Professor Tarassenko is first Chief Advisor for new Open Access Journal — Department of Engineering Science

"The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has announced the appointment of Professor Lionel Tarassenko as the first of a team of Chief Advisors who will support and promote 'The Journal of Engineering', the IET’s new open access publication, due for launch in 2013. The decision to establish an international team of Chief Advisors reflects the broad scope and global reach of the new journal which will provide open access to essential engineering intelligence.  Professor Lionel Tarassenko, CBE, FREng, MA, DPhil, CEng, FIET, has been holder of the Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of Oxford since 1997. A Fellow of the IET and the Royal Academy of Engineering, he is the recipient of numerous awards and honours including a CBE for services to engineering, the 2006 Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEE Mather Premium and the IET’s IT Award for 'Data Fusion Software for Early Detection of Patient Deterioration'.  The IET has also announced it will be adopting the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY licence for open access articles published across its portfolio of journals. The Attribution CC BY licence, which will be mandated by RCUK (Research Councils UK) as of April 2013, and is also being mandated by other funding bodies, allows others to distribute and build upon published research, as long as the original creation is fully credited.