Publishing in “Aircraft Design” with a Continuous Open Access Special Issue

Dieter Scholz

doi:10.3390/aerospace7010005

Abstract

The article looks at publishing options in the field of aircraft design to find that no dedicated journal on aircraft design exists. For this reason, a Continuous Special Issue Aircraft Design of the well established journal “Aerospace” at the Open Access publisher MDPI is started. Often special issues of a journal are introduced for “hot topics”. Here, the subset “special issue” is used for a scientific domain—in this case “aircraft design”. Recurring single special issues are numbered in sequence and are identified by the year of the deadline for manuscript submissions. This allows for the delivery of several single special issues over time in a row without the need to define a publishing schedule up front. Together these single issues form the Continuous Special Issue Aircraft Design and offer a new publishing home for the aircraft design community.

Highlights

Aerospace consists of aeronautics and astronautics [1]
Aircraft design is the very first step in aeronautical engineering, where requirements are converted into a geometrical description of the aircraft
Elsevier’s title had to be discontinued in 2002, when it was decided that the number of subscriptions was too low. This pitfall can be avoided with the Open Access (OA) publishing model [11,12] because the papers finance themselves with article processing charges (APC), which is referred to as “gold OA”

Summary

Introduction

Aerospace consists of aeronautics (atmospheric flight) and astronautics (space flight) [1]. Elsevier’s title had to be discontinued in 2002, when it was decided that the number of subscriptions was too low Today, this pitfall can be avoided with the Open Access (OA) publishing model [11,12] because the papers finance themselves with article processing charges (APC), which is referred to as “gold OA”. No workshop passed without expressing regret about the absence of absence of a dedicated aircraft design journal [13,14,15]. In the same way as in the past, today peoplea dedicatedin aircraft design journal [13,14,15]. The European Workshop on Aircraft Design Education (EWADE) [16] was continued. Design Education (EWADE) in [16]Aircraft was continued with[17], the Symposium on along withonthe

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Aims and Scope

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