Inderscience has now published over 30,000 papers online. This milestone has been reached in its 30th year of publishing journals, and comes as it is fast approaching its 300th published title - a nice hat-trick to be celebrating as we push on towards further expansion in the New Year.

Dr. Ken Revett from the University of Westminster School of Electronics and Computer Science in the UK has agreed to take over development of the International Journal of Cognitive Performance Support. The journal has been on our books for a while and nicely complements the journal Dr. Revett has just announced, the International Journal of Cognitive Biometrics.

Meanwhile, Dr. M.A. Dorgham and Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mercado Kierkegaard, joint Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, have appointed Professor Johanna K.P Dennis from the Vermont Law School in the USA and Angela Adrian of the Department of Law at Bournemouth University in the UK as Editors of the journal. They will be involved in the editorial process in 2010 with a view to taking over as Editors-in-Chief in 2011.

Finally, the founding editor of the International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management, Dr. John Parnell, Belk Chair of Management at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, has decided to step down having got the journal off the ground. The current Regional Editor for Latin America, Dr. John E. Spillan of the Department of Management, Marketing & International Business at the same University, will take over as Editor-in-Chief from January 2010.

Professor Fengzhou Fang, Director of the Centre of MicroNano Manufacturing Technology in the College of Precision Instruments & Opto-Electronics Engineering at Tianjin University in China, has agreed to take over the editorship of the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing. He will be assisted in this task by Professor Jack Luo of the Centre for Materials Research and Innovation at the University of Bolton in the UK. The Journal, now in its fifth volume, has made a successful start under previous Editors, Dr. Mark Jackson and Professor Waqar Ahmed, who have now moved on to pursue other interests.

Professor Anca Ralescu from the University of Cincinnati Department of Computer Science has agreed to join the Editorial Team of the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms as a Co-Editor-in-Chief. The journal will be publishing its second volume in 2010 and Professor Ralescu will help maintain and build on its successful start.

Professor Panayiotis H. Ketikidis, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, has announced that, as a result of the interest shown in his new journal, it will increase its frequency of issues from volume 3, 2011, from four to six.

Prof. D.Y. Li of the Departments of Chemical and Materials Engineering, and Bio-medical Engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton will take over editorship of the International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials. Professor Li's research interests include nano- and bio-tribology, photocatalytic materials, surface science/engineering, computational materials science, and bio-medical interfacial interaction. IJNBM will be into its third year of publishing next year.

Meanwhile, Professor Jonathan Liu, International Visiting Professor in Global Business Management at the Regent's Business School of Regent's College, London, has agreed to take over the running, as Executive Editor, of the well-established International Journal of Business Performance Management, which will be publishing its 12th volume next year.

Professor Weiping Cai, Director of the Institute of Solid State Physics and Head of the Key Lab of Materials Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has undertaken to continue the development of the International Journal of Nanoparticles from 2011. Professor Cai's research interests span nanoparticles' assembly (patterning), nanostructured arrays and devices, and the physics and chemistry of nanoparticles. He has published more than 130 papers in the international journals.

Prof. Quan Min Zhu from the Bristol Institute of Technology at the University of the West of England has taken over the editorship of the established and highly regarded International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, which has been in publication since 1999 and now publishes 12 issues per year. Professor Zhu has proved to be a highly effective and efficient editor, having already proposed, developed and taken into its seventh volume the International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control. This journal, too, now publishes 12 issues per year, having started publication in 2006.

Prof. Quan Min Zhu from the Bristol Institute of Technology at the University of the West of England has taken over the editorship of the established and highly regarded International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, which has been in publication since 1999 and now publishes 12 issues per year. Professor Zhu has proved to be a highly effective and efficient editor, having already proposed, developed and taken into its seventh volume the International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control. This journal, too, now publishes 12 issues per year, having started publication in 2006.

The International Journal of Public Policy has announced that from 2010 it will increase the number of issues from 6 to 8 per year. Perhaps this is hardly surprising, given the subject coverage of the journal and the recent events affecting it; as the journal's description says, "The emphasis [of the journal] will be on governance, accountability, the creation of wealth and wellbeing, and the implications policy choices have on nation states and their citizens.

