I would like to announce that the ICDD and Cambridge Journals have released a special issue of Powder Diffraction (Volume 29 Issue S2<http://click.academic.cambridge.org/?qs=b1ad8c696455257e08d5801cfea24d739192e7abe5e619d1f20167aa1427599b79087b6ef4d395ee>) as open access for all of 2015. This issue contains eight articles related to powder diffraction software on topics including powder diffraction indexing, software for the ICDD and CSD databases, 3-D printing, and that describe aspects of software packages including MSTRUC, HighScore and GSAS-II. There is also an educational article on the Python programming language.
I think this is the first toe that has been placed in the open-access river, at least within our field of expertise, so I would encourage readers of this to look at what is of interest to them, which may help demonstrate the level of interest in this type of community service. The Journal can also be accessed from this URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PDJ, but click on “Latest Issue” and then “Next Issue” until Supplement S2 - December 2014 is seen. You should be able read every article for free for the remainder of the calendar year. Brian
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