This year on the EGU General Assembly blog there will be guest posts from participants about their research and their impressions of sessions. These are personal points of view not EGU corporate views. If you would like to contribute a research or session viewpoint, please email us. This perspective from the European Geosciences Union General Asembly 2011 is from Thomas Smith about how to maximise ...[Read More]
EGU GA 2011 in the news
Items from the European Geosciences Union General Assembly are featured prominently on the BBC’s Science and Environment pages. The current top story is about “Thuderstorms numbers calculated” (link). The top story for some time yesterday (Wednesday) was Climate ‘fix’ may warm, not cool, again directly related to research presented at the EGU General Assembly. If you ...[Read More]
Celebration: 10 years of interactive open access publishing at EGU GA 2011
It’s been ten years since the launch of the first interactive open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, followed by a growing number of EGU open access journals covering most fields of geoscience. A combination of traditional peer review and interactive and public discussion on the internet assures efficient scientific exchange and top quality. High submission rates and impact factors ...[Read More]
EGGS: The Newsletter of the EGU
A new issue (issue 34) of EGGS was published recently, its available on the EGGS website. EGGS is also available as an app for some smart phones: Android and iPhone platforms.
EGU Journals: Special Edition of NHESS
The latest edition of NHESS (Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences) features a post-face by Münch et al. summarising the special issue which has 22 peer-reviewed papers concerning the GITEWS (German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System) project. Münch et al. (2011) state how the idea for the special issue of NHESS was formulated at the EGU General Assembly in 2009. The papers cover all aspe ...[Read More]
Success of Biogeosciences [EGU Open Access Journal]
On the EGU news page of the EGSS, the newsletter of EGU, there’s a story about the success of Biogeosciences, one of EGU’s Open Access Journals. The Thomson Journal Citation Reports for 2009 gave Biogeosciences an Impact Factor of 3.246 and an Article Impact Score of 1.538, with over one meaning a journal article has above average influence.
European Geosciences Union Publications
The EGU has been a pioneer in open-access publications, the mission statement can be found on the publications page of the EGU webpage. This is alongside EGGS, the EGU newsletter. There are currently 16 open access peer-reviewed journals, each with their own homepage which can be found on the publications page. On Fridays, articles from the journals will be highlighted along with research presente ...[Read More]