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Subject:RE: Publishing Journal Computational Engineering with Springer

Date:Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:27:23 +0000
From:Premnath, Ramesh Nath, Springer Asia <RameshNath.Premnath@springer.com>
To:Dr. Ut V. Le <ts.levanut@gmail.com>, h.nguyendang@ulg.ac.be
<h.nguyendang@ulg.ac.be>
Dear Prof. Nguyen Dang Hung and Dr. Ut V. Le,
Thank you for the updated proposal, I had a preliminary discussion with my
senior editorial colleagues and the first impression is very positive, mainly
for these reasons:
1. Most importantly, we recognize Prof. Nguyen Dang Hung as a renowned
scientist with a good reputation in the field of mechanics and computational
mechanics. This will definitely help in promoting the journal and with Prof.
Hung's network and influence, we foresee rapid development for the new
journa.
2. We recognize many board members who have a good reputation in the field.
Some of them are closely connected to other Springer journals, e.g. Wing Kam
Liu, an Associate Editor of our successful journal "Computational Mechanics"
(which is actually very close content-wise). We know several on the proposed
board who are actively supporting Vietnamese activities. Therefore, the new
journal may really develop and might start very well.
3. The scope of the journal lies in one of Springer's strongest areas
(applied mathematics and computational mechanics), with a lot of promotional
opportunities (conferences, newsletter, etc.)
4. Springer's activities in the field of mechanics have mainly been focused
in Europe, working with this journal will under line our efforts to develop
Asia Pacific, and this aspect is definitely a USP.
At this moment, probably the most important decision we have to make is which
model should we adapt for the journal, Open Access or Subscription? Let me
briefly describe the two models to you.
As you probably know, for subscription model journals, authors publish their
articles at no charge (although some charges may apply for color figures),
articles are peer-reviewed prior to publication, gaining access to journal
requires payment of subscription fees. However, this models has its
drawbacks, the budget for most libraries worldwide are shrinking, convincing
them to pay subscription for new journals (with no impact factor) can
sometimes be a difficult task. In addition, subscription fees limits the

access of such journals for readers in developing countries where budget of

libraries are not extensive enough.
Open access journals is the preferred model for new start-up journal in
Springer. For Open Access, authors pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) for
publication, however payment by the authors is only made after their articles
undergo peer-review and accepted into the journal for publication. This
allows unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium is
permitted, provided the article is properly cited. Therefore, no subscription
fees is needed to gain full access to the journal, the content is available
to everyone. The advantages for a new start-up journal includes higher
readership, wider circulation, rapid development, higher citation (as a
result of higher readership) and eventually helping it attain world-wide
recognition, articles being indexed by reputable scientific databases.
In addition and most importantly, Springer Open Access journals provides an
automatic waiver for APCs to authors based in developing countries, including
Vietnam, the list of countries can be viewed at this website http://www.springeropen.com/authors/oawaiverfund/. For more information on
SpringerOpen, which is the brand name for Springer open-access journals,
please refer to the attached document.
Thank you and I look forward to your reply.
Best Wishes and Happy Holidays
Ramesh

-----Original Message----From: Dr. Ut V. Le [mailto:ut.le@tdt.edu.vn]

Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:58 PM
To: Premnath, Ramesh Nath, Springer Asia
Cc: h.nguyendang@ulg.ac.be
Subject: Re: Publishing Journal Computational Engineering with Springer
Dear Dr. Premnath,
Prof Nguyen Dang Hung, whom I am the assistant of, (e-mail:
h.nguyendang@ulg.ac.be, homepage: http://www.ltas-rup.ulg.ac.be/dang/) has
just forwarded to me a more updated version of our proposal. Please find it
in the attachment and use this file for your consideration.
Prof. Nguyen Dang Hung will be the editor-in-chief of the journal, so you can
ask him for more information.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Ut V. Le
Reseacher & Assistant of Senior Advisor Prof. Nguyen Dang Hung Department of
Scientific Affairs, Cooperation and Postgraduate Studies Ton Duc Thang
University
Address: Nguyen Huu Tho St., Tan Phong Ward, Dist. 7, HCM City, Vietnam
Website: www.tdt.edu.vn/

Personal homepages: https://sites.google.com/site/levanut/ (Vietnamese),

http://utvle.wordpress.com/ (English)
E-mail: ut.le@tdt.edu.vn; ts.levanut@gmail.com