This book, first published in 1990, examines the relationships between scientists, publishers and journals. It focuses on managing acquisitions budgets, and helps substantiate journals selection/deselection decisions to library users and administrators.

Yoshio Nishina not only made a great contribution to the emergence of a research network that produced two Nobel prize winners, but he also raised the overall level of physics in Japan. Focusing on his roles as researcher, teacher, and statesman of science, Yoshio Nishina: Father of Modern Physics in Japan analyzes Nishina's position in and his con