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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
A. Dinklage, E. Ascasíbar, C. D. Beidler, R. Brakel, J. Geiger, J. H. Harris, A. Kus, S. Murakami, S. Okamura, R. Preuss, F. Sano, U. Stroth, Y. Suzuki, J. Talmadge, V. Tribaldos, K. Y. Watanabe, A. Weller, H. Yamada, M. Yokoyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | January 2007 | Pages 1-7
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1281
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Further exploration of confinement trends in the evolving International Stellarator Confinement Database is reported. The impact of configurations on confinement is confirmed, and the performance close to operational limits is discussed. Model comparison techniques allow for tests of physical models against data. Correlations of configuration-describing parameters against an empirical confinement enhancement factor are investigated.
