Authors Information
All submitted manuscripts will undergo a peer-review process and must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The review process is conducted anonymously (blind review) with the aim of ensuring scientific indexing of the contributions.
In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscript for publication in the scientifically indexed fib Wiley Journal.
All accepted Ph.D. papers included in the proceedings will be freely accessible at the start of the 16th Ph.D. Symposium.
Open Access, Licensing & Copyright
The journal ce/papers is a hybrid Open Access journal published by Ernst & Sohn. This means that it is financed proportionally via a subscription model as well as via revenues from open access publications. ce/papers is available free of charge to most academic institutions under the DEAL initiative in Germany and similar transformational agreements in Austria and many other countries around the world (www.wiley.com).
In addition, we will make all contributions to the conference edition of ce/papers freely available for one year after publication. This ensures access to the conference contributions worldwide, independent from the above‑mentioned agreements.
No costs are involved for either the submitting author or the conference organizer in the publication of the contributions in ce/papers.
When publishing in ce/papers, authors also have the option of releasing their contributions for Open Access. We make this optional offer to the corresponding author by e-mail from cs-author@wiley.com in the course of obtaining the necessary rights for publication (Wiley Authors Licensing Service [WALS]).
The transformational agreements mentioned above usually cover Open Access fees and do not have to be paid by the authors (authorservices.wiley.com).
Authors only incur real costs if they wish to publish an Open Access work and no such transformational agreement exists for the author’s country of origin, or if none of the authors work at an institution covered by the agreement. In these cases, authors can find out in advance about the APCs (Article Publication Charges) (authorservices.wiley.com) that will be charged.
ce/papers: articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The CC-BY license permits commercial and non-commercial re-use of an open-access article, as long as the author is properly attributed. To find out what licenses JOURNAL offers, please consult the Author Compliance Tool (authorservices.wiley.com). For more information about the licenses offered by this journal, please visit the Wiley Author Services (authorservices.wiley.com).
Web of Science – Indexing
The fib PhD Symposium Proceedings will be submitted by the publisher to Clarivate (Web of Science) for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index. We, therefore, request authors to support us in this process by means of high-quality contributions.
Templates
Authors are required to use the official template when preparing their submissions.
You can download the abstract template via the following link: Abstract Template.
The abstract must be no longer than one page.
You may include one figure and up to two references.
All documents must be submitted via the online submission platform provided for this purpose.