The Virtual Journal of Environmental Sustainability is available exclusively on the Web. It is a virtual journal in that it lists articles with an environmental sustainability component recently published in a wide range of Elsevier journals. The articles are personally selected by the Editors, Dr Naoyuki Funamizu, Professor Toshimasa Oh-hara, Professor Takayuki Shimaoka, and Professor Tsuyoshi Fujita, on the basis of their potential to highlight interesting and important developments in the area of environmental sustainability.
The purpose of this virtual journal is essentially twofold. Firstly, it provides users with an expert literature search for environmental sustainability papers across the whole range of Elsevier's journals in Environmental Sciences. These journals each have their own original scientific orientation, and in combination cover general resources management, life cycle assessment, waste management, policy regulations and environmental risk assessment. Secondly, these papers, together with the opinions and ideas available in the viewpoints section, provide users with a solid basis for reflection and analysis pulling together the work undertaken in many different disciplines.
Access to this site of the Virtual Journal of Environmental Sustainability is free. The abstracts of the selected papers are freely available to all users on the Science Direct platform. The full text of the papers can be accessed if the user's institute has a Science Direct subscription or has registered for Science Direct Web Editions.
New issues are published monthly.
Original manuscript submissions to the Virtual Journal of Environmental Sustainability are not accepted. However, an article may be selected for inclusion in the Virtual Journal of Environmental Sustainability if it falls within its scope and is published in one of the source journals. Those wishing to submit a manuscript to one of the source journals should follow the link to the list of source journals. Information on manuscript preparation and submission is available on the home pages of the source journals.
When citing an article that has appeared in this virtual journal, the source journal article should be cited - the virtual journal itself should NOT be cited. For a given virtual journal article, the appropriate full citation for the source journal article appears in the virtual journal table of contents entry and in the virtual journal abstract for that article. The article citation information is also found in the source journal resources to which the virtual journal points, including the full text of the article.