New IEEE Open (Access) Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS)

[graybeard]

It appears the IEEE feels the winds of the open access journal movement and Solid-State Circuits Society is starting an open access journal.   As an author of past papers I received the following message yesterday.

As a valued Member and/or author who has published with the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society in the past, I invite you to be among the first to submit your research and have your article peer-reviewed for the IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society (OJ-SSCS).

The IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society is a fully open access journal that publishes papers in the broad area of solid-state circuits with particular emphasis on transistor-level design of integrated circuits. It also provides coverage of topics such as circuit modeling, technology, systems design, layout, and testing in areas of central importance for circuit design. The subject matter should therefore relate to the analysis, design, and performance of solid-state circuits. Integrated circuits and VLSI are of principal interest; material related to discrete circuit design is seldom published. Experimental verification is strongly encouraged.

The OJ-SSCS Editorial Board also wants to foster publications in novel areas of integrated circuits design. For this reason, we will propose regularly special issues on relevant and timely topics. At this moment two special issues have been launched:
 
•   Special issue on Electronic-photonic integrated circuits (EPIC)
Submission deadline: 1 July 2021
•   Special issue on Imagers for 3D Vision
Submission deadline: 30 June 2021
 
This gold open access Journal is fully compliant with funder mandates, such as Plan S. All articles are published under Creative Commons Attribution Licenses (CC-BY).

As Editor-in-Chief of the new open-access publication, I invite you to publish in the IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society.
 
•   Your research will be exposed to more than 5 million unique monthly users of the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library.
•   Our extensive review process and high-quality manuscript standards identical to the subscription-based JSSC will allow authors to benefit from the 50 years of reputation build-up by the Solid-State Circuits Society in integrated circuit design. Authors of papers published in the OJ-SSCS will obtain an equally valid appreciation from their peers.
 
Submit your article today, and get published in the IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society.
 
Best regards,

Eugenio Cantatore
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits Society
e.cantatore@tue.nl

[Weston]

Its nice that IEEE has open access journals now. I have published in IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics and its nice that I can share the paper with random people online that are not in academia.

However, the IEEE open access journals charge a few thousand dollars to publish (and they do not do any copy editing. I really don't know where the money goes....). They get their pound of flesh either way.

I would say the biggest advantage to publishing in the IEEE open access journals is the publication time. My paper took around two months from submission to publication, including one review cycle. A previous IEEE paper took around 8 months and some of the conferences are close to a year between initial digest submission and final publication.

[Rick Law]

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However, the IEEE open access journals charge a few thousand dollars to publish (and they do not do any copy editing. I really don't know where the money goes....). They get their pound of flesh either way.
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Prop tax?  Building cleaning?  Snow removal?

Quite a nice campus they got in Piscataway, NJ, a couple of miles from Rutgers University Campus.  It has to cost a bit of green to keep that much green here in NJ.  Your few thousand dollars probably paid for a few milliseconds of operating that facility.

See attached Google Map photo...