JULY 2020

NEW OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING POSSIBILITIES:
Smart Cities, Buildings, Sustainability, Buildings & Cities andFrontiers in Built Environment

Affiliation between CIB and MDPICIB and MDPI have partnered on anaffiliation agreement specifically with threejournals aligning with CIB members’ broad built
environment research portfolios. The
journals are SmartCities, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/smartcities; Buildings, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings; and Sus
tainability http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability.
A conference proceeding option was also negotiated.
MDPI’s journals are published in an open accessmodel. Everyone has free and unlimited access andauthors retain the copyright of their work instead oftransferring it to the publisher. Open accesspublishing is supported by article processing charges
which are paid by the author. A 15% discount will begiven on Sustainability to all CIB members, and 10%
discount for both Smart Cities and Buildings. Article
processing charges are found on each journal’s
website. CIB conference meeting reports can be
published for free in all three journals.
MDPI offers open access publications and aProceedings series specific for conference outputs.
MDPI publishes Proceedings, an outlet dedicated tomaking the output of conferences widely available.
Each conference proceeding can be individuallyindexed, is citable via a digital object identifier (DOI)
and freely available under an open access license.
MDPI can also undertake to print and deliver a highquality conference proceeding book for eachconference participant or arrange delivery as abranded USB stick. Proceedings is available online
through the following search engines: Directory ofOpen Access Journals, EBSCOhost and MDPI Open
Access Journals. The general charge would be € 23 /paper; papers over 9 pages would be an extra € 2 /page. English editing services are available for an
extra charge. MDPI offers XML conversion for an extra€ 28 / paper. The following is an example with XML
conversion, where readers could directly view the fulltext of a paper on thewebsite, http://www.mdpi.com/25043900/43/1/2/htm. For the paper without XML
conversion, if readers would like to see the full text,
they should download the PDF
file. http://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/49/1/10.
Buildings & CitiesBuildings and Cities is an international, open access,peer-reviewed, academic journal publishing highquality research and analysis on the interplay between
the different scales of the built environment: buildings,blocks, neighborhoods, cities, national building stocks
and infrastructures. The journal focuses on built
environment policy, practices and outcomes and therange of economic, environmental, political, social andtechnological issues occurring over the full life cycle. It
provides a platform for new ideas, innovative
approaches and research-based insights that can helpimprove the built environment.

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Buildings & Cities aims to make research accessible
and relevant to academics, policymakers, practitioners,clients, and occupants.

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Background Information here.
Editor in chief: Richard Lorch, richard@rlorch.net
Frontiers in Built Environment
Frontiers in Built Environment publishes rigorously
peer-reviewed research encompassing the engineeringof buildings, sustainable cities and urban spaces. This
multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefrontof disseminating and communicating scientificknowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers,engineers, and the public worldwide. Frontiers in Built
Environment publishes variety of papers e.g. original
research, brief research reports, case studies,conceptual analyses and book reviews. Article
collections can offer interesting opportunity for the CIB
working commissions and task groups to build
content for a certain topic of interest. This can result inspecific e-books (with CIB logo). Backgroundinformation here.
Journal Development Specialist: Laura
Suárez, builtenvironment@frontiersin.org

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