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Hi all,
We'll be coming to the annual Biophysical Society meeting in San Francisco this weekend. Come and visit us on stand #729 to talk about the benefits of open access to biophysical research and also to grab one of our cool Rubik's cubes. We'll also be twittering away whilst we're there with hashtag #BPS2010 from our new PhysMath Central twitter account, @physmathcentral
We hope to see you there!
Chris, Sally & Harpreet
PhysMath Central
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It has been a busy time for us in the BioMed / Chemistry /PhysMath Central offices recently. There is a major redesign of the sites afoot and the first signs of things to come have just been revealed. The BioMed Central journal Genome Medicine is the first of our journals to have a facelift and be presented to the world in its new guise.
The PhysMath Central journals will follow soon, followed by the rest of the site thereafter. We hope you enjoy our new look and the new functionality which will follow.
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We're here at the XXIV International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies in the CCH Convention Center in Hamburg. Come and visit the PhysMath Central stand on your break for some surprisingly refreshing giveaways!
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We were very pleased to hold the inaugural PhysMath Central Rubik's cube competition at the recent ICPEAC meeting in Kalamazoo. The aim was to solve a PMC-branded Rubik's cube the fastest, and the winner was Allan Landers from Auburn University in Alabama. Here is the happy winner with his solved cube and his prize, an iPod Nano.
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PMC journals selected for indexing
The first journals launched by PhysMath Central, PMC Physics A and PMC Physics B, have both been selected for inclusion in the updated 2009 versions of the CAS and Scopus databases. Congratulations to the editors, authors and reviewers of both journals for managing this so quickly after launch.
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PhysMath Central at ESSCIRC/ESSDERC
A quick reminder that PhysMath Central will be exhibiting at the joint ESSDERC/ESSCIRC conference in Edinburgh next week. We will particularly be promoting the journal PMC Physics B as the ideal place to publish research in many areas of solid-state devices and technologies.
I hope to see you in Edinburgh.
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We had a fun time reading through the entries to our PMC Biophysics T-shirt slogan competition entries. Many thanks to all of you who entered. There were some excellent puns on free-energy barriers, open conformations and a bizarre one suggesting 'denature yourself' (!) but we are happy to announce the winner is....[drumroll].... Paul Jackson with his entry of 'unconstrained'.
We liked this as - apart from it's obvious link to pendant groups being free to wiggle about - it also gets across the idea of unconstrained access to the article and data and also the fact that the author is not constrained by traditions of print journals as they are free to publish as much supporting data, video and applications as they wish. Thus, it was an easy decision in the end.
Sorry to the others, but Paul, your t-shirts will be winging their way to you soon.
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Come and meet us in Edinburgh at ESSDERC & ESSCIRC
PhysMath
Central will be attending and exhibiting at the solid-state devices and ciruits
meeting ESSDERC & ESSCIRC 2008 in Edinburgh this year. If you are at the
conference, which runs from 15-18th September, come and meet us to grab some
freebies and discuss how open access can benefit research in your field. We
would be especially interested to receive papers on these subjects for consideration in PMC Physics B.
Edinburgh- city street by Angelrays
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Why scholarly publishers should blog
Ginny Hendricks writes on the 'Marketing Publishers' blog:
Scholarly publishers should blog for the same community engagement and reputation management reasons as any corporation:
- Open and more frequent dialogue with customers.
- Release news and comment faster.
- Influence perceptions.
- Other influential blogs will link to you.
- You become an authority in your field.
All of which got me thinking, which other publishers blog? Nature, PLoS, BioMed Central. Any others? Is the ethos of open access more in keeping with the openess blogging?
I will also follow Ginny's advice and start blogging again. Sorry for the large gap in postings, but holidays don't take themselves you know.
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Continuing from the great success of the Particle Game, we had an enthusiastic response to the Elements Game from attendees of the APS March Meeting. Congratulations to Hugh Wilson of UC Davis and Saswati Pujari of Northwestern University, who matched up their element cards and won an iPod Shuffle each. Come and visit us at our next conference for your chance to win!
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Meet us at the March APS Meeting
PhysMath Central will be exhibiting at the March APS meeting in New Orleans next month. Come and meet us (on stand 441) and also take part in our exciting 'elements' game where you could win an iPod shuffle or a PhysMath Central T-shirt!
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