Many high-quality journals focused on the same FIS topics are already published by many professional publishers. Since the first issue, it was clear that Frattura ed Integrita Strutturale (FIS) couldn't be simply an additional journal offered to our community. It was necessary that it should offer something different.
First of all, IGF decided to organize FIS as a Diamond Open Access journal, without APC and completely free for the readers. Obviously, also the Open Access has a cost (we recently published a post on this topic), but the number of participants to the next IGF27 (February 22-24, 2023) demonstrated that our community understood and appreciated the approach we are following!
Then, in the years, we started offering some different services. Among them, we can recall:
- we adopt OJS, Open Journal System in order to handle the submission, reviewing, publishing and distributing processes;
- papers are published according to the CC-BY 4.0 license; Authors are allowed to retain both the copyright and the publishing rights of their articles without restrictions; each paper has its own DOI (Digital Object Identifier);
- the Authors have the possibility to embed videos, animations and audio files in their papers;
- all the issue are published also in a browsable version (LINK);
- all the papers are immediately published after acceptance in the "Online first" section;
- we offer the possibility to comment the papers;
- all the papers are organized in "Categories", allowing to the Readers to immediately find the papers focused on many different topics;
- since issue 45, July 2018, Visual Abstracts for all the published papers are published in a dedicated YouTube channel (LINK), improving the papers visibility;
- the publication of this Blog.
... and many other minor services!
Thanks to the quality of the published papers, and to the help of many friends as reviewers or editors, we obtained the journal indexing in many databases like Scopus, WoS etc... and we increased our usefulness for our community... and this is more important!
Now, we are asking you to help us to further improve the journal and its usefulness for our community.
Please, if you have an idea for a new service to be implemented, for something that you think could be useful, please, do not hesitate to share your thoughts by posting your comment to this post! Ciao!
