Hindawi updates Editorial structure to further support Open Science and the academic research community

"Hindawi today announces updates to its journals’ Editorial models to more fully serve their communities and the researchers that publish within them in the era of Open Access, Open Data, Open Infrastructure and Open Science. The open access publisher will be appointing Chief Editors on some titles during 2019 to champion both their journal and Open Science practices, such as data sharing, within the wider academic community. Hindawi is committed to fostering Open Science to help researchers make their research more easy to discover, understand and reuse. To drive this forward, Chief Editors will be directly involved in leading the transition of all journals to follow Open Science practices. As well as having responsibility for the journal’s Aims and Scope and editorial mission, Chief Editors’ will ensure that published articles are in line with the journal aims and that the journal’s output represents a contribution to the specific research community it serves...."