Constant Learning: (Learning for Development) Patrick Doogue, Group Sales Manager 23 October, 2017
My first thought. beyond my: ability knowledge & outside of my: comfort zone experience In the presence of esteemed librarian s, fellow publishers and business partners however:
I remembered the central tenet of Turkish hospitality! I stand before you as God s Guest and know that I can rely on your: courtesy patience tolerance understanding I ve come to appreciate Turkey s rich culture and history, its natural beauty, its amazing people and glorious food.
what I ve learnt First written language (Hittites) First evidence of organized agriculture Home of 2 of the 7 wonders of the ancient world First shopping mall (The Grand Bazaar) Introduced coffee to Europe & Tulips to the Dutch!
Continued (Lifelong) Learning Defined the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated" pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. not new hard-coded in the DNA of mankind without the in-built curiosity of human beings there would have been no advances in: agriculture art engineering medicine science best summarized as follows:
the world s greatest physicist (scientist) and the essence of continued learning
we re for the passionately curious 1934 Publication of Reports in Progress in Physics, world s largest physics review journal; 1968 First publication of Journal of Physics series, will celebrate 50 th anniversary in 2017; 1994 Classical & Quantum Gravity is the first IOP Publishing online journal publication; 1995 All IOP Publishing journal publications are made available online; 1996 IOP Publishing participates in UK higher education Pilot Site Licence Initiative; 1998 New Journal of Physics is the first gold open-access journal published in physics; 2002 Digitization of complete IOP Publishing archive 1874 2002; 2007 Launch of IOP Publishing s Biophysics & Biomedical Physics collection; 2008 IOP Publishing & American Astronomical Society concludes publishing agreement; 2014 Launch of IOP Publishing s e-book publishing programme; 2015 IOP Publishing announces 4 new journal titles in biomedical and material science; 2015 IOP Publishing concludes new partnership with Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
but it s been an evolutionary process 100,000 articles published since 2004 8 core journals now published in BioSci.
as defined by the following measurements / statements
Adding value, delivering impact DEVELOP JOURNALS AND THEIR BRANDS MANAGE PEER REVIEW PRODUCE ARTICLES FOR PUBLICATION HOST AND DISTRIBUTE RESEARCH ONLINE ARCHIVE AND PRESERVE CONTENT ENABLE DISCOVERY OF PUBLISHED RESEARCH PUBLICISE JOURNAL PAPERS AND THEIR AUTHORS COLLECT AND MAKE AVAILABLE METRICS AND STATISTICS DISSEMINATE CONTENT PHYSICALLY AND DIGITALLY WORK WITH OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING MODELS SUPPORT SCIENCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Adding value, delivering impact DEVELOP JOURNALS AND THEIR BRANDS MANAGE PEER REVIEW PRODUCE ARTICLES FOR PUBLICATION HOST AND DISTRIBUTE RESEARCH ONLINE ARCHIVE AND PRESERVE CONTENT ENABLE DISCOVERY OF PUBLISHED RESEARCH PUBLICISE JOURNAL PAPERS AND THEIR AUTHORS COLLECT AND MAKE AVAILABLE METRICS AND STATISTICS DISSEMINATE CONTENT PHYSICALLY AND DIGITALLY WORK WITH OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING MODELS SUPPORT SCIENCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Not Just Journals IOP e-books publishing program One-time perpetual purchase No DRM No maintenance fees Multiple formats EPUB3, PDF, HTML Integrated platform with journal content First chapters free-to-read
IOP Expanding Physics The IOP Expanding Physics collection serves the needs of advanced students and researchers in academia and industry by offering pioneering titles from leading global experts across the breadth of physics and related subject areas. Authoritative texts a leading voice on a topic Excellent production quality In-depth texts 200 500 pages Research monographs Graduate/advanced-undergraduate textbooks Aimed at recent graduate/research level
IOP Concise Physics Developed with Morgan & Claypool Publishers (M&C). IOP Concise Physics offers short texts on rapidly advancing areas, to provide a snapshot of current research or an introduction to key principles. These books are aimed at researchers and students of all levels with an interest in physics and related subject areas. Concise 70 120 pages Radid production Interdisciplinary physics for physicist and non-physicist Aimed at undergraduate/researchers
4 Releases Published / In Production Since 2014
AAS IOP Collection IOP has partnered with American Astronomical Society (AAS) to create a new book programme that further enhances the AAS mission: to share humanity s scientific knowledge of the universe AAS journals published 23% of all articles in astronomy and astrophysics in 2014 The Astronomical Journal was the mostcited astronomy and astrophysics title in 2014 Downloads from AAS journals have increased by 69% over the last five years
The importance of Physics to national economics Ireland I The traditional view Contributes 11bn to the Irish economy employing 29% of the workforce
The importance of Physics to national economics Ireland in 2013 37bn of physics based good and services exported from Ireland 160,000 people employed in physics based industries (8% of the workforce) 138,273 per person value added 2.3bn physics-based invested in R & D (83% of all R & D = 1.3% of GDP) 48.7bn turnover generated by physics-based industries Source: Centre for Economics & Business Research, January 2017
Physics fundamental in research & development in DNA as well as
the Global Positioning System
Optical fibres
The World Wide Web
Closing Thought
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