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Annals of Improbable Research Goes Free Online
prostoalex writes "The Annals of Improbable Research, a scientific publication that hosts the annual Ig Nobel awards, has decided to offer its publication free online, News.com reports. According to the journal Web site, visitors can view HTML articles with low-res images or download low-res PDFs for free. High-resolution PDFs and 'traditional on-the-toilet-readable paper-and-ink' issues are still available for a subscription fee."
The predecessor pub was the Journal of Irreproducible Results. TFS should have perhaps stipulated that AIR is a scientific journal parody. I disagree about the narrow focus - lampooning the cosmetic ads in women's supermarket mags as scientific break throughs are pretty funny to me. Make that a slightly wider than teensy readership.
You're remembering the Journal of Irreproducible Research, aad you're misremembering the details.
The JIR was purchased by Blackwell Scientific. The staff had a hard time reproducing the good results they had working with their previous publisher, and indeed producing anything at all. The staff quit, and formed AIR.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
It's not a scientific journal parody, the majority of the articles published are genuine research, just research that could be regarded as improbable and amusing, like functional MRI images of people chewing gum. In fact, lots of journals carry light-hearted or off-the-wall research (check out the Christmas edition of the British Medical Journal) but with AIR it's the rule rather than the exception.
You mean Journal of Irreproducible Results .
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