CJChE signs on with Wiley-Blackwell.

The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) announces that it has signed an agreement with Wiley-Blackwell, a part of global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., to publish The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (CJChE) on its behalf. Wiley-Blackwell will assume publishing responsibilities beginning with Volume 86, Number 1, February 2008. The CJChE has been published by the CSChE, a Constituent Society of the Chemical Institute of Canada, since 1957.

For scientific and technical journal publishing, the means of distribution has settled into new models, driven in large part by the growth of consortial licensing. The CJChE will be better served by a more efficient and extensive on-line distribution network, particularly as applied to academic and corporate research libraries.

To ensure future success, the CJChE must continue to expand its readership, extend its influence, and improve its financial profile. The keys to this success are: growth in institutional licensing; improvement in Impact Factor, ISI ranking, and citation rate; building a high-value global journal brand; attracting a growing international authorship; and publishing the highest quality content in the subject area. To achieve these goals, Wiley-Blackwell will focus on the following initiatives: increasing international awareness and usage; expanding institutional licensing to increase usage and access; increasing article-based revenues; leveraging CJChE backfile; and increasing impact factor.

Led by editor Kumar Nandakumar, FCIC, of the department of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Alberta, Wiley-Blackwell will publish the CJChE in print and on-line via Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). Wiley-Blackwell will provide on-line access to select articles in advance of print publication via its Early View service and will launch an extensive backfile initiative to digitize journal content prior to Volume 80. Currently, issues are available online beginning with August 2002.

"By utilizing Wiley-Blackwell's extensive publishing experience to reach a broader audience, as well as to provide electronic access to our historic content, the agreement will further advance our goals of helping professionals remain current with technology and encouraging the development of chemical enterprise," said David T. Fung, MCIC, chair and CEO of the ACDEG Group of companies and president of the CSChE.

Chemical Institute of Canada