About this journal

OAtube Nanotechnology is a new kind of scientific journal dedicated to archiving conference presentations and providing citation information for them. The journal is built on the idea that conference presentations can have great impact on scientific development over the long term.

The basic oatube article contains a title, a list of authors with their institutional affiliations, an abstract of no more than 500 words including references, and the conference presentation (a PowerPiont presentation with embedded audio narration).

All the oatube presentations archived are open access, free to read on the Internet.

Abstracted and/or Indexed in:

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Google Scholar
• JournalSeek
• NewJour
  

Aim and scope

For most of scientists and engineers, publishing in academic journals and presenting at professional conferences are the two most dominant outlets for sharing research with colleagues. The advantages of conference presentations are obvious. Often very colorful, offering face-to-face communication, conference presentations can instantly capture an audience's attention. The disadvantages of conference presentations, on the other hand, are their short lifetime and limited audience. In most cases, only conference attendees can enjoy presentation materials, and only during a conference. While many of today’s conferences have their own websites, the majority of conference websites provide only limited content: the titles of presentations and the names of presenters, often without even an abstract.

While organizations are increasingly beginning to provide presentation materials online post-conference, such materials often come and go quickly. Current conference organizing systems have not proved suitable in that they fail to give presentations credit for potential long-term impact. Thus, conference presenters are left to credit their own presentations by listing them in their curriculum vitae or by referring to them in journal publications. Unfortunately, such presentation materials, even though cited, are in most cases no longer available for review.

OAtube Nanotechnology is founded on the premise that many conference presentations do have long-term impact, being the sources for future discovery. Thus, the oatube journal aims to archive them in a new form. OAtube Nanotechnology is a new kind of scientific journal, a royal representative of conference presentations containing journal-style citation information about presentations as a resource for other researchers. Authors keep the copyright of their journal articles. This new kind of journal only provides an open-access approach for conference presentations to reach the widest possible audience through the Internet.

Editorial board

Editors-in-Chiefs
Zhiming M. Wang
Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

Co-Editors
Emmanouil E. Lioudakis
Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus

Zongwen Liu
Australian Key Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia

Associate Editors
Junhong Chen
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA;
Bonex W. Mwakikunga
CSIR- National Centre for Nano-Structured Materials, Pretoria, South Africa;

Assistant Editors

Editorial Board

Instructions to authors

Individual submissions should come from the author who attended the conference and gave the presentation. Group submissions from conference organizers are encouraged but the organizers must have commitments from the presenting authors. In either case, the article copyright belongs to the listed authors. A group submission may be organized into a thematic issue if the conference organizers are willing to act as guest editors and provide an editorial forward.

Please note, the conference presentation should be prepared as a Microsoft Powerpoint file with an embedded audio narration. Visit PowerPoint And Narration for detailed guidelines on how to record a narrative presentation  directly in PowerPoint. Please avoid the use of rare fonts, special characters, picture bullets, underlined text, and multiple slide masters in the powerpoint files. Sign up for a free account at authorstream and upload the powerpoint file with the display option set as private. Once the presentation is successfully processed, you may need to optimize it. Submit your presentation by emailing nano@oa-host.org, with your sign-in email address and password of your authorstream account and an attached Microsoft Word file (including a title, a list of authors with their institutional affiliations, an abstract of no more than 500 words including references). Hyperlinked references, particularly DOI links are encouraged. Following submission, you will receive an e-mail confirming receipt of  the submission.

All submissions are subject to prescreening by the journal’s editors and will be selected for peer-review and publication mainly for their potential for long-term impact.

The final articles are a new kind of publication, similar to conference presentations in nature, not forfeiting but encouraging other publications such as conference proceedings.

The rise of the open-access model for scientific publishing relies on authors bearing the costs of publication. OAtube goes one step further — authors’ acceptance of publication charges for their papers in this journal is voluntary, under the following conditions. Only if authors appreciate the editorial service provided and the high visibility promised, and only if authors are able to pay, do they pay a suggested publication fee of US$500 per article. These fees will help to continue and upgrade the journal operation, to make the journal a valuable information center, and to maximize dissemination of journal contents.

Instructions to referees

Peer review is still regarded as the best way to assess the originality, validity, importance, and reliability of research presented in this video journal.

The peer-review process has traditionally been voluntary for scientific publications. We offer another excellent reason for participating in the process: all the publications you approve are free to access on the Internet for the benefit of the widest possible audience, including yourself, your colleagues, and everyone with an interest in this exciting video platform.

In reviewing the submissions, please consider the following criteria:

* The objectives of the article are clearly stated
* The results in the article are correct and clearly stated
* The interpretation of results in terms of theories, models, etc., is clear
* The significance of the research reported in the article in the context of past and/or future studies
* The overall quality of presentation

For our readers

Please take full advantage of this open-access and video-access resource, not only the freedom to read and watch articles, but also to cite them and reuse them for any lawful purpose. Each article’s copyright belongs to the author or authors but the articles are free to reuse as long as original authorship is properly acknowledged and cited.

OAtube friends

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OAtube L-Friends

If you maintain your own Web pages, there are a number of ways you can support oatube and become a linked friend (L-friends). Provide a backlink to OAtube Nanotechnology, http://www.oatube.org/; Display the oatube RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed on your own webpages. The RSS feed can keep audiences regularly updated without visiting the oatube website. Audiences also have the option to subscribe to recent oatube articles through email without a RSS feed reader.

All oatube presentations archived are free to reuse as long as original authorship is properly acknowledged and cited. All oatube articles are followed with full information for citation. You are encouraged to list any citations to oatube through the associated commentary areas, no matter what kind of Medias, such as journal articles, book chapters and online resources. 

OAtube G-Friends

Make a donation to support oatube and become an oatube golden friend (G-friend). All donations can be made using a credit card or PayPal account. The donations will help to continue and upgrade the journal operation, to make the journal a valuable information center, and to maximize dissemination of journal contents. All oatube G-friends with over US$50 contributions are listed on this website, unless they do not want their names shared.

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OAtube Sponsorships

OAtube sponsorships provide financial support to launch new publishing projects and promote video access to broader audiences. We highlight oatube sponsors in this website with their statements to support video-access and links to their organizations’ web sites. Regardless of your budget, we have an appropriate sponsorship to meet your needs. For more information, please email tube@oa-host.org.

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