The Molecular Foundry, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
J Sep Sci. 2013 Aug;36(16):i-ii. doi: 10.1002/jssc.201370153.
Regular special issues concerning monoliths have always been a stronghold of the Journal of Separation Science. Typically, we issued a call for papers, collected and processed the submitted manuscripts, and all of them were then printed in a single issue of the journal. This approach worked to a certain limit quite acceptably but there was always a longer waiting time between the early submissions and publication. This is why we decided to do it this year differently. I claimed in my 2013 New Years Editorial: "We are living in the electronic era! Why not to make an advantage of that?" And we do. As a result, all manuscript submitted for publication in the special issue Monoliths have already been published in regular issues as soon as they were accepted. The first page of these papers includes a footnote: "This paper is included in the virtual special issue Monoliths available at the Journal of Separation Science website." All papers published with this footnote were collected in a virtual special issue accessible through the internet. This concept ruled out possible delays in publication of contributions submitted early. Since we did not have any real "special issue", there was no need for any hard deadline for submission. We just collected manuscripts submitted for the special issue Monoliths published from January to July 2013 and included them in the virtual special issue. This new approach worked very well and we published 22 excellent papers that are included in the issue available now at this website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1615-9314/homepage/virtual_special_issue__monoliths.htm.
关于整体柱的特刊一直是《分离科学杂志》的一个强项。通常，我们会发布征稿通知，收集和处理提交的稿件，然后将它们全部刊登在期刊的一个特刊中。这种方法在一定程度上是可以接受的，但从早期提交到出版之间总是有一个较长的等待时间。这就是为什么我们决定今年要有所不同。我在 2013 年新年社论中声称：“我们生活在电子时代！为什么不利用这一点呢？”我们做到了。结果，所有提交出版的特刊稿件一经被接受，就已在常规期刊中发表。这些论文的第一页包括一个脚注：“本文包含在《分离科学杂志》网站上提供的整体柱虚拟特刊中。”所有带有此脚注的论文都被收集在一个可通过互联网访问的虚拟特刊中。这个概念排除了对早期提交的论文发表可能出现的延迟。由于我们没有真正的“特刊”，因此提交的截止日期也没有必要。我们只是收集了 2013 年 1 月至 7 月期间提交的特刊整体柱论文，并将其收录在虚拟特刊中。这种新方法效果非常好，我们发表了 22 篇优秀的论文，这些论文包含在本网站现在提供的问题中：http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1615-9314/homepage/virtual_special_issue__monoliths.htm。
