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Sondipon Adhikari (UK) Call for Papers
Vladimir Babitsky (UK)
Jordan Berg (USA)
Darwin G. Caldwell (Italy)
Marco Ceccarelli (Italy)
Craig Chapman (UK)
Roy Featherstone (Australia)
Mohamed S. Gadala (Canada)
Huosheng Hu (UK)
Didier Keymeulen (USA)
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Melvyn Smith (UK)
Masayoshi Tomizuka (USA)
L.Q. "Rick" Wang (Hong Kong)
Y. Lawrence Yao (USA)
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Call for Papers Aims & Scope Open Access.
What Does It Really Mean?
Dear Colleagues, Machines is an international, peer-reviewed Open access is mainly a response to what is
journal on machinery and engineering. It pub- known as the serials crisis: yearly increasing
You are invited to contribute a research article lishes research articles, reviews, short commu- journal subscription prices, which make sub-
or a comprehensive review for consideration nications and letters. scription-based journals increasingly difficult to
and publication in Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). afford.
Machines, an international, open access jour- Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish
nal on machinery and engineering is published their experimental and theoretical results in as Many university libraries around the world have
by MDPI online quarterly. much detail as possible. There is no restriction had to cancel existing subscriptions, or are
on the length of the papers. Full experimental unable to keep up with subscribing to new jour-
Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word or and/or methodical details must be provided. nals, because the cost of publication has risen
LaTeX can be submitted to the Editorial Office disproportionately to their budgets.
online at www.mdpi.com. Detailed Instructions There are, in addition, unique features of this
for Authors are also available online: journal: Manuscripts regarding research pro- With open access publishing, the cost of peer-
posals and research ideas will be particularly review and production of an article is borne by
www.mdpi.com/journal/machines/instructions/ welcomed; Electronic files or software regard- the institute of the author by payment of a one-
ing the full details of the calculation and experi- time flat fee. Conversely, readers and their
Machines is published in an open access for- mental procedure - if unable to be published in institutes are no longer charged for accessing
mat – research articles, reviews and other con- a normal way - can be deposited as supple- the journals they need.
tents are released on the Internet immediately mentary material
after acceptance. The scientific community and For researchers, open access brings the con-
the general public have unlimited free access The scope of Machines includes: venience of immediate access to the literature
to the content as soon as it is published. that they need – no matter for which university
applications of automation or company they work, or whether they just
Machines is a new journal and publications
systems and control engineering want to read a paper in their spare time at
fees are fully waived for papers submitted in electronic engineering home.
2013. However, a fee of 250 CHF may apply mechanical engineering
for those articles that need major editing and computer engineering For authors, open access means a much wider
formatting and/or English editing. mechatronics circle of readers due to the easy access to their
robotics research papers. The interested ge-neral public
We would be pleased to welcome you as one industrial design is also able to access research works, giving
of our authors. human-machine-interfaces partly higher transparency to the outcome of
mechanical systems, machines and taxpayer money spent on research.
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