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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Please see below some information I believe may be of interest to readers of this list.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The full press release is available below and also on the EDP Sciences news page (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 12pt;">http://bit.ly/2ETHlkG</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt;">For any questions, please contact Claus Roll, Publishing Editor, EDP Sciences, </span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">claus.roll@edpsciences.org</span></font><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Open Access Acoustics Journal to be published by EDP Sciences</b></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Paris, France 5 June 2019</b>. EDP Sciences (EDPS) and the European Acoustics Association (EAA) are delighted to announce their partnership to publish <i>Acta Acustica united with Acustica</i> (<i>AAuA</i>) from January 2020.
The partners are also pleased to announce that from this date there will be two additional major changes to the journal: </font></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt;">The journal will b</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt;">ecome a fully gold open access journal ensuring the highest possible
accessibility to quality research in the field of acoustics. </span><br>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif">The EAA’s journal (currently <i>AAuA</i>), is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing original scientific research on all subjects in the field of acoustics and on engineering applications. The editor-in-chief is
Professor Jean Kergomard, the Director of Research at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique, CNRS. The journal includes scientific papers, technical and applied papers, book reviews, short communications, doctoral thesis abstracts, and on occasion,
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif">“The journal will become one of the first in the field of acoustics to be fully open access”, said Jorge Patrico, EAA President. “The growing demand for open access from both the scholarly community and the research funding
bodies in light of Plan S, makes this the right time to make this change. We are extremely pleased to partner with EDP Sciences and excited about the opportunities to come with reinforcing the journal’s position as a leading voice in the field of acoustics”.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Claus Roll, Publishing Editor at EDPS, said, “At EDP Sciences we have a commitment to open access and we are greatly looking forward to a partnership with EAA and with their journal. It’s a privilege to work with such an esteemed
organization as EAA in order to help their journal grow for its future in open access by providing acousticians with a global platform for sharing their work beyond the reach of the traditional research community, and supporting the open scholarship agenda.”</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif">The journal will publish articles under a CC-BY license, enabling authors to be fully compliant with any open access requirements of funding organizations to which they apply. Members of EAA will receive a discount on the article
processing charge, and acousticians of all countries are welcome to publish their results supported by granted projects in the journal.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>About EAA</b></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif">The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is a non-profit entity established in 1992 that includes in its membership societies predominantly in European countries interested in promoting the development and progress of acoustics
in its different aspects, its technologies and applications. The EAA gathers 33 acoustics societies and serves more than 9000 individual members all over Europe. The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is an Affiliate Member of the International Commission
for Acoustics (ICA) and of Initiative of Science in Europe, ISE.</font></p>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>About EDP Sciences</b></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri, sans-serif">EDP Sciences is a not-for-profit publisher with nearly 100 years of history. Established in 1920 by the French Physics Society and several renowned scientists and industrialists including Louis de Broglie, Jean Perrin and Marie
Curie, EDP Sciences is still owned by learned societies and has a mission to participate in the dissemination of important research that accelerates scientific progress and cross-fertilisation of ideas of the society in general. EDP Sciences publishes over
70 scientific journals in the physical sciences, applied mathematics, materials and engineering, life and environmental sciences, health and biomedical sciences. It also publishes open access <a href="https://www.webofconferences.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk622565" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" previewremoved="true">conference
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