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Overall objective of the book Access to the radio spectrum is a critical requirement for all sectors using wireless technologies, such as media, mobile communications, aviation, medicine, etc. The book will gather world-class scientists, engineers and educators engaged in the fields of radio communications to meet and present their latest activities. This book aims to provide a particularly good way for experts in one aspect of the field to learn about advances made by their colleagues with different research interests. Topics covered by the book include but are not limited to:
Open Access is a new direction in academic publishing where all chapters are available for full free access online. This book is going to be published as an open access, fully searchable, free by anyone, anywhere in the world. Why Open Access? We believe that immediate, world-wide, barrier-free, open access to the full text of research articles is in the best interests of the scientific community. Author benefits Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact The mean number of citations to offline articles is 2.74, and the mean number of citations to online articles is 7.03, an increase of 157%.(Source: Steve Lawrence in Nature forum on Future e-access to the primary literature, 31 May 2001) Publishing costs Publishing with open access is not without costs since the book is also going to be published in printed edition with ISBN number (costs of review, corrections, preparation for print, print, postal shipment, cover design...). Corresponding author will also receive one copy of the book, and books are going to be sent to the major world university libraries free of charge. The publishing fee per chapter is 470 Euro. In comparison to other open access publishers, which imply the author fee of minimum 3000 Euro, this publishing fee is rather than symbolic. Note: This is not going to be the e-book, rather printed book with free online access as well. |
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