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COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Institute of Physics' (AIP) Center for History of Physics has opened a new online exhibit on early 20th century physicist Ernest Rutherford, who helped discover the structure of the atom. Titled "Rutherford's Nuclear World," the new web exhibit burrows beneath the simple story of Rutherford's famed discoveries and recreates the mystery and excitement of his world-changing work. The exhibit features audio clips and...

Key titles dominate their categories, according to newly released Thomson Reuters' data MELVILLE, N.Y., July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is proud to announce significant increases in impact factors across its journal portfolio, as reported in the 2011 Journal Citation Reports®(JCR) (Thomson Reuters 2012). Outstanding performers are The Journal of Chemical Physics, the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, and Physics Today....

COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Institute of Physics (AIP) welcomes a new report, drafted by a distinguished group of U.K. scholarly publishing stakeholders, which seeks to achieve wider and more open public access to peer-reviewed publications. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100714/AIPLOGO) This report, Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications, released on June 19 (GMT +1), is...

JAP Materials and APL Materials to join the ranks of AIP's premier journals MELVILLE, N.Y., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two new open-access journals will join the distinguished ranks of publications produced by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) later this year. The journals - JAP Materials and APL Materials - will be affiliated with AIP's two premier applied physics journals, Journal of Applied Physics (JAP) and Applied Physics Letters (APL), and will feature...

Scientific publisher goes global MELVILLE, N.Y., March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced today that it is opening a new office in Beijing, China - the first part of a multi-phase plan to expand globally. An official grand opening of the new China office is planned for June. Beijing was the logical first step in this global expansion, say AIP officials, because China is second only to the United States as the largest source of scientific papers...

MELVILLE, N.Y. and COLUMBIA, S.C., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The American Institute of Physics (AIP), a highly-respected publisher of scholarly journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, and leading society publisher, and Collexis Holdings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CLXS), a premier developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced today their new technology partnership. The innovative collaboration will allow AIP (www.aip.org) to leverage Collexis'...