Nexus Series of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering is an open access proceedings series with the aim of publishing high-quality and peer-reviewed proceedings of academic conferences and workshops in the broad fields of geosciences and environmental engineering. 

Proceedings articles published in this series will undergo a rigorous peer review process prior to publication. Nexus Series offers a wide range of services, including organizing the submission of conference and disseminating of conference papers worldwide. It endeavors to provide conference organizers an efficient and cost-effective publication process, along with ensuring maximum exposure and wide indexing of scientific conference proceedings. Nexus Series aims to contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) so as to achieve a sustainable future by encouraging scientific research that can help to address the critical social challenges at present.

Topics covered but not limited to by this series:

• Agriculture and Food

• Atmospheric Environment and Climate Change

• Biodiversity

• Biogeochemical Cycles

• Ecology

• Environmental Catalysis

• Environmental Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

• Environmental Impact Assessment

• Environmental System Engineering

• Infrastructure and Sustainability

• Geochemistry

• Geography

• Geology

• Geophysics

• Glaciology

• Geological Engineering

• Green Technology

• Mineralogy and Petrology

• Nature and Landscape Conservation

• Oceanography

• Paleontology

• Pollution

• Soil Science

• Socioeconomics, Policy and Law

• Surveying and Mapping Engineering

• Remote Sensing Information Engineering

• Volcanology

• Water Science and Technology

Under Appointment 

Proposals can only be submitted to Nexus Series of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering online. We are currently in the process of setting up our new online proposal system for this series and will share more information on this shortly. In the meantime, if you want to submit a proceedings proposal for this series or receive more information about our proceedings service, please contact our publishing team at proceedingsSubmission@nexus-press.com to request a proposal form.

To ensure the quality and integrity of the proceedings we publish, your submitted proposal will be further evaluated and assessed by a Series Editor(s) and/or a scientific evaluation committee consisting of selected senior researchers in the relevant field. Note that proceedings proposals outside the scope of our current series might also be considered.

Open Access

Nexus Series of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering is an open access proceedings series, providing free and unrestricted access to all articles for reading, downloading, copying, and distribution under the terms of the applicable end-user license.

Publication Fees

The online publication of each proceedings is sponsored by the conference organizers and hence no additional publication fees are charged to authors by the publisher.

Copyright & End-User & Publication License

The copyright of all articles published in this series remains with the Authors, i.e. Authors retain full ownership of their article. Third-party reuse of the open access articles is governed by the applicable Creative Commons (CC) end-user license, which authors accept upon submitting their paper. All articles in Nexus Series of Humanities and Social Sciences are published under the CC BY 4.0 license. This means that end users can freely share an article on the condition thatproper attribution is given (i.e. appropriate credit, a link to the applicable license and an indication if any changes were made; all in such a way that does not suggest that the licensor endorses the user or the use). 

Upon acceptance of a proceedings proposal, the conference organizer(s) sign(s) a publishing agreement granting Nexus Press an exclusive publication license for the proceedings. This license provides the publisher with the following rights:

• The exclusive right to publish and distribute the proceedings and the articles contained, and to grant this right to others.

• The right to publish and circulate the proceedings articles on an Open Access basis under the Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

• The right to make the proceedings articles available in all forms and media, ensuring compatibility with the latest technology and enabling access even after publication.

• The authority to enforce the rights in the proceedings articles, on behalf of the Authors, against third parties, for example, in the case of plagiarism or copyright infringement.

Peer Review

All proposals for proceedings intended for publication in this series are evaluated by a series editor and/or a scientific evaluation committee comprising senior researchers in the relevant fields.  If accepted, the peer-review process for individual articles in each session is managed by the conference organizer and guest editor for each volume, ensuring compliance with international scientific standards.  A final review of the scientific quality of accepted papers is conducted by the series editor prior to publication.  For additional information, please visit the respective conference pages or the conference website.

Code of Ethics & Malpractice Statement

Nexus Press comply adheres to the ethical frameworks and guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including the COPE Core Practices and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. All ethical issues and cases of misconduct within this series are managed in accordance with these guidelines. Specifically for proceedings,  Nexus Press also applies the IEEE Conference Standards for conference ethics and quality control. For detailed insights into the current conference ethics and quality control measures in proceedings publications, please consult IEEE white paper. For more information on publishing ethics and misconduct, please refer to our Publishing Ethics policy.

DOIs

Each article that is published in a proceedings in this series is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). DOIs are standardized digital identities which can be used to cite and link to electronic content. A DOI is guaranteed to never change, so can be used as a persistent identifier to permanently link to an electronic article no matter where it is stored. 

Permanent Archiving 

Nexus Press is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and to ensure accessibility to this research by converting and upgrading digital file formats to comply with new technology standards. Besides maintaining its own digital archive, Nexus Press therefore collaborates with the National Library of the Netherlands which permanently archives all Nexus Press content in their “e-Depot”. All volumes of Nexus Series of Humanities and Social Sciences are uploaded to this e-Depot after publication to guarantee permanent archiving of the articles. Note that the e-Depot is available through on-site access at the National Library of the Netherlands and if Nexus Press would be unable to provide access to content on its own platform (temporarily, in an emergency or permanently) access to the e-Depot can be provided to the global public on request.