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2006 News
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Now IJ Exergy goes to 6 issues in 2008
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 The International Journal of Exergy becomes the latest (sixth) of Inderscience titles to increase its issues in 2006. This well-regarded title was accepted into Science Citation Index in 2006.
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IJ Modelling, Identification and Control goes to 8 issues in 2008
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Sponsorship Success - Pictures
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 Inderscience were delighted to be Gold sponsors of the Information Professionals' Christmas Party, held at the Science Museum in November. Some 500 people attended the prestigious event, hosted by six information groups, which proved to be a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Click here for photographs. A member of Lexis-Nexis won the main prize, donated by Inderscience, in the Prize Draw. Part of the prize (a year's free access to 100 new Inderscience titles) will be donated by Lexi-Nexis to an academic or government library of their choice in the USA. Thanks are due to Annabel Colley, Business Manager of the City Information Group for her exemplary organisation of the Party
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New Title, Editor for Food Safety Management
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Core Nanoscience/technology Collection Formed
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RSS Feed for Calls for Papers
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Inderscience offers the convenience of RSS feeds, which provide a means to view new content that is timely posted to your web site or desktop. Our RSS feeds are organised by channels. The New Articles Channel http://www.inderscience.com/rss/rss.php has now been joined by the Call for Papers Channel http://www.inderscience.com/rss/calls.php. The New Articles Channel contents the latest articles published in our journals. The Call for Papers Channel announces the latest call for papers for special issues to be published by Inderscience. For further information on the new Channel and on RSS and its benefits, please visit http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=14
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I J Machining and Machinability of Materials moves to 6 issues in 2008
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New Editor for IJ Public Sector Performance Management
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 Inderscience is delighted to announce that Professor Robert Fouchet, Dean of the Institute of Public Management at the Paul Cezanne University in Aix-en-Provence, France, is now setting up and developing the International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management. The journal will emphasise the implementation of performance management technologies; this perspective acknowledges the complexity of performance management in the public sector as an interface between the values placed upon public sector activities and their implementation.
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IJRAM goes to 8 issues for 2007
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 Due to the popularity of the International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management (a sign of the times we live in?), the number of issues of this journal will increase to 8 in 2007, with further increases on the cards for 2008. IJRAM becomes the 11th title to announce an increase in issues for 2007, with a further three having already decided to expand in 2008.
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World Sustainable Development Outlook 2006 now published
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 Inderscience is pleased to announce the publication of WORLD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OUTLOOK 2006 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Global and Local Resources in Achieving Sustainable Development (WASD 2006). The publication may be purchased (online or in hard copy) for 160.00 Euros.
The WORLD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OUTLOOK series is developed to address growing concerns for the future of our inter-locked ecological, political and economic systems in a highly populated world that is characterised by major social and economic disparities. The main objective is to provide an overview of Sustainable Development (SD) and why it is important and to provoke forward thinking on the development of a more coherent approach to solving global problems related to sustainability.
