About the e-WINDENG JournalThe e-WINDENG JournalThe E-Windeng Journal is the development of the home page of a European Training Network called WindEng (www.windeng.net ) financed under the EU Improving Human potential Programme, (www.cordis.lu/improving ), Network activity. Here, the research reports resulting from the activity of the young researcher working in the network are published. The idea is to extend the NETWORK home page to young research below 35 outside the network. This will allow them to be referred for original ideas from data analysis of experimental campaign, new concepts etc. E-Windeng accept original research note or papers from young European researchers aged 35 or less, for publications after a peer review process of a review panel. Copyright of short notes will remain to the authors who might then submit developments to other Journals. E-WindEng address the following topic areas applied to wind energy assessment and wind engineering.
Including hardware and software development, descriptions and publication of databases from experiments. Peer Review PolicyWhat is the peer review process?The peer review process is an independent quality control procedure for articles submitted to journals. Because it is very useful for authors to have others within the same field of expertise look at their work form a different perspective, they can benefit greatly from having someone else read and comment upon their work. Peer review is vital for enhancing the quality, credibility and acceptability of published research and practice papers In this journal we practice the traditional process, where the author of a paper doesn't know the reviewer, but the reviewer will know the author. This is not always possible, especially if the subject area does not support a large community. It is quite possible that the author will be able to guess the identity of the reviewer. The editor's roleThe editor decides if a submitted paper is suitable for inclusion and falls within the journal's subject area. If the article is peripheral to the journal's area of interest then it will be either rejected immediately or the editor will ask the author to resubmit the paper after it has been revised. If a paper is rejected outright, the editor often suggests that the author submits the paper to a more appropriate journal. If the reviewers do not agree about rejection or acceptance, he/she can have the last decision whether the paper must be rejected or be given a chance in any step of the process. Otherwise he/she might call a third reviewer. The reviewers roleIf the editor decides that an article is suitable then it will enter the peer review process. For this journals it means traditional peer review. The editor selects usually two (but sometimes as many as four) independent reviewers who research or practise in the same area as the author and are subject specialists. Sometimes the reviewers are members of the editorial advisory board or the editorial review board and other times the editor will use ad hoc reviewers from his or her personal network. This is occasionally necessary for a very specialised subject area or because the regular reviewers are too busy. The reviewers then judge the paper and return it to the editor. The editor then passes comments from the reviewers back to the author, particularly when rejection or revision is advised. The outcomesAfter an article has been reviewed, it is then in one of three states; rejected, accepted, or returned for revision with the suggestion that the author makes amendments to the article which might meet the reviewers' satisfaction. If the reviewers ask for an article to be revised, the author has the opportunity to amend the article and resubmit it for review. At this second review stage, the reviewers decide if the alterations the author has made have taken into account all the points raised in the first review. Accordingly, the paper will be finally accepted or rejected. Normally we expect to publish papers within three months of submission Instructions to AuthorsThis section describes how to prepare an article for submission to e-WINDENG Journal. These guidelines should be adhered to as closely as possible. Questions or comments should be directed to Dr. Anna Maria Sempreviva FormatThe document should be submitted as a PDF file. This facilitates the electronic review process as a range of editorial markup tools are available, primarily the Acrobat suite from Adobe Inc. These products are also recommended for producing the PDF-files. For product descriptions, see http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html. If the manuscript is written using LaTeX, it is necessary to convert the output to PDF using pdfTeX. Further information can be found at CTAN: http://www.ctan.org/ Preparation of the manuscriptThe language of the journal is english with british english spelling being preferred. Quotes on more than 40 words should be set off from the surrounding text and surrounded by quotation marks. Abbreviations and initials should be explained at their first occurence. Structure of the manuscriptThe manuscript should begin with the following elements in the quoted order: Title, author(s), affiliation together with full address including phone, fax and email. Next should follow a short abstract of the manuscript, 100-250 