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            <h2>Aims</h2>
            <p>SciPost Physics Lecture Notes is a premium-quality, two-way open access, peer-witnessed refereed Journal for didactic material in the general field of Physics.</p>
            <p>It aims at providing scientists with a publishing platform in which uncompromising scientific quality meets the highest achievable standards of open accessibility, with a resolutely international outlook.</p>
            <p><em>Two-way open access</em> means free for readers, free for authors: there are no subscription or download costs, and authors are freed from dealing with article submission and/or processing charges.</p>
            <p>The <em>peer-witnessed refereeing</em> process guarantees high-quality, responsible refereeing, with demonstrably greater utility for authors and recognition for referees.</p>
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            <h2>Scope</h2>
            <p>SciPost Physics Lecture Notes publishes outstanding-quality didactic material in the domains of Experimental, Theoretical and Computational physics, among which:</p>
            <ul>
                <li>Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics</li>
                <li>Biophysics</li>
                <li>Condensed Matter Physics</li>
                <li>Fluid Dynamics</li>
                <li>Gravitation</li>
                <li>Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics</li>
                <li>High-Energy Physics</li>
                <li>Mathematical Physics</li>
                <li>Nuclear Physics</li>
                <li>Quantum Statistical Mechanics</li>
                <li>Statistical and Soft Matter Physics</li>
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          <h2>Content</h2>
          <p>The journal accepts Lecture Notes of different levels:
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              <li><strong>Research</strong>-level content is meant for advanced material of interest and importance to current research.</li>
            <li><strong>Graduate</strong>-level content is targeted at MSc and PhD caliber readers.</li>
            <li><strong>Undergraduate</strong>-level content is meant for more introductory material.</li>
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          <h2>Submission and Editorial Process</h2>
          <p>Authors should follow the <a href="{% url 'submissions:author_guidelines' %}">submission guidelines</a> to ensure seamless processing of their manuscript. The <a href="{% url 'journals:journals_terms_and_conditions' %}">SciPost Journals Terms and Conditions</a> apply to all Submissions to SciPost Physics Lecture Notes.</p>
          <p>All incoming Submissions are checked for plagiarism and follow the peer-witnessed refereeing procedures outlined in <a href="{% url 'submissions:sub_and_ref_procedure' %}">Submission and Refereeing procedure</a>.</p>
          <p>All publication decisions are taken by the <a href="{% url 'scipost:about' %}#editorial_college_physics">Editorial College (Physics)</a>, following the rules set out in the <a href="{% url 'scipost:EdCol_by-laws' %}">Editorial College by-laws</a>.</p>
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          <h2>Publication: Open Access</h2>
          <p>Publications in SciPost Physics Lecture Notes are published under the terms of the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License</a>, allowing freedom to use, reproduce and distribute the articles and related content (unless otherwise noted), for commercial and noncommercial purposes, subject to the citation of the original source.</p>
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