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Healthcare Technology Letters now publishing as Gold Open Access
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced that from 2017, its rapid-publication journal Healthcare Technology Letters (HTL) will publish under a gold open access model. The journal will also increase in frequency from 4 issues to 6 issues per year.
Launched in 2014, HTL was developed to provide a home for peer-reviewed, innovative and timely research in the multi-disciplinary area of healthcare technology. The switch to a fully open access model enables essential research in this fast moving field to be made freely available to anyone who wishes to read it and use it. Articles are also deposited immediately in PubMed Central, further increasing visibility and discoverability of research.
Speaking of the announcement, Vincent Cassidy, Head of Academic Markets at the IET: said, “Open access continues to grow in popularity and is becoming increasingly mandated by both funding bodies and universities. By changing the publishing model of HTL to fully open access, we can help researchers comply more easily with these mandates whilst aligning with the overall mission of the IET to support the progression of research across all engineering disciplines.”
An e-first journal, HTL focuses on the most recent advances within a wide scope of disciplines, encompassing biomedical engineering, and computer and information science for healthcare. It is supported by a prestigious, international editorial board comprising members with expertise across a wide range of healthcare technologies.
Cassidy added: “In the relatively short time it has been publishing, HTL has seen a significant increase in submissions which further underpins our decision to make this essential information openly accessible. The journal is quickly becoming established as a resource to keep readers and researchers abreast of the latest developments in healthcare technology. The change in business model and increase in publication frequency will help us to better serve this community who depend on timely access to novel research.”
Article processing charges for papers accepted for publication in 2017 will be waived. The first fully open access issue of Healthcare Technology Letters will publish in February 2017.
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About Healthcare Technology Letters
Healthcare technology is a rapidly advancing, interdisciplinary field and Healthcare Technology Letters has been designed to meet the needs of researchers working in this context. The journal aims to bring together an audience of biomedical and electrical engineers, physical and computer scientists, and mathematicians to enable the exchange of the latest ideas and advances through rapid online publication of original healthcare technology research. Healthcare Technology Letters is included in PubMed Central and is available to view on the IET Digital Library at www.ietdl.org/htl. .
About the Editor-in-Chief
Professor Christopher James, University of Warwick, UK
Professor James is Director of Warwick Engineering in Biomedicine, at the University of Warwick, which brings together the diverse biomedical engineering research of the university’s School of Engineering. His research activity centres on the development of biomedical signal and pattern processing techniques, as well as the use of technological innovations, to advance healthcare and promote wellbeing. Primarily, his interest lies in the field of neural engineering and in behaviour monitoring through unobtrusive measurements. He has published over 160 papers in neural engineering in varied biomedical engineering journals and served as a conference referee. He is an active figure in both the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). In 2012 he was awarded the IET Sir Monty Finniston Achievement Award for his work in the Biomedical Engineering field.
About The IET
The IET is one of the world’s largest engineering institutions with over 167,000 members in 150 countries. It is also the most interdisciplinary – to reflect the increasingly diverse nature of engineering in the 21st century. Energy, transport, manufacturing, information and communications, and the built environment: the IET covers them all.
The IET is working to engineer a better world by inspiring, informing and influencing our members, engineers and technicians, and all those who are touched by, or touch, the work of engineers.
We want to build the profile of engineering and change outdated perceptions about engineering in order to tackle the skills gap. This includes encouraging more women to become engineers and growing the number of engineering apprentices.
For more information, visit www.theiet.org
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