words. This should as informative as possible. A set of guidelines for writing abstracts can be found in the ANSI/NISO Z39.14 available at: http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=52600. Figures in bitmap graphics should be converted to JPEG format in order to reduce the file size of the final document. Each figure and table should be numbered and referenced from the text. Table notes should be placed directly below the tables. Section headings should be numbered using the following convention: 1., 1.1, 1.1.1, 2., 2.1 etc. Supplementary materials should be collected and included in the manuscript after the main text, but ahead for notes and literature references. Acknowledments should be places in a separate section ahead of the notes and literature references. Notes should only be used sparingly and footnotes is preferred ahead of endnotes. Notes should be numbered using superscript numerals and should be listed just ahead of literature references. Subject term assignmentIn connection with the submission of the manuscript to e-WINDENG Journal, the author must assign the manuscript one or more subject terms deemed relevant to the subject of the manuscript. This is to ensure a efficient retrieval of subject related documents during searches of the journal and requires the author to choose only those terms that matches the subject of the manuscript closely. The six main terms (A Aeroelastic Design, B Atmospheric Physics etc.) should only be used as subject terms if the subject of the manuscript can not be adequately described using the existing sub-terms. In this case the main term best describing the subject area should be assigned and further description should be sought using the keyword system (see below): Keyword assignmentThis possibility for providing uncontrolled terms should primarily be used if an adequate description of the subject was not possible using the controlled subject terms. Please be as specific and concise as possible, avoiding broad terms. Literature referencesReferences should be identified by placing the authors name in brackets followed by publication year and if relevant, the page number. Multiple authors is indicated by addition of et al. to the first authors name. If one author is quoted for multiple publications within the same publication year, a lowercase letter is assigned to both the citation and the reference. Example: (Ullerup et al., 1976, p. 136, b) The reference list should be placed last in the manuscript. Manuscripts in press referenced from the text should not be included in the reference list. The references should include author, year of publication, title, pagenumber if relevant, publisher, place of publication. Journal articles should include the name of the journal, volume as well as page range for the article. The order of occurence should be as follows: Author, year of publication, title, journal title, journal volume number, page number (page range for journal articles), publisher, place of publication. Examples: CopyrightThe author of the manuscript retains copyright on the submitted materials also after publication in e-WINDENG Journal. Development and Technologye-WINDENG Journal was developed as a student project as part of the course "Electronic Journals" offered by the Department of Information Studies, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark: Anette Bak, Reidar Bjorvatn, Iben Brøndum, Eva Buchwald Christensen, Tove Dreiø Andresen, Tina Holst Nielsen, Andreas Høgh, Michael I Soylu, Stefan Kvist Christensen, Rikke Lehmann, Anne-Mette Lerche, Haakon Lund, Else Marie Tange Nørgaard, Casper Andreas Schack, Piet Seiden, Maria Smith and Lina Maria Witzner. This archive is running on GNU EPrints open archive software, a freely distributable archive system available from software.eprints.org. Other institutions are invited (and encouraged) to set up their own open archives for author self-archiving, using the freely-distributable GNU EPrints software used at this site. e-WINDENG is running on GNU EPrints archive-creating software, which generates eprints archives that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0. Contact InformationAny correspondence concerning this specific archive should be sent to anna.sempreviva@risoe.dk. About this softwareThis site is running GNU EPrints / revision: EPrints 2.3.13.1 (Sticky Toffee) [Born on 2005-09-20] GNU EPrints is free software developed by the University of Southampton, England. For more information see eprints.org and software.eprints.org Technologies employed and supported:Powered by: MySQL, Apache Webserver, PERL, mod_perl, XML, DOM, GNU EPrints. Supports: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, VLit Transclusions, Valid XHTML, Valid CSS. Part of: The GNU Project.
CreditsChristopher Gutteridge - Designer and coder of EPrints version 2. Mike Jewell - Pre-release testing. The initial versions of scripts for creating and installing an EPrints v2 package. Some coding assistance. Robert Tansley - Creator of EPrints 1 on which EPrints 2 is based. Al Riddoch <ajr@ecs.soton.ac.uk> - Assistance in writing the "configure" script for the installer. Gui Power - Adapting the online help for version 2. Developed at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England.
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