow in importance
and may even become the default business model in academic publishing, at least
for certain countries. Initiatives like the recently presented Plan S, which aims to have all
scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants
published in compliant open access
journals or platforms by January 2020 - show that this landscape could change
rapidly the coming years.
For this reason,
Elsevier is launching a new broader scoped open access journal in physics,
titled Physics Open (PHYSO;
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/physics-open). The novelty behind the concept
of the journal is that the Editorial Board will consist of a mix of a selection
of current subscription journal Editors and new Editors. Appointing existing
Editors from reputable subscription journals ensures a close connection between
the new journal and the associated subscription journals, thereby providing the
journal with some instant credibility and reliability.
For an overview of
the full editorial board, please see here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/physics-open/editorial-board
. For JQSRT, Michael Mishchenko, Pinar Menguc and Iouli Gordon have
accepted a position on board of Physics Open as handling Editor, and
they will continue to stay on board of JQSRT as well.
The journal
is open for submissions from this week onwards. The press release has
just been postedhere:
https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/elsevier-launches-physics-open
Physics Open is
explicitly not intended to be a lower quality, open access cascade
journal for our physics subscription (partner) journals. It will reside next to
these partner journals, with no other intention than offering the option to
publish gold OA for those authors who wish / are required to do so, and
publishing the same quality of articles as our subscription journals do.
An Editor of a
partner journal will be able to transfer papers to Physics
Open through the usual Article Transfer Service when a paper is out of
scope of the partner journal but has yet sufficient quality to be published
in Physics Open, or when the authors wish to use the gold OA option. The
new journal will also be open for direct submissions.
Elsevier offers a
discounted Article Processing Fee for the journal: USD 975 for the first 12
months, USD 1450 for the subsequent 12 months. After that, the full APC of USD
1950 will be charged.
All in all, Physics
Open will cater for the growing gold open access demands, and offer a
solution for authors who want to publish in a reputable journal and gold open
access at the same time.
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APOLO-2019
This is a friendly reminder
that the submission of the abstracts for APOLO-2019 is open till July 1.
All information can
be found at: http://www-loa.univ-lille1.fr/workshops/APOLO-2019/
Note, that the list of invited speaker has been updated.
APOLO-2019 is the 2nd
Conference on "Advancement of POLarimetric
Observations: instruments, calibration, and improved aerosol and cloud
retrievals that will take place on 4-7 November 2019 in Lille, France.
We will be delighted
to see you among speakers and attendees of APOLO-2019.
APOLO Conveners
Committee: Oleg Dubovik, Zhengqiang
Li, Michael Mishchenko, Jerome Riedi, Pierre Tabary, Hal Maring, Bojan Bojkov
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Jobs!
Dear colleagues,
We have currently an open position in EUMETSAT in the Cloud and Aerosol team within the Remote Sensing
Product Division. This is to work on the polarimetric mission 3MI on EPS-SG,
for both level-1 and level-2 aspects. Here is the associated vacancy notice (VN
19/24). https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/AboutUs/Jobs/Vacancies/index.html
Dr. Bertrand Fougnie Remote Sensing Scientist,
Cloud and Aerosol Team Leader,
Remote Sensing Product Division EUMETSAT
Eumetsat-allee 1 https://maps.google.com/?q=Eumetsat-allee+1&entry=gmail&source=g
, D-64295 Darmstadt, Germany
Tel: +49 6151 807-7604
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Two postdoc and one
graduate student position at the University of Jena.
The positions are part of Research Unit on Debris Disks in Planetary
Systems: Understanding Observations with Theory and Laboratory, funded
by the German Research Foundation (DFG). A detailed description of the
positions can be found here: https://www.astro.uni-jena.de/FOR2285
and more details about the postdoc positions are also here: https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/d3026edf
Dr. Alexander V. Krivov
Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory, Friedrich Schiller
University
Schillergaesschen 2-3, 07745 Jena, GERMANY
Tel: +49 3641 947 530 (direct), 526 (secretary) Fax: +49 3641 947 512
krivov@astro.uni-jena.de ,
www.astro.uni-jena.de/~krivov