Open access Definition and 11 Threads

One obvious disadvantage of Open Access Journals is that you have to pay for it. However, paying would have been worth it if it were to give me something I can cite on my CV. And this brings me to the following question: would citing open access journals on my CV help me at all? In particular, I...

Hello, My name is Muhammad Imron aka imronuke. I am interested in nuclear reactor computation and currently developing open reactor simulator called ADPRES which you can find in the my github repository. Regards,

I'm not sure where to post this, so I figured Academic Guidance is the best fit for the question. Here is their main page: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/galaxiesHere is a paper published in it on the Sagnac effect in the context of relativity...

Is there any website that has a database of physics (or other course) powerpoint slide sets? For example, I am teaching both an introductory physics class, and a separate calc-based physics class of what should be the same general material as the non-calc-based. For the former class I am using...

As a heads up there are, to me, an uncommon number of open access papers in Journal Geophysical Research-Planets. This might be of interest to people who don't subscribe to the journal or don't have access to it in their library...

In terms of quality of work.

Just found this gem: http://www.intechopen.com/books It has multitudes of open access (free) books in the categories of: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities. I searched the forums and didn't come across this being...

Hi there, I'm trying to dip my feet into the worlds of publishing in physics (quantum theory/mathematical physics) and I would like to make sure that it's available for anyone who wants to read it. I know one of the paths many researchers take is that they send their article to a big journal...

"How hard can rocket science be anyway?" Kerbal Space Program is a sandbox type computer game that leans heavily on concepts of physics (don't let that scare you though, you don't need a calculator nor a book of equations to play it. It's ultimately very intuitive). Given the physics nature of...

Interesting article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist It does have a point. Why do academic publishing companies run a monopoly on scientific information when much of it is funded by tax payer dollars?

Since January 2007 with Nobel prize laureate Gerardus ‘t Hooft appointed as editor-in-chief. His first editorial is here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/867288v5118851k7/fulltext.pdf The magazine is here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1572-9516/ The January and February...