{"201121":{"#nid":"201121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Collaborates with Other Leading Research Universities on New, Open Access, Scientific Journal","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has joined forces with a global scientific publisher and four other leading research universities to launch a new, open-access, scientific journal called \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/elementascience.org\/\u0022\u003EElementa: Science of the Anthropocene\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EElementa \u003C\/em\u003Eis the result of a collaborative effort among BioOne, Dartmouth, Georgia Tech, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Michigan, and the University of Washington. As a member of this\u0026nbsp;campus-based publishing collaboration, Georgia Tech is strategically positioned to maximize the dissemination of new knowledge\u0026nbsp;related to the Earth\u0027s physical, chemical, and biological systems during this era of human impact.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022\u003Cem\u003EElementa \u003C\/em\u003Eis a terrific opportunity for Georgia Tech, as well as a much more sustainable economic model for libraries,\u0022 said \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/page\/about\/organization\/board#Catherine\u0022\u003ECatherine Murray-Rust\u003C\/a\u003E, Vice Provost for Learning Excellence and Dean of Libraries at Georgia Tech. Murray-Rust serves on the board of BioOne, which is a non-profit collaboration that brings together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I think it is really exciting for us [library] to have peer-reviewed, scholarly content that is freely available and for scholars to get their research out there to the world in a high-quality journal,\u0022 added Murray-Rust. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnlike many scholarly journals, \u003Cem\u003EElementa \u003C\/em\u003Eis free and open to readers without subscription fees, while authors must pay a reasonable fee to submit their work. It serves as an alternative publisher of science research to the large, commercial publishing companies that charge libraries millions of dollars each year to provide access to faculty and students. Each article submitted to \u003Cem\u003EElementa \u003C\/em\u003Ewill undergo a rapid, but rigorous, peer-review process.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAuthors retain copyright to their work and other scholars are allowed to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt it, provided proper attribution is given.\u0026nbsp;Articles published in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EElementa\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewill be available in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Emachine\u003C\/em\u003E- as well as human-intelligible formats: HTML, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket, XML, and JSON. The journal is organized into six knowledge domains, all of which are lead by a prominent Editor-in-Chief.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/elementascience.org\/about\/expertise-and-collaboration\/michael-e-chang\/\u0022\u003EDr. Michael Chang\u003C\/a\u003E, Deputy Director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech, is the Editor-in-Chief of the Sustainable Engineering domain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What first attracted me to\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EElementa\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;was the vision of the founders to rethink and redesign the very fundamental nature of academic publishing.\u0026nbsp;We think of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EElementa\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;as a model of academic publishing for the future,\u0022 said Chang. \u0022From open access to dissemination via social media (that is also becoming increasingly mobile) to the business model of publishing to the metrics we use to measure impact,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EElementa\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a ground-up reinvention of the way the research community communicates even as it holds onto the requirement of rigor in peer review.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs Editor-in-Chief, Chang\u0027s role is three-fold. He will serve authors by ensuring the review process is fair, robust, and rapid; advance the science and engineering community by raising the awareness of topics and issues emerging in the field of sustainable engineering; and work to ensure \u003Cem\u003EElementa\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;becomes a stable, enduring open access journal for the publication and dissemination of the most important research in the epoch of the Anthropocene.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As all of our economic and ecological futures are now irreversibly and globally connected, it is vital that we understand how this massively complex, hybrid natural-human system works, and how we, as the newly ordained greatest agents of change, are changing it, intentionally and otherwise,\u0022 said Chang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EElementa\u003C\/em\u003E is slated to start accepting its first articles in April 2013 with an official launch set for July 2013. For more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022elementascience.org\u0022\u003Eelementascience.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has joined forces with a global scientific publisher and four other leading research universities to launch a new, open-access, scientific journal called \u003Cem\u003EElementa: Science of the Anthropocene\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has joined forces with a global scientific publisher and four other leading research universities to launch a new, open-access, scientific journal called Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene"}],"uid":"27508","created_gmt":"2013-03-21 10:15:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:55","author":"Tearanny Street","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"201171":{"id":"201171","type":"image","title":"Dr. Michael Chang","body":null,"created":"1449179943","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:59:03","changed":"1475894853","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:33","alt":"Dr. Michael Chang","file":{"fid":"196576","name":"012000-p5-135.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/012000-p5-135_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/012000-p5-135_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1397393,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/012000-p5-135_0.jpg?itok=7iqWHFcb"}},"204071":{"id":"204071","type":"image","title":"Catherine Murray-Rust","body":null,"created":"1449179967","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:59:27","changed":"1475894859","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:39","alt":"Catherine Murray-Rust","file":{"fid":"196668","name":"catherine.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/catherine_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/catherine_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":18048,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/catherine_0.png?itok=DsoS86Fw"}}},"media_ids":["201171","204071"],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETearanny Street\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Library\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Tearanny.Street@library.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}