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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Journal of Small Systems
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What is the Journal of Small Systems?
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Why should I publish in the Journal of Small Systems?
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What is an Open-Access Journal?
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What is new in the Journal of Small Systems?
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What is the current status of scientific publishing?
What is the Journal of Small Systems?
The new Journal of Small Systems presents a new concept in communicating quality scientific results in an open-access environment.
It is intended to combine the best of the two most prominent models of publishing scientific articles, peer-reviewed conventional journals and open-access Web archives, and add additional services by using the full potential of the Internet.
The Journal of Small Systems covers the chemistry and physics of atomic, molecular, and ionic clusters, fullerenes, nanotubes, nanostructures and other small systems.
Why should I publish in the Journal of Small Systems?
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The principle of open access helps to make your article significantly more visible.
Because open-access journals do not charge readers or institutions for access, everybody can read, download and distribute the full text of your article, thus providing very high publicity.
Typically, open-access articles are read and cited 2-10 times more than toll-access articles.
- Rigorous peer-review guarantees that only contributions of the highest scientific quality are accepted. In addition, the interactive discussion of submitted articles, the automatic monitoring of the impact of your article after acceptance, and the additional user-driven ranking of accepted articles will further raise the standard of publications in the Journal of Small Systems.
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You as the author keep the copyright of your publication.
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Significantly added values:
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The interactive discussion forum of the Journal of Small Systems provides you with rapid feedback of the scientific community.
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The automatic generation of search-engine friendly meta-data raises the visibility of your accepted article.
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Possibility to include color graphics, multi-media files etc.
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Rapid publication due to Internet-based, electronic-only document processing.
What is an Open-Access Journal?
Open-access journals do not charge readers or their institutions for access.
According to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, open-access publications have to satisfy the following two conditions:
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The author(s) and right holder(s) of such publications grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
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A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.
What is new in the Journal of Small Systems?
The Journal of Small Systems is not just another scientific journal.
Actually it has three vocations:
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Open-access journal:
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journal overlay
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e-archive overlay
What is the current status of scientific publishing?
You might want to have a look at the following articles:
Can I submit an article to the Journal of Small Systems which I have already archived at arXiv, HAL, or any other Open-Access OAI-compliant data provider (see the list openarchives.org)?
Yes.
What happens if I submit an unpublished paper to the Journal of Small Systems?
The article will be refereed and archived at an OAI-compliant data provider such as Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutsche Bibliothek, etc.
What happens if I submitted my article to another publisher but still want it refereed by the Journal of Small Systems?
The Journal of Small Systems either accepts OAI-compliant archived papers or documents where the author has asked the other publisher for approval.
Why do we need a new journal?
What are META-tags?
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