The New Journal of Physics (NJP) has announced the launch of video abstracts as a new integrated content stream. The new feature is expected to give all authors the opportunity to go beyond the constraints of the written article to personally present the importance of their work to the journal's global audience. The first examples of the new author-supplied videos are now live at http://www.njp.org/videoabstracts.
Early contributions include videos from the groups of David Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology and J Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, talking about scalable ion traps for quantum information processing, and quantum superposition of living organisms. Researchers from more than 25 countries are represented by the videos abstracts that are published.
Launched in 1998, NJP is an open-access journal co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and published by IOP Publishing. The introduction of this new video service reflects the journal's founding objectives to embrace the opportunities offered by the online medium towards making physics research as accessible and available as possible. IOP Publishing has made this investment as part of the company's ongoing commitment to developing and offering technological solutions to improve global scientific communication.
Video abstracts in NJP are permanently free-to-view and, in line with the journal's open-access publishing model, include functionality for sharing through social media channels towards maximising community engagement, interaction and visibility. The new service is being launched using Brightcove video sharing technology.
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