Announcements

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.

Our editorial team will be attending the XXVI Ibero-American Catalysis Congress (CICat 2018) in Coimbra, Portugal, 9–14 September 2018

As a result of the biannual meetings held since 1968, the Ibero-American Federation of Catalysis Societies (FISoCat), the Portuguese Society of Chemistry (SPQ) and the University of Coimbra, have the pleasure of organizing the XXVI Ibero-American Catalysis Congress (CICat 2018).

As in previous editions, this event aims to be a meeting point for the Ibero-American community working in Catalysis and in all its different areas of scientific knowledge. The 2018 CICat has a symbolic historical importance, for reaching 50 years since the beginning of this series of Encounters. Participants of CICat 2018 are also invited to visit the city of Coimbra, as well as its historic center and the University of Coimbra (UNESCO World Heritage Site).

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Catalysts
Processes
Energies
Symmetry
Applied Sciences
Sustainability
Materials

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth near the Lobby Coffee Break). 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://cicat2018.eventos.chemistry.pt/?setLn=es.

Processes held the 2018 Editorial Board Meeting on 3 July 2018 in San Diego, during the PSE2018 conference. We greatly appreciate the fact that Editor-in-Chief Prof. Michael A. Henson hosted this meeting and there were 8 EBM attendees.

At this EB meeting, the EBMs had a positive discussion about how to improve the journal’s reputation, manage the five new Sections and Special Issues, balance the Editorial Board’s distribution, and cooperate with the conferences and societies.

Attendees: (from left to right)

Prof. Rafiqul Gani (SPEED)
Dr. Leo Chiang (Dow Chemical)
Prof. Martha A Grover (Section EiC, Georgia Tech)
Prof. Bhavik R. Bakshi (OSU)
Prof. Thomas A. Adams II (Section EiC, McMaster Univ.)
Prof. Michael A. Henson (EiC, UMassAmherst)
Prof. Ka Ming NG (HKUST)
Prof. B. Wayne Bequette (RPI)
Prof. Christos T. Maravelias (UW-Madison)

We appreciate the efforts of all the Editorial Board Members and look forward to meeting you next time!

Guest Editor: Dr. Hyun-Seob Song

ISBN 978-3-03842-975-3 (Pbk)
ISBN 978-3-03842-976-0 (PDF)

This Special Issue book focuses on key aspects of microbial interactions and community dynamics. As the Guest Editor, as well as an Editorial Board Member of Processes, Dr. Hyun-Seob Song successfully collected 11 articles from lead scientists in the field. Two are review papers; the other nine cover three key areas of microbial modeling. The news of this publication has been announced on the website of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Now the book is also available in print and can be ordered online.

Click here for the free electronic version.

We are pleased to announce that Processes has received a first Impact Factor in the latest edition of the Journal Citation Reports®, published by Clarivate Analytics in June 2018.

Processes is covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in Web of Science and received a first Impact Factor of 2.973. The journal ranks 38/137 (Q2) in the category 'Engineering, Chemical.'

Note: the Impact Factor is pending revision for the September re-load of the Journal Citation Reports®, with the updated value expected to be significantly lower than the IF published now.

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

MDPI will be attending the 8th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT8), to be held in Yokohama, Japan, 5–10 August 2018.

Catalysis Society of Japan will organize this meeting as a continuation of TOCAT (1990), TOCAT2 (1994), TOCAT3 (1998), TOCAT4 (2002), TOCAT5 (2006), TOCAT6/APCAT5 (2010), and TOCAT7 (2014). The past seven TOCAT conferences have earned a good reputation as a new series of international conferences on catalysis that has significantly filled the gap between research and technology in catalysis. Stimulating closer ties between academia and industry and encouraging young researchers in the field of catalysis are the central concept of this conference. This conference should greatly contribute to exchanging new ideas and technologies and promoting developments of new outstanding catalysts and systems under the scope that catalysis is a highly and eagerly demanded technology in industries and for sustainable society and drives innovation in many other fields.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Catalysts
Processes
Energies
Molecules
Materials

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #8). 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://www.shokubai.org/tocat8/index.html.