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CAS Society News
By Gabriele Manganaro, Mohamad Sawan, and Yong Lian

Launching the Open Journal
of Circuits and Systems
n June, the IEEE announced the launch of 14 Open Access (OA) Journals, hence adding onto the other OA
journals that some of the other IEEE societies have
been successfully offering over the past few years. The
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) is among
these 14. CASS has just started up one of these journals,
called "The IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems
(OJ-CAS)." This is a new gold fully open access journal,
spanning the full scope of the IEEE CASS's field of interest, and that, as in the other cases, will only publish online articles.
OJ-CAS is ready to accept manuscript submissions
and prospective authors will find relevant information
and instructions on the CASS website, or simply going
directly to the OJ-CAS webpage: http://www.ieee-cas
.org/publications/open-journal-circuits-and-systems. Articles will be published in the form of regular papers and
short papers, in 10-12 pages and 5-6 pages in length in
the two-column IEEE Transactions format respectively.
To be considered for publication, all submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed with the very same procedures, scientific and ethical rigor of our existing CASS
transactions. Such standards of scientific quality will
be upheld by OJ-CAS's Editorial Board, composed of a
truly outstanding team of accomplished experts in CAS
fields, most of them have previously served in the same
or analogous role, and all of them are equally committed
to living up to the same output and service to readers
that distinguishes our journals. We are grateful for their
volunteering service and personal commitment. The list
of members of Editorial Board can be found at the above
referred OJ-CAS webpage.
Just like all the other IEEE Open Access journals and
being, indeed, accessible without restrictions, OJ-CAS
will publish on IEEE Xplore, protected under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), without requiring IEEE membership from readers or journal
subscription fees. That is in contrast with most of the

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traditional IEEE journals, requiring readers for a subscription or a direct payment per paper to gain access
to the articles.
Much has been written about the differences between OA journals and subscription publications and
we defer the reader to much more in-depth coverage of
this matter, widely available on multiple sources. But a
few important points deserve attention.
First off, OJ-CAS will be fully compliant with funder
mandates, including Plan S, an international consortium
of research funders, requiring, from 2021, that scientific
publications resulting from research funded by public
grants must be published in compliant Open Access
journals or platforms. Similar initiatives are ongoing or
in the making and, as such, CASS owes it to our community to be in front of that and OJ-CAS allows authors to
meet this critical requirement.
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