Announcements

We are pleased to announce that Preprints has passed the milestone of 10,000 posted preprints. We are delighted to have reached this after just over three years of operation. Our congratulations and thanks go to our authors and advisory board who have supported growth of the platform and been crucial to its operation.

You can find further details at https://www.preprints.org/announcement/show/37.

Last week, the DeepGreen initiative in Germany started into an advanced test phase with the publishing partners S. Karger AG, SAGE Publishing, MDPI, Frontiers and De Gruyter, as well as 27 universities from all over Germany, from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences to University of Konstanz.

DeepGreen aims at lowering the barriers for open access publishing by automatically delivering metadata and full text publications from participating publishers to authorized repositories at German universities.

In preparation for a later live operation, the advanced test phase serves to gain experience with extensive data deliveries from publishers and also handling different repository software (including OPUS4, DSpace, EPrints, MyCoRe). DeepGreen thereby acts as a sophisticated platform, receiving articles published by authors affiliated with German universities and depositing these articles to respective university repositories, based on the affiliation metadata. For more information about DeepGreen: https://deepgreen.kobv.de

Karger AG has been a close cooperation partner of the DeepGreen consortium since 2016. S. Karger has more than 80 subscription-based and around 20 open access journals covering a wide spectrum in health science. DeepGreen will assign S. Karger articles to authorized institutions on the legal basis of German alliance and national licenses.

SAGE Publishing  was founded by Sara Miller McCune in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE publishes more than 1,000 journals and over 600 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. Our growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company’s continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne. SAGE Publishing has been a close cooperation partner of DeepGreen since 2016.

MDPI  is a scientific open access publisher and has been a partner of DeepGreen since 2017. MDPI comprises 205 peer-reviewed journals of various disciplines. All articles are published under a CC-BY license and are freely available without embargo period.

Frontiers  is a scientific open access publisher with 61 journals of over 600 academic disciplines. All articles are peer-reviewed and published freely available under CC-BY license.

De Gruyter  is an academic publisher with more than 700 subscription-based and open access journals of 29 disciplines. Articles provided by De Gruyter will be assigned to institutions with German alliance and national licenses.

There is promising communication with other publishers.

DeepGreen is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the consortium comprises six institutions: the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg, Bavarian State Library, Bavarian Library Network, University Library of the Technische Universität Berlin, University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

The University of Basel and the MDPI Sustainability Foundation are organizing the First Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum on 9th September 2019.

The aim of this event is to provide background and perspectives on Plan S to Learned Societies, which have to make well-informed decisions to transition their journals to Open Access (OA).

The BSPF will bring together several representatives of Learned societies, Plan S architects as well as representatives from various publishers and publishing platforms. After getting the big picture from cOAlition S, panel discussions will allow to better understand the diverse challenges that Learned societies are facing to transition their journals to OA as well as to identify sustainable, implementable and scalable solutions for successful Open Access transition.

For program details and registration, please follow the link below:
https://sciforum.net/conference/SustainableSolutionsToOpenAccess

MDPI will be attending the 14th European Congress on Catalysis in Aachen, Germany, 18–23 August 2019

14th European Congress on Catalysis and the location will provide a splendid opportunity to discuss scientific progress, to explore novel technologies and to enjoy hospitality in the Euregio under the motto “Catalysis without Borders”.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Catalysts
• Energies
• Processes
• Polymers
• Symmetry

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #G2). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://europacat2019.eu/.

We are pleased to inform that Catalysts received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 3.444 in the recent release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 3.808. Catalysts now ranks 57/148 (Q2) in the category 'Chemistry, Physical'.

Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Catalysts:

Source: data according to Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, a Clarivate Analytics product; and Scopus journal metrics.

MDPI will be attending the European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2019) in Stockholm, Sweden on 1–5 September 2019.

EUROMAT is the premier international congress in the field of materials science and technology in Europe. The visions of EUROMAT2019 are to:

• Facilitate a programme where academia, research institutes and industry can meet and exchange ideas and provide information on the latest scientific development in
• Promote involvement of top universities and researchers in materials science including special contribution from large scale facilities like MAXIV in Lund
• Demonstrate efficient knowledge transfer between research and its application through the active involvement of research institutes in Sweden like RISE and Swerea

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Materials
Metals
Catalysts
Nanomaterials
Processes
Polymers
Molecules
JFB
Sustainability
Coatings
Inorganics

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#BrB1) in Norra Latin - The Marble Vault. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://euromat2019.fems.eu/.

We will be attending the The 21st European Symposium on Organic Chemistry. Since its first edition in 1979, the biannual ESOC conference has developed into the flagship event for the Organic Chemistry community in Europe and beyond. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Molecules
Chemistry
Molbank
Marine Drugs
Polymers
Coatings
Catalysts
Materials
Processes

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #25). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://esoc2019.conf.tuwien.ac.at/welcome/.

Catalysts, MDPI’s open access journal on catalysts and catalyzed reactions, has published more than 2000 articles and reviews since its inception in 2011. Catalysts is covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded in Web of Science and received an Impact Factor of 3.465 for 2017, which corresponds to rank 55/146 (Q2) in the JCR category ‘Chemistry, Physical’.

Catalysts’s current CiteScore in Scopus is 3.58. The CiteScore is a ratio between the number of citations in 2018 to papers published 2015–2017 in the numerator and the number of papers published 2015–2017 in the denominator, drawn from Scopus data.

Our sincerest thanks go to the Editor-in-Chief of Catalysts, Prof. Dr. Keith Hohn, Section Editor-in-Chiefs Dr. Leonarda Francesca Liotta, Prof. Dr. Jean-François Lamonier, Dr. Vladimiro Dal Santo, Dr. Vincenzo Baglio, Prof. Dr. Adam F. Lee, Dr. Evangelos Topakas, Dr. Juan J. Bravo-Suarez, Prof. Dr. C. Heath Turner as well as the Guest Editors of our Special Issues, who have ensured, with their hard work and diligence, the continued significance of the journal.

MDPI will attend WHTC 2019 in Tokyo, Japan from 2–7 June 2019.

The World Hydrogen Technologies Convention, consisting of an exhibition and various sessions, is one of the most authoritative international conferences related to hydrogen technologies. WHTC 2019 aims to provide a forum for scientific, industrial, governmental, and general audiences from all over the world to gather together and present their most recent research findings, and to offer a stimulating atmosphere to discuss and exchange ideas on frontier research topics and future possibilities in hydrogen energy technologies through oral / poster presentations and technology exhibitions. This conference will be a place for the sharing and exchange of information on hydrogen-related technologies and policies and also for deepening international cooperation while discussing the future of a low carbon society.

Our representatives will be exhibiting the open access journals Energies, Catalysts, Processes, Safety, Metals, Applied Sciences, and ChemEngineering.

If you will also be in attendance, please stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and to answering any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about this conference, please visit http://whtc2019.jp/index.html.

MDPI's team of editors is going to attend EUBCE 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal, from 27-30 May, 2019.

As the largest gathering of biomass experts, the EUBCE combines one of the largest science and technology conferences with a high industry exhibition, attracting biomass professionals from around the globe. Key topics include biomass resources, biomass conversion technologies for heating, cooling and electricity, biomass conversion technologies for energy carriers, chemicals and materials, biomass sustainability, impacts and policies, and bioenergy integration in energy systems.

MDPI representatives will be exhibiting our open access journals Energies, Sustainability, Catalysts, Resources and Processes.

If you will also be in attendance, please stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about this conference, please visit http://www.eubce.com/.