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Inderscience is Gold Sponsor for Information Professionals event
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Inderscience is proud to be one of only two Gold Sponsors for the prestigious Information Professionals Christmas Party to be held at the Science Museum, London, immediately before the Online Information 2006 exhibition. The event is hosted jointly by six information groups, the Association UK Media Librarians (AUKML), British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL), City Information Group (CiG), City Legal Information Group (CLIG), Industrial and Commercial Libraries Group (ICLG) and Special Libraries Association Europe (SLA Europe). |
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 The International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education has new Co-Editors-in-Chief. They are Professor Bradley T. Ewing, Jerry S. Rawls Professor in Operations Management and Director of the Center for Professional Development/Management & Executive Education at the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University, and Professor Mark A. Thompson from the Institute for Economic Advancement at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. We are extremely grateful to the previous editor, Professor Angappa Gunasekaran, Director of the Business Innovation Research Center (BIRC) at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, for his sterling efforts in setting up and developing the journal to its current status. |
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Inderscience Journal Manager to receive WASD award
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IJEM and IJRAM co-sponsor National Emergency Management Summit
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IJESB joins IJOR and IJSNet in expanding for 2008
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 The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business is following in the footsteps of IJOR and IJSNet (below) by increasing the number of its issues from 2008. Having gone from 4 to 6 issues this year, it finds that this will be insufficient to cope with the submission of quality papers it is receiving, and will go to 8 issues from 2008. |
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IJOR and IJSNet expand for 2008
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IJNT latest to go to 6 issues
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 Lionel Vayssieres, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Nanotechnology becomes the tenth editor to announce an increase in the number of issues for 2007. IJNT will publish six issues from next year. |
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More journals to increase issues in 2007
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Following the earlier announcement of four journals expanding the number of their issues from four to six per year, another four journals have also stated their intentions to increase their frequency in 2007:
From four issues to SIX issues per year:
From eight to TWELVE issues per year:
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4 journals to increase issues in 2007
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Not only is Inderscience increasing the number of titles it publishes, it is also increasing the number of issues of some journals. From 2007, the following titles will be published in SIX issues rather than four:
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Journal of Design Research published by Inderscience
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 Volume 5(1) of the Journal of Design Research is the first issue to be published by Inderscience following the agreement with the TU Delft to take responsibility for the journal. Previously-published issues have also been transferred to the journal's home page.
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IJNVO, IJEntTM have new editors
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Royal Academy of Engineering 2006 Hinton lecture to be given by Inderscience Editor
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New Editors for 4 Inderscience Titles
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As well as editing two of the newly-announced titles, (International Journal
of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies and International Journal of
Monetary Economics and Finance), Dr Bruno Sergi from the University of Messina in Italy has also recently taken over responsibility for developing the existing title, International Journal of Trade and Global Markets.
Another hard-working Editor is Professor Lenny Koh from the University of Sheffield. Having just overseen publication of the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Enterprise Network Management, Professor Koh has also taken over responsibility for developing existing Inderscience titles, the International Journal of Logistics and Economic Globalisation and the International Journal of Value Chain Management.
Professor Waguih H. ElMaraghy from the University of Windsor in Canada will start work this autumn in developing the International Journal of Complexity.
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM'06) available now!
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10,000 Online Articles
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A milestone has been reached with the addition of the 10,000th online article to the Inderscience electronic collection. The article, on the theoretical dimensions of industrial ecology (http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=recor d&rec_id=10054&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or) from a Special Issue of Progress in Industrial Ecology, marks further evidence of the rapid growth in the Inderscience collection. All online Inderscience articles are freely searchable via this site, although full text is restricted to subscribers and pay-per-view.
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Inderscience News Weblog
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Inderscience now has a weblog (also known as a blog) to provide a wider range of news items than is possible on this site. It incorporates an RSS feed so if you use a newsreader like Bloglines you can keep up with new items as they are added to the blog.
The blog will contain items such as new titles that have been announced, new
issues of the Highlights newsletter, calls for papers, announcement of the inaugural issue of new journals, the contents list for special issues, significant articles, selective editorials, new editors that have been appointed, and so on.
The blog is at http://inderscience.blogspot.com and is also linked from the Services section of the Inderscience home page. |
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Nuclear Collection Complete
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The inaugural issue of the International Journal of Nuclear Hydrogen
Production and Applications completes the eight-journal Inderscience Nuclear Collection, under the editorship of Professor Dr. André Maïsseu, from WONUC - the World Council of Nuclear Workers based in France. This unique collection addresses research and development issues in all aspects of nuclear science, technology, governance and law, making it one of the primary sources of information in the field.