The previously-announced International Journal of Luxury Intelligence has changed its title to Luxury Intelligence: an International Journal, to avoid conflict with a previously-unknown trademark. Professor Mounir Kehal of the International University of Monaco in Monte Carlo will continue the development of the journal under its new title.

Inderscience is delighted to announce that Professor Brian F. Towler (http://wwweng.uwyo.edu/chemical/faculty/towler.html), CEAS Fellow for Hydrocarbon Energy Resources in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming, has taken on responsibility for the development and publication of the International Journal of Petroleum Engineering. Professor Towler will announce the formation of his new Editorial Board in due course.

Professor Andrew K. Dragun and Professor Kristin Jakobsson have agreed to take over the editorship of both the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology and the International Journal of Water. Both Professors Dragun and Jakobsson are from the Australian Rivers Institute at Griffith University in Nathan, Queensland in Australia. These two established titles are part of Inderscience's substantial collection of Energy and Environment journals (www.inderscience.com/eesd).

Professor Mark Goh from the National University of Singapore Business School has joined Professor Robert De Souza, Executive Director of The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific and Adjunct Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Agile Systems and Management. IJASM is in its fourth year of publication.

The European Journal of International Management has announced an increase in its issues from 4 to 6, starting in 2010. The Executive Editor of the ISI-indexed journal, Vlad Vaiman from Reykjavik University, has seen a steady increase in interest since its launch in 2007 and looks forward to further development with the additional issues.

The International Journal of Business and Globalisation has announced a doubling in size, with the result that it will be publishing two volumes (8 issues) per year from volumes 4 and 5, 2010 onwards.

Two further journals have announced increases in issue frequency for 2010. The International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation has only just completed its first volume, but its editor, Dr. Zhihua Cui from the Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, has received sufficient interest to announce that 6 issues will be published per year from 2010. The International Journal of Innovation and Learning is a more established title which has had one increase already. Its new editor, Dr. Kongkiti Phusavat from Kasetsart University, feels that two volumes (eight issues per year) are now justifiable from 2010.

Professor Byung Rae Cho from Clemson University Department of Industrial Engineering has taken over the editorship of the International Journal of Quality Engineering and Technology and will continue its development to publication. The journal, proposed and set up by Professor Jiju Antony to whom we are duly grateful, will complement the other title edited by Professor Byung Rae Cho, the International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation.

The newly-published International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems has already announced its intention of increasing the number of issues published from four to six from 2010, confirming its successful recent launch.

Two more titles will now be published in two volumes (eight issues) from 2010. These are the International Journal of Business Information Systems and the International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, while the International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research moves from four to six issues from 2010.

Our previous announcement in 2008 said, "The International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology has announced an increase in issue frequency from 4 to 6, starting in 2010. Editor-in-Chief, Nilmini Wickramasinghe says, "It is good to know there is so much high quality research in this area and I suspect this will only grow". This suspicion has proved correct, and the journal will now be published in 8 issues, rather than 6, from 2010.

The Inderscience collection of online papers has now passed the 25,000 mark. It indicates the continued strong publishing growth of Inderscience, with the journal total having now reached 268 and still increasing. This significant, fully searchable collection of full-text research literature is available, either as a whole or in part at discounted rates. You may, of course, search the bibliographic data, including abstracts, free of charge from www.inderscience.com. For full-text access, we offer flexible subscription plans and packages to help you build a collection to suit the needs and interests of you or your institution. Choose the complete collection or titles you want from across the whole range of our subject collections and contact info@inderscience.com or fax: +44 (0)1234 240515 for details of the cost.

A new subject heading has been created - Knowledge Studies - to reflect the growth of interest in this topic and the number of titles (currently 10) Inderscience now has which address it. The topic is part of the Education, Knowledge and Learning section of the Inderscience portfolio.

