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agnetic Resonance in Solids. Electronic Journal.

Information for prospective authors

Magnetic Resonance in Solids, Electronic Journal (MRSej) is a peer-reviewed, all electronic journal, publishing articles which meet the highest standards of scientific quality in the field of basic research of a magnetic resonance in solids and related phenomena. MRSej is free, for the authors (no page charges) as well as for the readers (no subscription fee). The language of MRSej is English. All exchanges of information will take place via Internet. Articles are submitted in electronic form (see Submission rules for details) and the refereeing process uses electronic mail. All accepted articles are immediately published by being made publicly available by www, ftp and e-mail. Subscribers automatically receive the Title and Abstract of every new Article published.

In "Submission rules" you find details about acceptable formats for the text and figures.

What happens after submission of a paper?

The Executive Editor compiles the paper. If an error occurs, the paper is deleted and the author is forwarded a message mentioning the problem (optionally including the error message), and including a formal letter saying that the paper was rejected due to failure of the compile procedure, and asking the author to correct errors and to resubmit the paper. If compile procedure was successful, the author is forwarded a message containing a manuscript number and saying that the manuscript was received and that it is going to be refereed. The Executive Editor sends the paper to the author-selected Editor, and the abstract to all members of the board.
The author-selected Editor receives the paper through MRSej. He forwards the paper to referees, and within two weeks reports his decision to the editorial board. If the paper is rejected by the Editor, the Executive Editor forwards the author e-mail letter saying that the paper is rejected. If the paper is accepted by the Editor, the secretary forwards the paper and referee's report(s) and opinions of other members of the board (if any exist) to the Editors-in-Chief, who make the final decision within one weeks. The paper is accepted for publication in case one Editor-in-Chief accepts the paper.
In case the author decides to withdraw the paper, he/she forwards this decision to the editorial board, using "SUBJECT: MRSej manuscript number, withdrawn".
Accepted version of a paper is the form that will be in the Journal; the author will not be able to make any changes, except: errata and additions can be attached to the end and, where appropriate, be added to the main text calling attention to these addendums. The only way for the author to "revise" the paper is to withdraw it (as indicated in 3) and to submit the revised version as a new manuscript.
The paper is given its final number (a new volume is started if the current volume is decided to be full) and MRSej proceeds to put the volume headers and first page of article with MRS Logo. The resulting file is forwarded to the author.
Authors retain ownership of copyright to their work, subject to appropriate use of the work by the journal. For details consult the Copyright Agreement , which ALL authors must sign before the paper will be published.Then

If the author agrees with final form of the paper, he(she) informs the Executive Editor by E-mail. The accepted article will be added to the designated volume immediately after receiving

of the author E-mail message confirming the final form of the article and
of handsigned Copyright Agreement by "real" mail or FAX addressed to Executive Editor (see address below).

So, the use of "real paper" LIMITS a single page per article!

If the author does not agree that MRSej publish the current paper under the indicated conditions, the paper is considered withdrawn.

A printed paper version of each article in the journal is archived in the Kazan State University Library.

Executive Editor, Dr. Yurii Proshin
Department of Theoretical Physics, Physics Faculty
Kazan State University, Kremlevskaya, 18,
Kazan, 420008,
Russia

Fax: (007)-8432-380994; E-mail: Editor@mrsej.ksu.ru

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