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Inderscience Editor elected Fellow of the Royal Society
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Under the heading, Forty-four New Fellows of the Royal Society Join Ranks of Science Greats (http://www.royalsociety.org/news.asp?id=4719), it has been announced [19 May 2006] that Professor Calestous Juma is one of those who has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science. For further details of Professor Juma's career, please see the item on the PJ Patterson Institute below or go to the following website.
http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/person.cfm?order_by=name&program=CORE&ln=&item_
id=258
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PJ Patterson Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation
announced by Professor Juma
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Professor Calestous Juma, Editor of the International Journal of Biotechnology, Co-Editor of the International Journal of Technology and Gloablisation, and Associate Editor of International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, announced on the 17 February the creation of the PJ Patterson Institute on Science, Technology and Innovation in honour of the retiring Prime Minister of Jamaica. The Institute will start working on the role of information and communications technologies in sustainable development.
The Institute will also be a centre for training senior officers in government, business and civil society. In addition, it will be a platform for policy leaders to discuss new ideas and to examine available options. It will hold a series of Distinguished Patterson lectures on Science, Technology and Innovation and will also award the Patterson Prize to an enterprise, individual, a business or country which demonstrates global leadership in using technology for development.
This international venture is the first institutional response to the recommendation of the UN Millennium Project's Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation. More will follow in other regions.
Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard University. He is a former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi, and he also served as Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Art and Science and a member of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences. He has won several international awards for his work on sustainable development. He is National Associate of the U.S. National Academies and has served on its committees on science advice, geographical information sciences, and biotechnology.
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Editor appointed for International Journal of Sustainable Design |
Professor Aleksandar Subic, Head of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the
RMIT University in Australia, has been appointed to develop the International Journal of Sustainable Design. Professor Subic heads an active research programme in this area.
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Title Change - International Journal of Information Policy and Law now International Journal of Technology Policy and Law
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The title of the forthcoming journal, International Journal of Information Policy and Law, has been amended so that it is now International Journal of Technology Policy and Law. The journal, under the editorship of Professor Dr. Eldon Li, is currently setting up and will be published in 2007
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IJGEI in the press
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A feature on an article from IJGEI appears in The Guardian, entitled Debate heats up over Earth’s population.
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Inderscience Editor chosen as Computer Educator of the Year 2005
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Dr. Binshan Lin, the BellSouth Corporation Professor at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, has been chosen as the winner of the Computer Educator of the Year 2005 by the International Association of Computer Information Systems (IACIS www.iacis.org). The IACIS recognizes one outstanding educator annually as the Computer Educator of the year. The Computer Educator of the Year is the highest award given by the Association, and competition for the award is keen. Candidates must show exceptional research and teaching skills, have made significant contributions to Information Systems (IS ) and IS education, and enjoy a national or international reputation for their outstanding work throughout the IS community. Recent recipients have included curriculum innovators, leaders in the field of artificial intelligence and IS management, and publishers of learning materials that have significantly impacted the IS community.
Professor Lin is the Editor-in-Chief of eight Inderscience titles:
Electronic Government, an International Journal;
International Journal of Electronic Finance;
International Journal of Electronic Healthcare;
International Journal of Innovation and Learning;
International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development;
International Journal Of Management in Education;
International Journal of Mobile Communications; and
International Journal of Services and Standards.
He is also an Editorial Board member of a further eight Inderscience titles. |
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Proceedings of the International Conference on 12th International Workshop on Systems, Signals & Image Processing (IWSSIP 2005) available now!
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM'05) available now!
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IJAAPE and IJIPT Editors honoured
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IJAAPE and IJIPT Editors honoured
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2006 New Titles Announced |
December 2006
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March 2006
The announcement of these four titles brings the total number of Inderscience titles [published and setting up] to over 200
February 2006
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2005 New Titles Announced |
December 2005
In addition to the titles (below) registered earlier in the year (August 2005, below),
Inderscience announces five new titles:
August 2005
Inderscience Publishers is proud to announce the acquisition of three titles and the formation of ten others. Details on how to submit papers are on the journals' home pages.
The Journal for Global Business Advancement and the Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development, developed under the auspices of the Academy for Global Business Advancement, will also be published in both formats from 2006.
In addition, the following new Inderscience titles have been announced and are currently in the process of setting up. They are
In addition, the title changes have been made to two forthcoming journals:
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Journals Published Previously
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