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- Published on 08 April 2008
The results and follow-up of the extensive survey carried out last year by the Astronomy & Astrophysics Editorial Office on the perception of the journal by its authors can now be consulted at: Editorial, A&A 480, E3, (2008) for the full pdf version. For the abstract click here. This is a free access article.
The objective of the poll was to assess the perception of the journal in the community so as to better serve its members.
A&A is now implementing changes where it counts to bring about an even more professional peer-review process, an even faster manuscript handling process and an even greater interaction with the Editors.
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- Published on 15 February 2008
The ADS has developed “Dexter”, a Java applet that supports the user in
the process of generating data points from published figures containing
images, plots, graphs and histograms, whenever the original datasets
used by the authors to produce figures in the papers are not available
electronically. Dexter's basic functional is to let the user manually
digitize a plot by marking points and defining the coordinate
transformation from the logical to the physical coordinate system.
Advanced features include automatic identification of axes, tracing
lines and finding points matching a template.
Please have a look at ADS Dexter help to get more information.
The ADS applet Dexter, which is available under the GNU General Public
License, has been adapted by EDP Sciences to work with A&A articles.
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- Published on 12 December 2007
The new Sect. 15, entitled “Numerical methods and codes” which is devoted to publishing new numerical algorithms and codes of interest, and the Section 12 “Atomic, molecular, and nuclear data” are now published online only. These welcome newcomers add to the other online-only sections: Sect. 13, “Astronomical Instrumentation”, and Sect. 14 “Online catalogs and data”.
See Editorial, A&A vol. 477, issue 1, p. E1 (2008).
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- Published on 23 October 2007
EDP Sciences and A&A are glad to announce the "First Astronomy and Astrophysics School: Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers" which will be held in Blankenberge, Belgium, from 19 to 21 May 2008.
The direct purpose of organising an "A&A School" is to teach young authors how to express their scientific results through adequate and efficient science writing. In other words: how to write scientific papers for different forums (journals, proceedings, thesis manuscripts, etc.).
Visit the website at www.swya.org.
You can download the announcement.
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- Published on 31 July 2007
See Letter from the Board of Directors of Astronomy & Astrophysics, A&A vol. 472, issue 1, p. E9 (2007).
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- Published on 09 July 2007
Don’t think twice, until the end of 2008, take advantage of our color printing offers:
- Free for letters: figures (for which electronic files are provided in color) are published in color free of charge in the paper version.
- 50% reduction on regular papers: this discount is applied to the color figure prices.
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- Published on 09 July 2007
In line with our aims of close collaboration with our scientific partners, we are pleased to inform you that the articles published in section 14 Online catalogs and data are in full Open Access *.
* Articles in section 13 Astronomical instrumentation have already been in full Open Access since the first 2007 issue.
We are confident that these changes will improve the visibility and diffusion of your articles and hope that you will enjoy our new services.
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- Published on 09 July 2007
In the goal of enhancing our services to the astrophysical community, we are pleased to inform you that the letters section is now available in full Open Access until the end of 2008.
We are confident that this change will improve the visibility and diffusion of your articles and hope that you will enjoy our new service.
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- Published on 05 June 2007
The IRAM interferometer, located on the Plateau de Bure at 2500 meters altitude in the French Alps, has entered a new era since the beginning of 2006. The tracks, on which the six 15-meter diameter antennas move, have been extended, nearly doubling the east-west and north-south baselines. The largest separation of the antennas is now 760 meters, enabling sub-arcsecond angular resolution at millimeter wavelengths.
This special issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters presents first results with the extended baselines of the Plateau de Bure interferometer. Eleven Letters report observations done at sub-arcsecond resolution of objects ranging from nearby star-forming regions and evolved stars to starburst galaxies.
The Astronomy & Astrophysics special feature (volume 468 n°3 – June IV 2007) on the extended baselines for the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer includes 11 Letters. They are freely available on the A&A web site.
Table of contents of the A&A special feature (and free access to the PDF files)
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- Published on 09 November 2006
Astronomy & Astrophysics introduces a new editorial policy for papers submitted to Section 13 (Astronomical Instrumentation).
See Editorial , A&A 459, E3, (2006)
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- Published on 31 July 2006
It is with a great pleasure that we communicate to you the new impact factor of ISI.
Astronomy & Astrophysics (0004-6361) benefits from an impact factor of 4.223 with 68577 quotations.
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- Published on 10 March 2006
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- Published on 10 January 2006
Available with the full html page the 'Cited by' link lists all the papers quoting the present article and referred to in the ADS database.
This service is based on the ADS service 'Citations to the article'.
