Robotic Telescope Special Issue

[Joshua Bloom]

Colleagues:

  The journal "Advances in Astronomy" (Hindawi Publishing) has issued  
a call for papers (*) on "Robotic Astronomy" and, as a guest editor, I  
encourage you to consider writing for this issue:

  "The main focus of this special issue will be on the new and  
existing astronomical facilities whose goal is to observe a wide  
variety of astrophysical targets with no (or very little) human  
interaction. The special issue will become an international forum for  
researchers to summarize the most recent developments and ideas in the  
field, with a special emphasis given to the technical and  
observational results obtained within the last five years."

   This issue, like all others in AiA, will be "open access" meaning  
that there will be free access to the published material and not  
require a subscription. It's a rather new business model in the  
academic publishing world and one that I think would be in all of our  
interests to support.

  The articles are due in June 2009 and I'd be happy to answer your  
questions in the interim. Please pass this email along to anyone else  
who you think might be interested in contributing.

Josh

(*) http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aa/si/robast.html


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Joshua Bloom
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