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Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems calls for authors

SAGE Publications is inviting authors to submit research for publication in the Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems. You do have an opportunity to preview the journal (and others) for free until Oct. 31, 2011. You will have to register here before getting access to all the content.

Here are some more details from the Oct. 5, 2011 news item on Nanowerk,

The Journal reflects work on real devices, processes and materials that arise from transitioning the scientific and engineering database. Overseen by an editorial board of international experts, headed up by Professor Max Yen, all papers published are peer-reviewed and of the highest quality. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS and your paper will be published as soon as possible on our award-winning SAGE Journals Online platform.

This journal is being issued four times annually on behalf of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and registration will give you free access (within the time constraints previously mentioned) to all the IMechE journals on the site. For anyone not familiar with IMechE, I’ve excerpted this description from their About the Institution page on their website,

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is the fastest growing professional engineering institution in the UK. Our 98,000 members work at the heart of the country’s most important and dynamic industries.

With a 160-year heritage supporting us, today’s Institution is a forward-looking, campaigning organisation. By working with leading companies, universities and think tanks, we create and share knowledge to provide government, businesses and the public with fresh thinking and authoritative guidance on all aspects of mechanical engineering.

We truly believe we can improve the world through engineering. So the Institution finds and nurtures new talent, helping engineers build their careers and take on the challenges that, when solved, will make a difference to all of us.

The tag line says it all “improving the world through engineering”.

Upstream engagement and nano plus some quick bits

Upstream engagement is a term used to describe a type of public engagement/consultation/understanding of science exercise. The idea is that if you inform people (the public mostly) about discoveries and innovations after the fact that they are more likely to reject them. So using the metaphor of a river, it’s easier to affect the flow of the river (public opinion) upstream than it is downstream where it has gotten bigger and more powerful.

The example that’s often used to illustrate the point is biotechnology and, as the thinking goes, the public engagement/consultation/understanding projects were started too late (too far downstream) to have an effect on the panic that occurred. To restate, if people had been better informed and more science literate they would not have panicked as they did.

Since I’ve just written a number of postings explaining my thinking about the use of public engagement/consultation/understanding projects as prophylactic treatments for public panics, I’ll move on to another goal for these projects: information gathering from the public with an intent to collaborate. But I’m doing that in a posting later this week.

It looks like Alberta is about to get $3.3M from the Canadian federal government to look into environmental issues posed by nanotechnology. They are planning to have a panel headquartered in Alberta at the National Institute of Nanotechnology in Edmonton. 13 scientists, five universities, three government departments,  and two national institutes of research will be cooperating on this panel. (I’m not sure what they mean by cooperation as it’s not explained but you can take a look at the article here.) It’s not a done deal yet.

If your dream is to have your nanotechnology writings appear in a nanotechnology encyclopedia, then SAGE Publications has a deal for you. They are looking for authors. For more detail, go to this article here or you can contact Susan Moskowitz, Managing Editor, Author Recruitment, Golson Books Ltd., her email is nano@golsonmedia.com.