Announcements

We are pleased to announce the new platform Encyclopedia, which is an online reference created and curated by active scholars. It aims to highlight the latest research results as well as providing benchmark information for researchers and the general public interested in accurate and advanced knowledge on specific topics.

We encourage authors of review articles to quote and adapt the content of their published papers to create Encyclopedia entries. You can create completely new entries on topics in which you have knowledge and expertise. There is no limit on the topics or research fields. All of science and the humanities are included. Each entry will be published directly after submission.

We also have prepared a DOI application function in Encyclopedia. Once a DOI application is approved, the entry website will announce the DOI number and a pdf version with DOI information will be automatically created.

We look forward to your contributions and hope you will make use of this service. Find more about the service at: https://encyclopedia.pub/

In December 2018, the Brazilian Association of Chemical Engineering (ABEQ) became an affiliated society member of the journal Processes. As part of this collaboration, all affiliated ABEQ members are now entitled to a discount of 15% on the article processing charge (APC) for all articles published in Processes.

The Brazilian Association of Chemical Engineering (ABEQ) is a non-profit entity that brings together professionals and companies interested in the development of Chemical Engineering in Brazil. It is affiliated to the Inter-American Confederation of Chemical Engineering. For more than four decades, ABEQ has played an important role in the valuation of professionals and students of chemical engineering in Brazil.

We are delighted to announce that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is now a participant of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). Authors funded by the BMGF can enjoy discounts on the APC, while the funder covers the costs of eligible articles centrally. BMGF also has access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency.

We hope that funded authors find the programme beneficial and we are happy to offer our IOAP to other funders that need a streamlined workflow of compliance checking and APC coverage. 

To claim their discount, BMGF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript.

For any questions about the BMGF agreement, please contact the funder at support@chronos-oa.com or the MDPI IOAP team at ioap@mdpi.com.

We are pleased to inform that Processes has received an updated first Journal Impact Factor of 1.279 (2017) in the update of the Journal Citation Reports® in October 2018.

Processes is covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in Web of Science; it ranks 85/137 (Q3) in the category 'Engineering, Chemical.'

The Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, is a Clarivate Analytics product.

Recently, it was announced that a group of European funders supported 10 principles that will help to expand open access, known as Plan S. MDPI warmly welcomes this move as a step towards achieving more open and accessible communication of research across all disciplines. Some aspects remain to be clarified, however the details given so far match the aims and values that MDPI has held over the past two decades.

We believe that open access publishers should be active participants in discussions around Plan S, particularly regarding potential new business models and practical aspects of implementation. MDPI supports APCs as a transparent unit of payment for article publishing, however we are committed to exploring other measures and recently signed the Jussieu Call. Sustainability is a key value for MDPI, and future funding models should have at their heart the sustainability of knowledge and research dissemination. Plan S provides an opportunity for funders and publishers to directly discuss funding of open access journals in ways that are beneficial to all parties involved.

MDPI will be attending 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, to be held in Boston, USA, 25–30 November 2018.

This conference is the key forum to present research to an interdisciplinary and international audience. It provides a window on the future of materials science and offers an opportunity for researchers—from students and postdoctoral fellows, to Nobel and Kavli Prize Laureates—to exchange technical information and network with colleagues.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Materials
• Polymers
• Energies
• Nanomaterials
• Metals
• Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB)
• Processes
• Sensors
• Sustainability
• C
• Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP)
• Biomimetics
• Methods and Protocols (MPs)

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #123). 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://www.mrs.org/fall2018

We are happy to announce the establishment of an Open Access (OA) agreement with Qatar National Library (QNL). QNL is committed to supporting and helping Qatar authors publish OA at no cost. Through this national agreement, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by Qatar-based corresponding authors in MDPI journals.

Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with Qatar research centers and universities are prompted to choose QNL as part of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email and/or a computer registered with the institution’s IP range. QNL will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.

Qatar authors that have their APC covered by QNL are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "The publication of this article was funded by Qatar National Library".

For more information, please visit Open Access at QNL or email the QNL Open Access team at openaccess@qnl.qa.

We are pleased to announce an agreement with LAPSE–Living Archive for Process Systems Engineering. Articles published in Processes will be deposited in LAPSE for better reach within the community. This makes it easier for Processes authors to connect their research to related materials such as conference presentations, model and simulation files, experimental data, or other related works using the record map feature.

Currently, all papers published in Volumes 4–6 in Processes are available in LAPSE, with Volumes 1–3 coming soon. Going forward, each new issue will be deposited into LAPSE as it is published.

In July 2018, the S&C Division of the CSChE became an affiliated society member of the journal Processes. As part of this collaboration, all affiliated S&C Division members are now entitled to a discount on the article processing charge (APC) for all articles published in Processes.

The S&C Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada consists of researchers, professionals, and students who are interested in process systems engineering, process control, process design, optimization, and statistical methods relating to process systems. Their division meetings take place yearly at the annual conference of the CSChE.