Open Astronomy
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| Discipline | Astronomy |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Beatriz Barbuy |
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Former nameTemplate:Pluralize from text | Baltic Astronomy |
| History | 1992-present |
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| 0.439 (Baltic Astronomy) [needs update]Template:DMCA (2016) | |
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| ISO 4 | Open Astron. |
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| ISSN | 2543-6376 |
| LCCN | 95640784 |
| OCLC no. | 50136117 |
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| ISSN | 1392-0049 |
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Open Astronomy (formerly Baltic Astronomy) is a peer-reviewed fully open access scientific journal, and currently published by De Gruyter Open. The journal was established in 1992 by the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy (Vilnius University, Lithuania) as Baltic Astronomy, obtaining its current title in 2017 when it converted to open access. The journal is devoted to publishing research, reviews and news spanning all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics. The editor in chief is Prof. Beatriz Barbuy (IAG, University of São Paulo).
History
Open Astronomy is the continuation of publishing in the open access model of Baltic Astronomy, which was published by the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy in Vilnius for astronomical institutions of the Baltic states.
The political liberation in the then Soviet Union during the later part of the 1980s enabled increased international contacts. For greater international visibility, a modern journal publishing in English was desired, replacing several less visible publication series from the observatories in Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius. Each of those had, during Soviet rule, published mainly in Russian. Following discussions among the Baltic astronomical institutes, it was agreed to discontinue those publications once Baltic Astronomy was launched.
Some regrets were expressed for the discontinuation of the long-running Publications of the Tartu Astrophysical Observatory (Estonian title: Script error: No such module "Lang".), which, with some name variants, had been published at Tartu Observatory since 1817 (Latin title of its volume 1: Script error: No such module "Lang".). Its final volume 53 appeared in 1990. Also the more recent Proceedings of the Tartu Astrophysical Observatory (Estonian title: Script error: No such module "Lang".), started in 1954, were concluded with its number 109 in 1991. In Latvia, the publication series Investigations of the Sun and Red Stars by the Radioastrophysocal Observatory of the Latvian Academy of Sciences in Riga (Latvian title: Script error: No such module "lang".), started in 1974, published its final volume 36 in 1993. In Lithuania, the Bulletin of the Vilnius Astronomical Observatory (Lithuanian title: Script error: No such module "lang".), founded in 1960 (published by Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory, in collaboration with the Institute of Physics and Mathematics), issued its final volume 86 in 1992.
Baltic Astronomy was sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science (Lithuania), and published quarterly (4 issues per year). Its final volume 25 appeared in 2016. Its editor in chief since the journal's inception in 1992 was Vytautas Straižys.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed by:
- Astrophysics Data System
- Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences[1]
- Inspec[2]
- Science Citation Index Expanded[1]
- Scopus[3]
- VINITI/Referativny Zhurnal Astronomija
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Inspec list of journals" (PDF). Inspec. Institution of Engineering and Technology. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 2017-01-11.
