Physics News
David Stern
Presentations by Our Own
Patricia T. Viele will be repeating her tutorial "Mining the Internet" at the Winter American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) meeting; it appears in the review section of the new issue of Physics Education:
Web Watch Mining the Internet. Physics Education January, 2005: 96-98.
She will also be speaking in the session on Best Practices and Resources for Teaching Technology. The title of her talk is: Have You Seen A Good Web Site Lately?.
Physics in Our Everyday Lives
Joseph Kraus (jokraus@du.edu) says "check out the The World Year of Physics (WYP 2005), a worldwide celebration of physics and its importance in our everyday lives at http://www.physics2005.org/
Diane Retires (Is that envy I hear?)
We bid a fond congratulations to Diane Fortner, former PAM President and longtime active PAM member, who retired in September 2004, after a 21-year career as a science librarian at the University of California at Berkeley. What a role model!
Top High Energy Physics Journal Comparison Data
George S. Porter reports that he just stumbled across a graph
http://jhep.mse.jhu.edu/statistics/img0.html which compares the number of papers published in five leading high energy physics titles on an annual basis from 1997-2003. One of the most striking features of the graph is the precipitous decline in papers published in the commercial journals. This is the first page of a substantive analysis of JHEP's
publication history, which is worth reading on its own.
For grins, I thought I'd check out the 2005 subscription costs of the journals. [For simplicity, online only, large academic institution pricing.]
david.e.stern@yale.edu
All three of the society journals could be purchased ($9620) for less than either of the commercial journals.
