The new journals

AUG 01, 1970

John T. Scott

Every time you turn around it seems that someone has published a new physics journal. Announcements of new journals appear regularly in PHYSICS TODAY, publishers’ solicitations crowd your mail box, librarians demand extra display space for current issues.

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