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The Low-down on the LHC Boson
Although it’s a little late I thought I’d just put up a brief post to draw your attention to the news that a couple of technical papers have appeared on the arXiv giving updated details of the recent...
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Particle physics volunteers to be fleeced….
I heard the news yesterday that a body called the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has arranged a deal whereby virtually all articles in particle physics...
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At the Mountains of Madness
Well, I don’t know whether it is some sort of Hallowe’en skit or what, but the estimable arXiv has certainly served up something unusual today, in the form of a paper by one Benjamin K. Tippett with...
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A Name for Open Astrophysics?
Regular readers of this blog may recall that while ago I posted an item in which I suggested setting up The Open Journal of Astrophysics. The motivation behind this was to demonstrate that it is...
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The Art of the Abstract
I’m one of those old-fashioned types who still gets an email from the arXiv every morning notifying me of the latest contributions and listing their abstracts. I still prefer to get my daily update...
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Simulations and False Assumptions
Just time for an afternoon quickie! I saw this abstract by Smith et al. on the arXiv today: Future large-scale structure surveys of the Universe will aim to constrain the cosmological model and the...
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Why I've also joined the good guys
Reblogged from Gowers's Weblog: For some months now I have known of a very promising initiative that until recently I have been asked not to publicize too widely, because the people in charge of it...
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Academic Publishing – added cost is not added value
I was having a quick plough through the evidence submitted to the recent House of Lords enquiry into Open Access and found the following interesting exchange relating to the arXiv. The italics in the...
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Open Journal of Astrophysics Revived
Regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Bonkers) may recall that while ago I posted an item in which I suggested setting up The Open Journal of Astrophysics. The motivation behind this was to...
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Open Access Repositories should be based on Subject, not Institution
Just when we thought that the powers that be might be starting to see the light on Open Access, round comes another circular from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) that shows...
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Inflationary Opinion Poll
Compare and contrast this abstract of a paper on the arXiv from Guth et al. from last year: Models of cosmic inflation posit an early phase of accelerated expansion of the universe, driven by the...
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Ode to SnarXiv
So many things pass me by these days that I’m not usually surprised when I have no idea what people around me are talking about. I am however quite surprised that, until yesterday, never heard of the...
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Planck versus BICEP2: Round One!
You may recall my scepticism about the recent announcement from the BICEP2 experiment about evidence from polarized microwave emission for the existence of primordial gravitational waves generated...
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The Physics Of Nonconformity: Why Difference Always Looks The Same
I came across an interesting paper while I was in an unblogging state last week so thought I’d share it here. Have you ever wondered why non-conformists always seem to look the same? I was struck by...
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Discrete Analysis — an arXiv overlay journal
telescoper:Good to see this experiment getting under way. Announcements about a similar (though not identical) initiative for Astrophysics and Cosmology (currently under beta testing) will appear...
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Fourier-transforming the Universe
Following the little post I did on Tuesday in reaction to a nice paper on the arXiv by Pontzen et al., my attention was drawn today to another paper e related to the comment I made about using Fourier...
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Want to use the Open Journal of Astrophysics? Get an Orcid ID!
We’re getting ready to launch the Open Journal of Astrophysics site so for all the folks out there who are busy preparing to submit papers let me just give you advanced warning how it works. The...
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Sinister Moves by Elsevier
I’ve been away at yet another Awayday today so only have time for a brief post before I go home and vegetate. I felt obliged, however, to draw the attention of my readership to the fact that there’s...
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Is there a kinematic backreaction in cosmology?
I just noticed that a paper has appeared on the arXiv with the confident title There is no kinematic backreaction. Normally one can be skeptical about such bold claims, but this one is written by Nick...
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The Open Journal of Astrophysics and NASA/ADS
As I’m working on the Open Journal of Astrophysics project quite a lot these days I’m probably going to be boring a lot of people with updates, but there you go. First astro.theog.org is now...
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