Professor Binshan Lin has decided to step down from, and Professor Dusan Lesjak has agreed to serve as, the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Management in Education. Professor Lesjak, from the University of Primorska in Solvenia, will work with Dr. Nada Trunk Sirca, from the Euro-Mediterranean University in Slovenia, who has agreed to serve as Executive Editor for the journal. Professor Lin remains as an Editorial Board member.

The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Business and Systems Research, Prof. Jason C.H. Chen from Gonzaga University, has received a sufficient flow of quality submissions to enable him to announce an increase in the journal's issue frequency from 4 to 6 issues per year, starting in 2010.

The International Journal of Hospitality Knowledge Management, which is currently being developed and will be launched later this year, has changed it title to the International Journal of Knowledge Management in Tourism and Hospitality. This change follows discussions with relevant experts in the field and reflects their feedback.

Professor Leszek A. Dobrzanski has stepped down from the editorship of the International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Surface Engineering. We thank him for his efforts in establishing the journal. Its development will continue under the joint editorship of Prof Qingyou Han and Professor Mark Jackson of Purdue University . We welcome them on board; they will re-format the journal coverage and add a new editorial board in due course.

Inderscience is delighted to welcome Dr. Nasr Alkadi, Corporate Energy Manager at General Motors Corporation, who has agreed to take over the running of the International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy. This journal - in an area of crucial importance in the development of answers to global questions of climate, resources and related issues - is into its seventh volume and, with the addition of a new, dynamic editor, can look forward to maintaining and even expanding the fostering, discussion, and dissemination of research in this important field.

Dr. Justin Zhan from the Carnegie Mellon University Cylab Japan in Kobe, Japan, has undertaken to develop the International Journal of Information Integrity, which he has renamed the International Journal of Information Privacy, Security and Integrity.

The continued success of the International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, International Journal of Services and Operations Management and International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering is reflected in their further increase in issue frequency, this time from 6 to 8 issues, starting from the 2010 issues.

The International Journal of Economics and Business Research, which is only publishing its first volume this year, has already announced an increase in the frequency of its issues for 2010, from four to six

Inderscience has introduced a new option for authors. Authors can now request Inderscience to make their articles accepted for publication available online and openly accessible to all without any restriction except use for commercial purposes. This means that readers may access, read, download or print out the article free of charge, even if their library does not hold the journal on subscription. In exchange for these facilities, authors will pay Inderscience a simple fee to cover the cost of publication. Inderscience continues to publish its journals on subscription. This option caters for authors that want to ensure that their work is available to anyone free of charge, Inderscience's Author Open Access Option enable authors to pay a modest fee to provide open access. Inderscience will treat all papers submitted for publication in exactly the same way, with rigorous peer review, professional editing and production, and worldwide publication, including inclusion in the CrossRef citation linking system and in appropriate indexes. If the author takes up the Author Open Access Option, the article will be designated as open access in the journal. For more details, please click here.

Professor Desheng (Dash) Wu, Affiliated Professor at RiskLab and Director of the RiskChina Research Center, both at the University of Toronto, has taken over development of the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development (IJESD). Professor Wu has successfully inaugurated and developed the International Journal of Services Sciences, now in its second year of publication, and aims to continue the progress of IJESD, which is into its eighth volume this year. Not only that, but, together with David R. Koenig, he has also taken over responsibility for the International Journal of Financial Services Management. David Koenig is the founder of Ductilibility, a private research initiative serving Chief Risk Officers and Boards of Directors. He previously served as Chair of the Board of Directors and was a founding member of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA). He served as Chief Executive Officer of PRMIA and President of the PRMIA Institute until September of 2007.

Alexander Brem, from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and Éric Viardot, of the CERAM Business School in France, have recently taken over responsibility for the International Journal of Technology Marketing. The journal, now in its fourth volume, fosters discussion on advances in marketing practice and theory, with emphasis on technology and technology intensive products.

The new Editors pay due respect to the contribution made by the previous editor, Ping Lan from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, for successfully taking the journal to the stage in development from which they can move it on.

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business has announced an increase in the frequency of its issues from 2010. Its current rate of 2 volumes (8 issues) per year will increase to 3 volumes (12 issues per year) from that date onwards.