Category: Latest News

30 August 2023
The AAS Open Access Publishing Model: Open, Transparent, and Fair

As of 2022, all AAS journals are open access. What does our business model look like for the journals now, and why did we choose it?

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21 August 2023
The AAS Publication Support Fund: Preserving Author Access to the AAS Journals

Ethan Vishniac outlines the AAS Publication Support Fund which provides financial support to authors for the publication of their journal articles.

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17 August 2023
Response to NASA RFI: NASA Public Access Plan for Increasing Access to the Results of NASA-Supported Research

AAS Publishing staff and editors have contributed a response to NASA’s recent Request for Information on their Public Access Plan for Increasing Access to the Results of NASA-Supported Research. Read AAS’s full response here.

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30 March 2023
On the Use of Chatbots in Writing Scientific Manuscripts

Ethan Vishniac discusses editorial guidelines for the use of chatbots in preparing manuscripts for submission to the journals of the AAS.

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2 March 2023
AAS Journals Editor in Chief Ethan Vishniac elected to the 2022 class of AAAS Fellows

The AAAS has elected 505 scientists, engineers, and innovators to the 2022 class of AAAS Fellows,

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18 February 2023
A Word on the AAS Journals Finances

Kevin Marvel outlines the financial situation for the AAS journals.

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8 February 2023
Response to NASA RFI

AAS Publishing staff and editors and the AAS Publications Committee have contributed a response to NASA’s recent Request for Information on their SPD-41 policy on open data and open science.

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9 January 2023
AAS Journals Transition to Open Access

The AAS transitioned its entire journals portfolio to fully open access (OA) on 1 January 2022. Read more about this transition in the FAQs.

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16 August 2022
Remembering Judy Pipher (1940–2022)

AAS journals Lead Editor Judy Pipher made seminal contributions to detector development and observations in infrared astronomy and was a major contributor to the success of the Spitzer Space Telescope.

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18 March 2020
Remembering Paul W. Hodge (1934–2019)

Former AJ editor Paul Hodge, an expert in the subject of nearby galaxies, was born on November 8, 1934, in Seattle, Washington.

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