Our good friends at Thomson ISI have given us a new “analysis tool”. When you do an author search in Web of Science, you will notice in the box along the right-hand side a new function “Citation Report”. When you select this function you will see plots and a detail report of the publishing and citation history of the author. AND TA DA! it will calculate the H-index of the author (a calculation of the productivity of the author).

Go ahead, I know you’re curious: http://www.library.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/r.cgi?url=http://isi01.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=WOS&Func=Frame

Ahhh, the things we can analyse now…

“In line with worldwide initiatives by a majority of society and independent publishers, the publishing consortium of The European Physical Journal (EPJ), has decided to accept the principle of “open access” publishing of accepted papers — i.e. of articles that have already successfully passed the peer-review stage — if so desired by the authors. In this open access publishing model that is sustained by upfront payment, the extensive services provided by the EPJ publishers for the print and online publication are the same as for papers published in the subscription model, with the following additional services provided:

a. The online version of an open access article will be perpetually, universally and freely accessible;

b. The author (or the initial copyright holder) is entitled to keep his/her copyright.”

Excerpt from the email of Harry.Blom@springer.com, received Nov 1, 2006.

I have not been able to confirm this information from the EPJ web site: http://www.eurphysj.org