The Astrophysical Journal is on the move!
Word.
The Astrophysical Journal, a primary reasearch publication outlet of the American Astronomical Society is moving. Publication will apparently be done by the Institute of Physics, UK!
And the Editor's office is moving to Canada, we hear (anyone care to confirm that...?)
Third hand reports suggest the University of Chicago Press is doing things differently, and not in an entirely good way, at least from the academic publishing perspective.
One too many MBAs methinks.
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This may be correct.
No one (except bean counters?) is happy about this. Astrophysics itself was created here at Yerkes/UChicago, after all.