ECNU and CSP join hands in publishing Anthropocene Coasts.
ECNU signed an agreement with Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) on September 27 to jointly publish an international scholarly journal, Anthropocene Coasts.
ECNU president Chen Qun and Suzanne Gail Kettley, CSP's executive director and publisher, attended the ceremony at the university's Zhongshan Road North campus. Prof. Gao Shu, director of the State Key Laboratory for Estuarine and Coastal Research at ECNU, chaired the ceremony, which was also witnessed by more than 10 officials and scholars, including Prof. Zhou Yunxuan, director of ECNU's International Exchange Division; Yu Shi’en, Party chief of the State Key Laboratory for Estuarine and Coastal Research; Wang Danhua, CSP liason with ECNU.
Suzanne Gail Kettley, CSP's executive director and publisher,delivers a speech.
Anthropocene Coasts is devoted to the estuarine and coastal research in the Anthropocene period. This historical period is critical for the social and economic development. Therefore, the journal is concerned with multidisciplinary studies on the regime shift in response to concentrated human activities in the world estuarine and coastal regions, with the background of climate change.
The first issue of the journal is scheduled to be published in 2017 and to be an open-access journal in electronic version, following the trend of the current international publication development. It will provide a high-quality publication forum for a global population of scientists.
Chen said he has faith in that the journal will play a key role in helping achieve a sustainable development of the ocean zone, which is endangered by aggravating human activities, because the publication is a fruit of the partnership between two prestigious institutions in the field.
The ceremony for signing the agreement is held at ECNU.
According to him, CSP is a high-level scholarly publisher with high-quality editorial standards and a wide readership, and is seasoned in management, publishing dozens of international SCI (Science Citation Index) journals. An important research university in China, ECNU has laid a solid foundation in research on the earth and environment science. The State Key Laboratory for Estuarine and Coastal Research has extensive influence in the field and been active in international cooperation.
Kettley said that CSP is very excited to be entering into this partnership to co-publish a new journal, Anthropocene Coasts, with ECNU, one of the most prestigious research-intensive institutions in China with top-class researchers.
Kettley awards Prof. Gao Shu a certificate.
CSP is an international quality peer-reviewed science journal publisher with a long history. At present, it publishes 21 research journals that are circulated in more than 175 countries, including Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, which is a leading fishery journal worldwide.
She believed that ECNU and CSP will complement each other and result in a successful and prosperous partnership.
She awarded Prof. Gao Shu, the founding editor of Anthropocene Coasts, and held a heated discussion on cooperation details of the journals with the present scholars.
