Announcements

Oral is recruiting Editorial Board members:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/oral/editors

The journal is looking to expand the Editorial Board in order to cover areas that need additional representation by the current team. If you are interested in serving as an Academic Editor on the Editorial Board or would like to recommend potential candidates, please reach out to us.

Oral (ISSN 2673-6373) is a new open access journal published quarterly online by the leading open access publisher MDPI. Professor Giuseppina Campisi is serving as the Editor in Chief. This new journal is dedicated to the publication and worldwide dissemination of peer-reviewed research articles and review papers in all areas of oral health.

The benefits of Editorial Board Members are as follows:

1. Publish one paper free of charge in Oral per year;
2. Publish extra papers with special discounts;
3. Freely organize or promote your own conferences by using our platform, SciForum (https://sciforum.net/conferences).

The main responsibilities are:

1. Prescreening submissions, making decisions on whether they should be rejected or accepted for processing, and recommending additional reviewers if necessary;
2. Reviewing a couple of manuscripts per year;
3. Suggesting some interesting topics for the journal.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Oral Editorial Office (oral@mdpi.com). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

We are delighted to announce the establishment of our Open Access agreement with Jisc Collections, which will allow UK institutions to benefit from access to article processing charge (APC) discounts and streamlined payment workflows.

All institutions participating in the agreement will also gain access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information for easy identification and additional transparency.

Eligible authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system.

About Jisc

Jisc's vision is for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. At its heart is the super-fast national research and education network, Janet, with built-in cyber security protection.  Jisc also provides technology solutions for its members (colleges, universities and research centres) and customers (public sector bodies), helps members save time and money by negotiating sector-wide deals and provides advice and practical assistance on digital technology. Jisc is funded by the UK higher and further education and research funding bodies and member institutions.

For more information, contact helen.dobson@jisc.ac.uk.

About MDPI

MDPI is a publisher of fully peer-reviewed, Open Access journals with a focus on thorough and rapid editorial processing. Its aim is to ensure that high-quality research is verified and made available to the research community as quickly as possible. MDPI stands at the forefront of the Open Access movement, having launched its first online journal Molecules in 1996. Today, MDPI is a leader in Open Access publishing with over 250 journals across all research disciplines, and all content published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

For any questions about this agreement, please contact the MDPI IOAP team at ioap@mdpi.com.