APS Journals Highlights

A new release of REVTeX 4.1 is now live. It addresses bugs in the previous release and primarily offers improved handling of bibliography entries. Please see http://authors.aps.org/revtex4/ for more information.

Physical Review E Rapid Communications are devoted to the accelerated publication of especially important new results. In order to give more visibility to these articles, we are now highlighting published Rapids on our website. The titles of the articles will be displayed with a link to the abstract. The display will rotate so that different articles might be displayed each time a user reloads the website. Each article will be in the rotation for several weeks. We hope you will find this feature useful and we encourage you to send any feedback to pre@aps.org.

We now have an RSS feed on topological insulators. Our topical feeds are curated by the Editors and provide a convenient way to keep up with papers of interest from all APS journals. See our RSS Feeds page to subscribe to this new feed and to view the full list of available feeds.

Physical Review A Rapid Communications are devoted to the accelerated publication of especially important new results. In order to give more visibility to these articles, we are now highlighting published Rapids on our website. The titles of the articles will be displayed with a link to the abstract. The display will rotate so that different articles might be displayed each time a user reloads the website. Each article will be in the rotation for several weeks. We hope you will find this feature useful and we encourage you to send any feedback to pra@aps.org.

Librarians can now verify and update their subscription information, including IP ranges, using the APS Librarian Portal for subscriptions to Physical Review Letters, Physical Review, and Reviews of Modern Physics. Thanks to AIP, subscribers who have access to the Scitation Library Service Center can use the same username and password on the APS portal by visiting https://librarians.aps.org/account. Librarians who need to register may contact help@aps.org.

The editors of the APS journals have selected 157 new Outstanding Referees for 2010, out of more than 42,000 currently active referees. Initiated in 2008, the highly selective Outstanding Referee program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. Selections are based on two decades of records on the number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports. The 2010 honorees come from 30 different countries, with large contingents from the US, Germany, UK, Canada, and France. The decisions were difficult and there are many excellent referees who have yet to be recognized. By means of the program, APS expresses appreciation to all referees, whose efforts in peer review not only keep the standards of the journals at a high level, but in many cases also help authors to improve the quality and readability of their articles—even those that are not published by APS. For more information and a sortable listing of all Outstanding Referees, please visit http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees.