Engineering Library Blog

CAE’s Engineering Sciences will be published by Springer beginning in Jan., 2008. “Engineering Sciences is a comprehensive and high-level academic journal for the engineering science and technology communities in China. The journal’s international editorial board includes experts from the US, the UK, Europe and China. Springer will publish the journal in both electronic and print formats four times a year. The online version will be available on SpringerLink, Springer’s online information platform. Springer is one of the world’s leading providers of Chinese research literature, and the new journal will further strengthen its presence in the market.”
Source: Knowledgespeak newsletter Apr.20, 2007

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http://www.pepublishing.com/strong>Professional Engineering Publishing launches new open access service - 23 Jul 2007

Professional Engineering Publishing (PEP), the publishing arm of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK, has launched a new open access service, Engineering Open Choice, for the engineering community.

Engineering Open Choice gives authors the option of having their published research made available free to anyone throughout the world, on an open access basis. The service is designed to satisfy the needs of the community - authors, funding bodies, readers - who want research material to be made available on an open access basis. It is available to authors of all papers accepted for publication upon payment of a standard fee.

The service will be available in all journals published by Professional Engineering Publishing, particularly the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. All articles will be peer-reviewed to the highest standards, professionally produced, and made available both in print and online at http://journals.pepublishing.com. Engineering Open Choice gives authors the option to choose how they want their research to be published.

The latest newsletter from IEEE offers — among other news:

1. Toolbar for IEEE, easily downloaded

2. 4 new journals in IEEE Xplore:

   IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

   IEEE Journal of Selected topics in Signal Processing

   IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

   IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

3. IEEE Online Training Seminars — free demonstrations and searching instructions

4. IET Synthetic Biology — new journal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, offering free downloading of Volume 1 for 2007, at the IET Digital Library.

The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has launched a new open access journal under the editorship of Larry J. Shuman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. “A peer-reviewed journal, Advances in Engineering Education, seeks to highlight significant advances in instruction, pedagogy, technology and assessment that substantially improve learning in the broadest sense. The journal will include descriptions of innovative curricula, courses, and teaching practices both within and outside the classroom. Completed and documented studies will be published as full articles.”

“By focusing on educational developments and practice, the new journal complements the Society’s existing engineering education research publication, Journal of Engineering Education.” The latest issues of this title are in the Engineering Library on the second floor with the current periodicals. Request earlier issues from ReCAP.

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, Sept. 18th.

The Journal of Biological Engineering (JMB) is just being launched by BioMed Central, an open access (OA) publisher.

From today’s Knowledgespeak Newsletter: “Dr Mark Riley, Associate Professor at the University of Arizona’s Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering, will serve as the journal’s Editor-in-Chief. He will be supported by an expert Editorial Board.

The official publication of the Institute of Biological Engineering, the Journal of Biological Engineering will cover all aspects of biological engineering. The journal seeks to provide a forum for topics that address the basic questions that unify all applications of biological engineering.

Articles in JBE are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. JBE manuscripts will integrate engineering with life sciences to generate new quantitative methods, models, and information. The journal invites manuscript submissions that address theoretical and applied approaches to design, optimise, and use biological systems ranging in scale from molecules, cells, organisms, to ecosystems.”

Princeton University Library now has an electronic subscription to Tissue Engineering from 1995 onward. The journal is announcing the free availability of this report published in their December 2007 issue: “Strategic Directions in Tissue Engineering”

“Tissue Engineering brings together scientific and medical experts in the fields of biomedical engineering, materials science, molecular and cellular biology and genetic engineering. Available both in print and online, it is the official journal of the Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society. The journal’s editorial board comprises leaders in the field of tissue engineering from around the globe.”

Engineering Librarian, Adriana Popescu writes: “…we now have online access to all Elsevier journals. For some journals, we can access articles back to the first issue, for others we only have access from 1995 on. The catalog records may take a while to update, so please remember to check the www.sciencedirect.com site to see if we can download Elsevier articles before we submit [Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan] requests or purchase articles from ScienceDirect.

Happy 2008!

Elsevier journals are also included and indexed topically in subject-based databases, such as Engineering Index (Compendex) and selectively by Web of Science. Scopus, the other huge interdisciplinary database includes most, if not all, Elsevier journals, since it is being developed and maintained by Elsevier.

“First Issue of IET Power Electronics Now Available in IEEE Xplore® IET Power Electronics, a new journal from the IET brings together five principal power electronics themes. The journal, now available in IEEE Xplore, focuses on the specific power electronics areas of applications of power semiconductor technology, circuits, devices, techniques and performance management. The inaugural issue of IET Power Electronics highlights concerns in novel power converter topology; isolated zero-voltage transition PWM converters; forced oscillation in LC circuits; and new options for large power and high-quality AC-DC conversion.” Read the first issue

Source: What’s New @ IEEE in Libraries, April 2008

Wiley-Blackwell launches Journal of Flood Risk Management - 06 May 2008

Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced the launch of the Journal of Flood Risk Management. One of Europe’s leading experts in flooding and wastewater management, David Balmforth, Technical Director of MWH, will serve as Editor-in-Chief.

Published in partnership with the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), the journal seeks to provide an international forum for exploring the interactions between the diverse fields that comprise the management of flood risk worldwide. The first issue will publish in May 2008.

A quarterly publication, the Journal of Flood Risk Management will comprise peer-reviewed original papers, review articles, and editorials covering such areas as hydrology, coastal, storm and surge, climate change, modeling, infrastructure management, flood event management and disaster recovery, flood forecasting/warning, land use management/spatial planning, policy and legislation, uncertainty analysis and risk and health and social aspects of flooding. All articles will be free of charge for the first year of publication.”

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, May 6, 2008

“BioMed Central launches new OA journal - Biotechnology for Biofuels - 05 May 2008

Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of a new, open-access journal - Biotechnology for Biofuels. Michael Himmel, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal, Chris Somerville, and Charles Wyman will serve as Editors-in-Chief of the journal. They will be supported by an international editorial board.

Biotechnology for Biofuels emphasises understanding and advancing the application of biotechnology and synergistic operations to improve plants and biological conversion systems for the production of fuels from lignocellulosic biomass and any related economic, environmental and policy issues. The journal features the latest cutting-edge research in the field, reviews and commentary articles from both Academia and Industry. Also, it will run a blog, dedicated to all aspects of the biofuels world.

BioMed Central will officially launch the journal at the forthcoming 30th symposium of Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, in New Orleans.”

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, May 5, 2008

“International Journal of System of Systems Engineering covers the evolution and current developments in the field of system of systems and systems engineering concepts. The journal emphasises on the implications of the fact that new developments on technical and non-technical systems are merging. A free download of papers from this first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=184.”

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter

” Materials science journal STAM converts to no-fee open access model - 08 Jul 2008

The journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) has reportedly converted to a no-fee open access (OA) model with its January-March issue. The journal is being published by Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in partnership with IOP Publishing.

STAM, sponsored by NIMS, is a web-based, OA source of information on international developments in materials science. According to the editorial in the first issue, the contents are free to read, there is an ‘author friendly’ copyright policy, and there are no publication charges. By employing this publication model, NIMS hopes to contribute to the research activities of materials scientists worldwide.

Further, to give greater worldwide visibility to authors, copies of the journal will be distributed free of charge at international conferences. In addition, the STAM website will feature regularly updated news and research summaries of important developments.”

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, July 8, 2008

“New OA journal on energy research and policy launched - 11 Jul 2008

Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Switzerland, has launched a new open access (OA) journal - Energies. Dr. Edwin Kessler, founding Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA, serves as Editor-in-Chief.

Energies is a peer-reviewed journal of related scientific research, technology development and policy and management studies. The journal’s coverage includes subject area’s such as energy sources; energy infrastructure; energy applications; energy saving and efficiency; and other general energy topics.

The inaugural issue of the journal is currently available online at http://www.mdpi.org/energies/list08.htm#issue1. Authors are invited [to] contribute long research papers or comprehensive review papers for consideration and publication in Energies. Papers published are immediately indexed by Google Scholar.” Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, July 11, 2008

” Inderscience announces inaugural issues of five new journals - 14 Jul 2008

STM and business publisher Inderscience, Switzerland, has published the first issues of 5 new titles. The new journals are: International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems; International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets; International Journal of Inventory Research; International Journal of Private Law; and International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing.

