This number of RAUSP marks a major change in a 40-year history of commitment to disseminate state-of-the-art research in administration and accounting in Brazil.
We can say that the magazine has succeeded in continually pointing out new directions for the area through the publication of the works of its most renowned researchers, which reflects in the impact indicators, particularly lifespan of articles, one of the longest among journals in the field in Brazil.
The increasing globalization of Administration and Accounting education and research requires the exposure of the production and maintenance of dialogue with this global community, for which the language cannot be a barrier.
RAUSP responds to these challenges with two radical changes from this number on:
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The journal is published entirely in English, making it more accessible to readers and international authors.
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The magazine production becomes the responsibility of an international publishing company - Elsevier, which will bring its recognized communications experience with the academic community to the process. This includes information systems for submission, evaluation and the whole magazine production. Elsevier will also provide the magazine's content in one of the most accessible repositories, which is Science Direct. As an additional service, the past five years of articles will be available in this directory (in the language in which they were published). We emphasize that coordination, definition of editorial and content policy, as well as all interaction with authors and reviewers remain the responsibility of FEA-USP, which will also keep the tradition of offering all the magazine's content available and free to its readers.
The content of RAUSP will continue to be available in other repositories, such as SciELO, Redalyc, Portal de Revistas da USP, SPELL and others, and RAUSP's own portal for previous issues.
Information technology has also led, over the years, to an important change in the search and reading habits of scientific papers: the globalized systems of search and information storage caused the print medium to be less and less used. For this reason the RAUSP will no longer be offered in print, consequently ending the signatures system, since its content is available and free in multiple repositories and search systems. Readers who wish may continue printing RAUSP from the information to be made available on the website.
This number also marks changes in the magazine's publishing: the arrival of new deputy editors as well as the upgrade and expansion of our board of assessors, which should allow a faster flow of evaluation processes, attracting new authors and best international dissemination of the magazine.
Finally there is also the "passing of the baton" of scientific editor to Professor Dr. Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes, whom I thank for having accepted the challenge of leading RAUSP to the new level of quality, due to her records and contribution to the area.
For me it has been a privilege to be at the forefront of this initiative over the past 8 years, having experienced the dynamism and development of research in our field, continuous incentive to improve the quality of our publications and to find that our scientific production has an increasing impact in the community.
I appreciate the confidence and support I have received over the years from the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accounting, in particular FEAUSP's Department of Administration, team of collaborators, the Editorial Board, the Editorial Policy Committee and the financial and administrative support of the Fundação Instituto de Administração - FIA and our authors and readers, which I am sure will also be with Professor Sylvia in this new journey of consolidation and advancement of RAUSP.
Prof. Dr. Nicolau Reinhard
Prof. Dr. Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes
Scientific Editors
Revista de Administração
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
Jan-Mar 2016
