We are pleased to announce that Alan Singleton is joining Publications’ Editorial Board as the new Editor in Chief.

Singleton originally qualified in physics from Oxford University. This was followed by a couple of years in the electronics industry and then by a Masters in Information Science. He worked at the IoP (Institute of Physics) for a few years in the 1970s on a grant, studying communication in physics before a short spell as a commissioning editor at Elsevier. This was followed by five years at Leicester University as a Research Fellow in Research Communication, and then by a period working for an arm of the subscription agent, Faxon. Then, from 1985–1998 he was at IoP Publishing, initially as a research officer, but ending his time there as Journals Director. He was science, medicine (books) and electronic publishing director at OUP (Oxford University Press) for three years and, in 2001, became Managing Director of the publishing arm of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Professional Engineering Publishing) in the UK. He retired from full-time publishing in 2009—since then he has been a consultant (mostly managing and assisting bid processes for learned societies seeking a journal publisher), and was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Learned Publishing from 2010 until the end of 2014. Over the years he has published more than 50 papers and articles on many aspects of academic publishing and information.

Publications (ISSN 2304-6775) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to all aspects of academic, scholarly, and professional publishing. The journal is indexed by ESCI - Emerging Sources Citation Index (Thomson Reuters) and Web of Science.