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New Journal of Physics:
A SPARC ‘Leading Edge’ Journal
John HaynesJournal Publisher, IoP Publishing JISC/CNI Conference; Stratford UK15 June 2000
[email protected], www.iop.org
New Journal of Physics Who needs another journal The story so far How you can support the venture
Who needs another journal? The future is uncertain
Role of E-prints New start-ups, e.g. Journal of High
Energy Physics Current journal model
Author / Reader / Library concerns Parallel world
Transition from print to electronic
NJP: Key benefits High impact and visibility for authors
free access to readers Communicate to wide audience
High quality Broad coverage across all physics Hot topics
Dark Matter, Slow Light, Quantum Computation
‘E-only’ content moving pictures, data, simulation
Progressive copyright policy
NJP: Current Status (I) International reputation and standing
25 Editors IOP and German Physical Society Associate members: Poland, Australia,
The Netherlands, China, Russia SPARC Leading Edge programme
Utah Academic Library Consortium
NJP: Current Status (II) 100 papers submitted 33 papers on-line; 45 rejected
International authorship 9 with multimedia 16 with colour
Immense visibility ca 38,000 full-text downloads! Average downloads per article: >1300 Several articles accessed 2-3000 times Total accesses to njp.org: >250,000
Publication times: shortest 52 days!
NJP: How can you help? Link to NJP (www.njp.org)
Ground-breaking peer reviewed all-electronic journal
Promote to faculty and students As authors and readers Encourage their support of an innovative
and responsible way forward from learned societies at a time of rapid change
Join NJP Follow lead of Utah Academic Library
Consortium
