Hello iMechanica community!
I am happy to announce the upcoming release of a new journal from Cell Press in the general field of materials science. So new in fact, that the title of the journal is yet to be finalized!
At Elsevier, we are committed to supporting authors and reviewers. We have developed several series of freely-available, bite-sized training webcasts containing some useful tips and tricks on a range of valuable topics.
http://www.elsevier.com/authors/publishing-connect-training-webcasts
The Website CreateChange has recently done a Q&A with me. Here is the transcript.
I just stumbled on this very interesting discussion on why science graduate students should publish, regardless of their later career intentions. I agree with the author on most points, but believe it really comes down to two things: (1) if you aren't going to communicate your results (both good and bad!) then you might as well have not bothered to do the work, and (2) becoming a good writer is a skill that every technical person will need in any career.
Elsevier-bashing has become a sport among researchers. The company is singled out, among publishers of research journals, perhaps because it is the largest. We might as well use Elsevier as a representative of the publishers, and hard-working people at Elsevier should not be offended.
I am putting together a proposal in response to NSF's Engineering Virtual Organizations solicitation regarding what I call Open Source Publishing. The proposal can be found (and edited if you setup an account) here. I would encourage you to register and edit if you're interested. All revisions are saved so there is no risk of messing something up. The proposal is fairly unstructured at this point and consists
At a meeting of the Editorial Board of IJSS, on Sunday, 3 June 2007, in Austin, Texas, the representatives from Elsevier, the publisher of IJSS, told the members of the Board that all articles published in IJSS will be freely accessible 24 months after publication. The first of these articles will become available in October 2007. That is, all IJSS articles published after October 2005 will become freely accessible after a delay of 24 months.
