Posted: May 05, 2011 7:06 pm
Perusing existing online offerings. Here is a quick list:
http://www.publish.csiro.au/
http://www.nature.com/
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/index.html
http://www.australasianscience.com.au/
http://www.sciencemag.org/
http://www.newscientist.com/
http://www.cell.com/
http://www.thesciencejournal.com/
http://www.livescience.com/
Several have physical counterparts and you can only read the articles with a yearly subscription. I have a lot to say about why the subscription method is unsatisfactory. I'm writing an article about it and will provide a link when its done.
The free stuff seems to generate articles of about 500 words average. That's just not long enough to really get into any topic, just a heads up intro really. Also there are pop sites like http://www.space.com and they have similarly small articles. For our mag I would expect to compile such short "news" items into a single "Monthly Update" or some such. Perhaps with links to more detailed articles. Interestingly a bit of "time travel" is possible here since the detailed articles may get published later and the links added back in the older collection.
http://www.publish.csiro.au/
http://www.nature.com/
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/index.html
http://www.australasianscience.com.au/
http://www.sciencemag.org/
http://www.newscientist.com/
http://www.cell.com/
http://www.thesciencejournal.com/
http://www.livescience.com/
Several have physical counterparts and you can only read the articles with a yearly subscription. I have a lot to say about why the subscription method is unsatisfactory. I'm writing an article about it and will provide a link when its done.
The free stuff seems to generate articles of about 500 words average. That's just not long enough to really get into any topic, just a heads up intro really. Also there are pop sites like http://www.space.com and they have similarly small articles. For our mag I would expect to compile such short "news" items into a single "Monthly Update" or some such. Perhaps with links to more detailed articles. Interestingly a bit of "time travel" is possible here since the detailed articles may get published later and the links added back in the older collection.