[Image above] February is a golden time to learn about recent ACerS journal news and tips! Credit: Citizen59, Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Can you believe we are already a month into 2020? As we enter the second month of the year, it’s time for another round of ACerS journal news and tips!
Recently posted journal issues
JACerS: Volume 103 Issue 3 (March), with a feature article on Zirconia-based composites with metal-like mechanical behavior.
ACT: Volume 17 Issue 1 (Jan-Feb), a timely special issue on the Circular Economy. See also the two collections on ACerS Publication Central (below), featuring articles published in ACT.
IJAGS: Volume 11, Issue 1 (January), featuring articles on phosphate glasses.
IJCES: Entering its second year, Volume 2, Issue 1 features diverse topics from high-temperature ceramic matrix composite processing to using corncob ash as an economical raw material.
IJCES invites ICACC and EMA conference presenters with special APC
One part of the mission of IJCES is publishing peer-reviewed articles on work-in-progress presented at ACerS conferences. ACerS and Wiley, our publishing partner, teamed up to substantially underwrite the open-access article processing charge for conference presenters. The fee for conference articles is now only $100. Submit your manuscript today!
ACT authors honored at ICACC
The inaugural class of Fast-Track authors, along with authors of highly cited and highly downloaded articles, were recognized at a celebratory breakfast in Daytona Beach at the 44th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC20). Fast-Track is a special ACT program that rewards well-written and timely articles with a special review cycle to get them published even faster. All you need to do to participate in Fast-Track is submit your best manuscripts detailing your in-depth research on engineering or applied science of ceramics here.
Last call for computational materials scientist to join the JACerS editorial team
Recognizing the growing confluence of materials science and data science, JACerS is seeking a computational materials scientist to join the editorial team. Candidates should have expertise in modeling and simulations at multiple length and time scales along with a strong collegial network and experience editing journal manuscripts. Please contact managing editor Jonathon Foreman (jforeman@ceramics.org) for more information or to submit your application.
Updates to ACerS Publication Central (ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Check out the featured articles on our Wiley Online journal sites. See which articles and topics the editors have chosen to highlight. To access the featured articles, go to the “BROWSE” menu for each and select “Featured Content.”
Two collections were recently added: The topical collection Ceramics for the Circular Economy and the conference collection for CICMT 2019. Topical collections are compilations of articles from one or more ACerS journal on a specific subject. Conference collections highlight work from and pertinent to ACerS conferences.
Hint of the month
Why wait for TOC alerts? Get notified about the latest articles as they are published online. Read hot-off-the-presses “Accepted Articles,” which are posted online within a few days of acceptance. Want to wait for the version of record? You are alerted when copyediting and typesetting are finalized. Signing up on ACerS Publication Central is quick and painless.
- Sign in or create your Wiley Online account—You do not need to be an ACerS member for this service. If you are an ACerS member and signed up to get your member access to journal articles, you have created your Wiley Online account.
- Go to the Wiley Online journal home page—You can enter each journal’s home page by clicking the journal banner on ACerS Publication Central (ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com).
- Click on the “Get content alerts” icon—Select how frequently you wish to receive the updates.
- And you are good to go!
