J.UCS Folder

You are cordially invited to download a new information folder about J.UCS which you can freely distribute.

Open access

It is a great pleasure to inform our readers, authors, editors and subscribers that three organisations in Graz, Austria, headed by Graz University of Technology (www.tugraz.at), and supported by the KNOW-Center (www.know-center.org) and Campus 02 (http://www.campus02.at/) have decided to support the Open Access Initiative for scientific literature: the three organisations will cover the costs of running J.UCS (and its younger sister journals J.UKM and J.USTL) in the future. At the present moment, we are also negotiating with two further institutions: if these negotiations are successful, we will be able to include further journals in the initiative).

This means that volume 13 and all back-issues (by now some 1.500 contributions) are now accessible to everyone free of charge. The same applies to J.UKM and J.USTL.

We are convinced that open access will make J.UCS will even more attractive than it already is: a high-quality, peer-reviewed journal published monthly in an electronic edition and annually in printed form. (The latter will still have to be paid for since the printing costs and postage must be covered by the sale.)

External Reviewers

J.UCS would like to thank external reviewers for their support and help with the evaluation of submissions to our journal.

Call for membership in the Board of Editors

We are aware that the decision to provide open access to J.UCS will almost certainly increase the number of submissions. In order to alleviate the review load in the future, we want to encourage top researchers to join our editorial board.

Editorial Board Profile:

• a senior position at a university (Associate Professor with tenure as minimum)
• significant list of English language publications including at least 6-10 in well-known refereed journals

The work load of the members of the editorial board is modest: as member of the board you are expected to review 1-2 papers of your choice once a year, and to encourage high-quality submissions to the journal. Naturally, you can resign from the editorial board any time you want, without specifying a reason. All editors are also listed in the annual archive printed edition of J.UCS.

Submissions

J.UCS accepts submission from all areas of computer science. The submitted article must be an original contribution and may not be submitted to or already have been published in another journal. Furthermore, the article has to be a self-contained entity, i.e. the paper can be understood without knowledge of any previous articles published in J.UCS or elsewhere.

Submissions will only be dealt with if

1. the paper is formatted according to the J.UCS guide lines (see http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html)
2. after we have received a copyright transfer statement for the paper. You can either upload an electronic version of the copyright transfer statement via web together with your paper or you can fax us the signed copyright transfer statement to +43 316 873 5699

   The copyright transfer statement can be downloaded from http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/copyright.html.

The submission is sent to the members of the J.UCS editorial board. If at least three reviewers sign up for a review of the paper, the submission is accepted. The authors are notified about the status of their submission within 3 weeks. If we fail to find the required number of reviewers, the submission is withdrawn and the authors are free to submit their paper to another journal of their choice.

Attention:

Because of the great number of submissions that J.UCS has received during the last three months, the duration of the refereeing process is at the present moment at least 8 months. Authors are kindly requested to consider this upon submission.

Printed Issues

The printed annual archive edition 2005 is now available and can be ordered by faxing us the order form from http://www.jucs.org/jucs_info/print/print.html.

Archive edition 2006

March 2008