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Challenges and responses
Author(s) -
Mabe Michael
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.19920041002
Subject(s) - publishing , scientific publishing , library science , engineering ethics , nanotechnology , engineering , political science , computer science , materials science , law
Commercial publishers sometimes have a different view to those publishers associated with societies when it comes to fixing prices or to founding new journals. Last Fall, Kurt Paulus of Institute of Physics Publishing provided some insight from the point of view of the societies, this year Michael Mabe of Pergamon underlines the common goal of scientific publishers—serving the scientific community—while tracing the explosive development of the number of papers offered for publication in primary journals and teh difficulties associated with dealing with them.