Journal Guide

Ubiquity Proceedings is a low-cost, 100% open access proceedings journal, publishing the output from conferences within all disciplines. The focus of the journal is to provide a platform for conference organisers to easily publish and disseminate the content of their conferences on a professional and fully index journal platform in an affordable manner. The journal is not subject specific and will consider applications from conferences of all disciplines.

BMC Proceedings is a peer-reviewed open access online journal publishing proceedings from conferences, including both peer-reviewed full articles and collections of meeting abstracts. Devoted specifically to conference publications, BMC Proceedings aims to provide open access journal publication for all types of proceedings, including large collections of articles, meetings of specialised interest and conferences of a cross- or multi-disciplinary nature. Content is not restricted to any particular discipline within biomedicine and all proceedings are published without barriers to access.

ARPHA Proceedings is a novel, open access, human- and machine-readable platform designed to assist conference organisers in authoring, submission, peer review, editorial management, publication and dissemination of conference proceedings in any field of science, published with DOI in semantic HTML, XML and PDF.

ARPHA Proceedings allows for innovative publication of extended proceedings that may include figures, citations and data. Video recordings, posters and presentations can be uploaded in bulk after the conference.

ARPHA Proceedings is supported by the ARPHA journal publishing platform, which is the first workflow to support the full life cycle of a manuscript, from writing through submission, peer review, publication, dissemination and archiving within a single online collaborative environment.

Published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Biosciences covers all areas of Biology and is India’s premier journal within its scope. It is indexed in Current Contents and other standard Biological and Medical databases. The Journal of Biosciences began in 1934 as the Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Section B). In 1978 it split into Proceedings-Animal Sciences, Proceedings-Plant Sciences and Proceedings-Experimental Biology. Proceedings-Experimental Biology was renamed Journal of Biosciences in 1979; in 1991, it merged with Proceedings-Animal Sciences and Proceedings-Plant Sciences. Articles span a broad range of relevant topics, including, for example, protein classification by surface comparisons; the contribution of bioinformatics to genome and genomics research, and mathematical modelling of spatio-temporal interactions within the cell.

Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings is the premier publication outlet for the proceedings of key conferences on nuclear and high-energy physics and related areas. The series covers both large international conferences and topical meetings. The newest discoveries and the latest developments, reported at carefully selected meetings, are published covering experimental as well as theoretical particle physics, nuclear and hadronic physics, cosmology, astrophysics and gravitation, field theory and statistical systems, and physical mathematics.

Materials Today: Proceedings provides the materials science community with a fast and flexible route to the publication of research presented at leading scientific conferences spanning the field of materials science, technology and engineering. Conference proceedings are only accepted for publication in Materials Today: Proceedings after a full assessment from the Materials Today editorial team. All papers must be original, and peer-review is mandatory.

What can Materials Today: Proceedings offer authors and conference organizers?

Accepted proceedings are published on ScienceDirect and available via www.MaterialsToday.comwww.MaterialsToday.com within 8 weeks of receipt of the final manuscripts. Organizers are also welcome to order print issues, CDs and USBs. There is no limit to the amount of papers an issue can contain.

Supported by the journal Editor, organizers are fully credited with their issue and are responsible for quality control, the review process and the content of individual conference papers.

Templates (both Latex and Word) are provided to assist in the publication and the final online papers contain linked references, XML versions and DOI numbers.

Is the journal Open Access?

The journal offers Full Open Access, Hybrid Open Access and traditional Subscription based publishing options. The cost for both Open Access Issues and Open Access articles is set at a special introductory rate of $100 per paper for conferences accepted before 31st December 2015.

If you are a conference organiser interested in publishing conference proceedings in the journal, please complete the proposal template available from http://about.elsevier.com/media/MTdigital/MATPR_Proposal.dochere and email:

Dr. Stewart Bland
Editor: Materials Today, Materials Today: Proceedings
s.bland@elsevier.com

One of the premier peer-reviewed clinical journals in general and internal medicine, Mayo Clinic Proceedings is among the most widely read and highly cited scientific publications for physicians, with a circulation of approximately 125,000. While the Proceedings is sponsored by Mayo Clinic, it welcomes submissions from authors worldwide, publishing articles that focus on clinical medicine and support the professional and educational needs of its readers.Continuously published since 1926, the Mayo Clinic Proceedings' content includes Nobel-prize-winning research. The Proceedings has an impact factor of 5.79, placing it in the top 7% of 155 journals in the Medicine, General and Internal category. The Proceedings has increased its Impact Factor in 12 of the last 13 years.Mayo Clinic Proceedings welcomes manuscripts that focus on clinical and laboratory medicine, health care policy and economics, medical education and ethics, and related topics:Each monthly issue presents approximately 15 individual articles and features, consisting of original research, reviews, clinical content, editorials, commentaries, brief reports, special articles, and other short items.Among unique articles are Concise Review for Clinicians, Residents' Clinics, and specially commissioned Symposia.My Treatment Approach articles present expert opinion on difficult clinical situations.Consensus Guidelines provide answers to questions not resolved in other published guidelines.The journal carries articles that offer free CME credit from Mayo Clinic.The Proceedings also offers substantial online-only content as well as supplemental material and videos directly related to individual articles.For authors, the time from receipt of submission to first decision is usually 3 weeks and from acceptance to publication is 12 weeks. Mayo Clinic Proceedings' acceptance rate is approximately 25%, with more than 75% of manuscripts submitted by non-Mayo authors. For novel, time-sensitive research, an expedited review is available upon request and at the discretion of the Editorial Board.

The Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval publishes novel scientific research in the field of music information retrieval (MIR), an interdisciplinary research area concerned with processing, analysing, organising and accessing music information. We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, musicology, cognitive science, library & information science and electrical engineering.

TISMIR was established to complement the widely cited ISMIR conference proceedings and provide a vehicle for the dissemination of the highest quality and most substantial scientific research in MIR. TISMIR retains the Open Access model of the ISMIR Conference proceedings, providing rapid access, free of charge, to all journal content. In order to encourage reproducibility of the published research papers, we provide facilities for archiving the software and data used in the research. To avoid excessive cost to the authors or their institutions, TISMIR is published in electronic-only format.

Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society has been published without a break since 1839 and welcomes original research papers on all aspects of geology.