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- Published on 02 June 2005
As a service to the authors, to enlarge dissemination of scientific information and to increase the visibility of articles, EDP Sciences is pleased to announce the launch of the Latest articles FREE service for Astronomy & Astrophysics. This service allows non-subscribers to the journal to have, on registration, free access to the full online edition of the most recent issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics on EDP Sciences website.
The Latest articles FREE service is devoted to individuals for their private studies, scholarship or research, without any commercial benefit.
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- Published on 14 April 2005
As of April 1, 2005, The EDP Sciences mirror site at http://edpsciences.nao.ac.jp is no longer available.
Please use one of the following sites:
- http://www.edpsciences.org
- http://www.edpsciences-usa.org
- CDS mirror site
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- Published on 05 December 2004
Search on full-text PDF files can now be performed for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
For this journal you can now:
- search words in full-text PDF articles;
- search in authors/title/abstract/keywords;
- find an article using its reference (journal/volume/starting page);
- find an article using its DOI.
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- Published on 05 November 2004
As a new service to authors, Astronomy & Astrophysics now gives online access to the unedited preprint version of accepted papers several weeks ahead of publication, on the author's consent. This service is free of charge for authors.
The first PDF files of accepted papers were published online on November 16, 2004.
Permission is asked to the author either through MMS (Manuscript Management System) for regular articles or by the editorial office for Letters. The PDF file is produced by the publisher from the LaTeX file sent by the author and is released if the final size is less than 3Mb without any conversion problem. This online version does not take into account corrections made during copy-editing and production processes.
Online access to PDF forthcoming papers is granted to all Astronomy & Astrophysics subscribers.
Go to A&A Forthcoming Papers list .
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- Published on 14 October 2004
New policy concerning expanded European and non-European A&A memberships
In the early nineteen-nineties, A&A with great foresight took an important step - which the European Union would follow more than a decade later - by incorporating eastern European countries into its sponsoring membership: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic; Estonia became a full member in 1998. A&A was now truly "A European Journal", as then stated on the front cover.
In the meantime, A&A grew in importance as a vehicle for world-wide dissemination of astronomical research and an ever-increasing number of high-quality papers began streaming into the A&A Editorial offices from non-European countries, as well as from other European non-member countries. It became obvious to us that A&A no longer was merely a European Journal and in 2001 we removed the "A European Journal" from the front cover.
Eventually, some of these non-European countries began approaching us with queries about potential membership in A&A and in 2002 we admitted the first such country, Argentina, with an observer status. Meanwhile, the Board intensified its study of the financial and administrative consequences of a wider expansion including the admission of member countries beyond Europe - a special subcommittee was appointed.
The Board of Directors, at its meeting in Tartu, Estonia on 8 May 2004, made the important decision - after a lengthy and thorough discussion - that A&A will henceforth consider applications for sponsoring membership from any country in the world with well-documented active and excellent astronomical research. Each application will be carefully treated on a case-by-case basis. Subsequently, at this meeting, the Board admitted Argentina to full membership in A&A starting on 1 January 2005. In addition, three other applicants were admitted to observer status, namely Brazil, Chile and Portugal. The above-mentioned special Board subcommittee will continue its work and submit recommendations on the restructuring of the Board and its Executive Committee, a necessary consequence of the foreseen expansion.
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- Published on 15 June 2004
Claude Bertout (Editor-in-Chief) and Peter Schneider (Letters Editor)
PDF file of the Editorial
See table of contents of the relevant issue (420-3)
Abstract. We present an overview of current issues involved in editing Astronomy & Astrophysics, going from the detail of editorial policies and procedures to some more general aspects.
Table of contents of the editorial.
1. Introduction
2. Considering a submission for publication
2.1. Regular papers
2.2. Letters
2.3. Papers describing instruments and observational techniques
2.4. Catalogs and data papers
2.5. Papers on special subjects
3. Some style issues
4. The peer-review process at A&A
4.1. How do we select referees?
4.2. The referee report
4.2.1. Regular papers
4.2.2. Letters
4.2.3. Special A&A Issues
4.3. Possible complications in the peer-review process
4.3.1. Delay in finding a referee
4.3.2. Delay in getting the referee report
4.3.3. Offensive attitude of referee or author
4.3.4. Delay in revising the paper
4.3.5. Some statistics and conclusions
5. Acceptance and publication
5.1. Letters
5.2. Regular papers
5.3. Language editing
5.4. On-line material 5.4.1. Publishing data at the CDS
5.4.2. On-line material
5.5. Page charges
6. Outlook
6.1. Impact factor issues
6.2. Electronic-only publication of A&A?