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Minerals, Metals & Materials Society Goes Open in 2012

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TMS.jpg Just announced this week, the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and Springer will launch a new Open Access journal, "Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation" or "IMMI". The news was released at the Materials Science & Technology 2011 Conference & Exhibition (MS&T'11) in Columbus, Ohio. The journal will begin publishing in early 2012. According to the press release : Under the Open Access model, articles published in "IMMI" will be available to the public at no charge, and authors will own the copyright on their articles. This exciting development will combine the peer review rigor of scholarly publications with enhanced digital content. Authors will be encouraged to post video, data, models/codes, links to databases, and commentary.