材料系專題演講

張堯卿博士 (自然通訊 資深主編)

Title: Publishing with Nature Journals

演講時間/地點:108.08.13(二)10:30~12:00 台達館401會議室

Abstract: Nature journals have a two-fold mission: facilitating the prompt communications of the most important scientific developments to the relevant research communities, while at the same time fostering a greater appreciation of these great works of science amongst the non-specialists. Although more titles have joined the Nature family of journals in the recent years, these core principles remain largely unchanged. In this talk, I will endeavor to shed light on how our editors apply these principles in practice, and so determine which few of the many high quality research submissions that we receive make it through to publication. Moreover, as the scholarly publishing landscape is currently undergoing a period of unprecedented change, particularly given the launch of ‘Plan S’, an initiative advocating the transition to full and immediate open access to research publications, I will also try to show some of the benefits of publishing open access and introduce the measures we have taken to facilitate open science at Nature Communications.  

About the speaker: Yaoqing Zhang is a Senior Editor at Nature Communications, where he handles a wide swath of manuscripts spanning the areas of energy materials research, with a particular focus on solid state ionics and electrochemical energy storage. Prior to that, he held an assistant professorship in Tokyo Institute of Technology. His postdoc research involving understanding of magnetism in low dimensional oxides was also in Japan and he received training as a solid state chemist in the University of St Andrews for a PhD degree. Dr Zhang is based in the Shanghai office, and outside the area of his editorial responsibility, he is enthusiastic about crystallography, superconductivity and high pressure chemistry.