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems covers foundational, engineering and technological aspects of communications systems exhibiting emergent and adaptive behaviour. The journal seeks to address research being undertaken by an interdisciplinary research computing community - and to provide a common platform under which this work can be published and disseminated. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=263.

International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets encourages application of research methods to solve specific business-related problems in emerging markets. The journal aims to promote articles that are based on the unification of the theoretical-quantitative or the empirical-qualitative approach, and that propose future research directions for scholars and recommend actionable business strategies for managers. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=249.

International Journal of Inventory Research stimulates innovative inventory research and its application for improving the productivity, customer satisfaction and competitiveness of manufacturing firms, retailers, logistics providers and all organisations that manage inventories. Although the journal maintains a focus on inventory theory, it deals with operational as well as strategic issues, with specific inventory models as well as with general supply chain issues, with firm-level as well as macroeconomic perspectives. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=178.

International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing deals with science-based sustainability principles and their applications in innovative products, processes and systems for manufacturing with emphasis on economic, environmental and societal aspects of sustainability. The journal covers the biocomplexity of the environment and its associated technological challenges facing the needs of the society for economic growth and prosperity as applied to design and manufacturing of discrete products. A free download of the papers from this first issue is available at http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=127.”

Source: Knowledgespeak Newletter, Bastille Day, 2008

Today the Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its new journal, Energy and Environmental Science is freely available in 2008 and 2009. They do ask each individual to register for access, however.

A new journal linking all aspects of the chemical sciences relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies and environmental science.

In the IEEE “What’s New” newsletter, they announce a decision to publish 6 new titles:

+IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

+IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

+IEEE Embedded Systems Letters

+IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

+IEEE Photonics Journal

+IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine

To read other news, including statistics on increasing citations to IEEE journals, here is the link

“Oxford University Press announces forthcoming journal on OA databases in biology - 29 Jul 2008

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), UK, has announced plans to launch a new online-only journal - The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. Computational biologist David Landsmann will serve as the journal’s editor-in-chief.

Scheduled for launch in January 2009, the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation aims to strengthen the bridge between database developers and users. It seeks to provide a platform for ‘novel ideas in database research surrounding biological information.’ The journal will reportedly cover only open-access databases.”

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, July 29th.

“New Release: IEEE Applications & Practice Magazine IEEE recently released its first ePub title in IEEE Xplore®, IEEE Applications & Practice Magazine. This ePub marks the beginning of a new publishing method that allows for faster publishing of fresh and dynamic content to ensure that information on new topics can be available quickly. Intended to be a source of timely, significant and technically-reviewed articles, tutorials and application notes, the ePub is an add-on to our existing IEEE Communications Magazine. To access IEEE Applications & Practice Magazine, users should visit the IEEE Communications Magazine Web page in IEEE Xplore.
View the current issue of IEEE Applications & Practice Magazine”

Source: What’s New @ IEEE, August 2008

Princeton University subscribes to IEEE Xplore. IEEE Applications & Practice, as well as IEEE Communications Magazine are listed in the main catalog and the e-journals lists.

LHC Technical Reports published in the Journal of Instrumentation - 26 Aug 2008

The Journal of Instrumentation (JINST), jointly published by IOP Publishing and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), has announced the publication of the complete scientific documentation of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine and detectors, which is claimed to be the world’s largest experimental facility in particle physics. The seven major articles, covering the entire LHC project, are published as a special issue of the Journal of Instrumentation and are available online at http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.lhc/jinst.

In time for the LHC start-up on September 10, the articles form a complete scientific documentation of the design and construction of the LHC machine, and all six detectors (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, LHCf and TOTEM). These articles will serve as key references for the stream of scientific results that will begin to emerge from the LHC soon after the first collisions expected later this year.

Journal of Instrumentation is a peer-reviewed journal created by the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) and IOP Publishing. The journal covers major areas related to concepts and instrumentation in detector physics, accelerator science and associated experimental methods and techniques, theory, modelling and simulations.

Press release.

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter, August 26, 2008