From October 22 to 28, CORROSION journal is celebrating Open Access Week, an initiative launched by Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) in 2008. This year’s theme, “Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Knowledge,” provides a forum for authors, editors, and publishers to reflect on the benefits of open access, as well as how we approach, create, and implement policies designed to deliver research to a broader audience.
CORROSION will be “unlocking” research articles on topics that affect our daily lives during our celebration of Open Access Week. Corrosion impacts our health and safety, from the delivery of the water we drink, to the implants used to heal and support us. It affects the infrastructure of the bridges we walk and drive across, and the nuclear power plants used to produce the electricity we consume.
This type of corrosion research has the ability to shape the world we live in—facilitating new innovations and leading to better decisions and policies. Open access aids in sharing key research findings, inspiring future studies, and bettering our understanding of the world we share. CORROSION believes in making quality research available for society’s benefit. We play an integral role in NACE International’s mission to equip society to protect people, assets, and the environment from the adverse effects of corrosion. In order to fulfill this mission, we are committed to delivering the research we publish to the broadest audience possible.
CORROSION first began offering open access in 2015. Starting in March of 2016, we have designated an article every month as open access for 30 days, to spotlight and bring awareness to the research we proudly publish. We also “unlock” articles each quarter to help further the research understanding behind different industry topics in a crossover feature with NACE’s membership magazine, Materials Performance. In addition, we support green open access, in which all of our authors may post unformatted versions of their articles in their institutional repositories. We continue to develop how we provide access to our articles and look forward to bringing you more open content.
CORROSION will be removing the paywall on our October issue between October 22 and 28, along with unlocking several article collections throughout the week. Look for more information about these collections on our web site and social media outlets.
Sammy Miles
Managing Editor in Chief
For more information about Open Access Week, visit http://www.openaccessweek.org/
