The Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education in Science (ERIES)

The Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science (ERIES) (https://www.eriesjournal.com/index.php/eries) was founded in the Spring of 2008. It began as a conference in 2004 organized by the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. After four years of taking place in the Czech Republic, there was a need for growth in order to accomplish its purposes. The journal is published four times a year and seeks to enhance efficiency and reflexivity within sciences and education:

· the theory and methodology of pedagogy, education, and science;

· human resources and human relations management;

· knowledge management and knowledge engineering;

· systems engineering and information engineering - applications in education and/or science;

· quantitative methods for education and/or science. (https://www.eriesjournal.com/index.php/eries/about)

The ERIES Journal is a scientific journal that is international and open access. Submissions are double-blind peer reviewed. These submissions can be short communications, review studies, or full research papers. The journal, in describing itself as open access, says,

"all its content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source."

Their guiding principle for being an open access journal is to support a greater exchange of knowledge on a global scale. They welcome work that deals with efficiency, ethics, aesthetics, responsibilities, elegance etc. within education or appropriated scientific disciplines.

The journal does not explicitly place itself within the open access movement. As a journal that focuses on responsibilities, they also have a page on their website relating to ethical expectations (https://www.eriesjournal.com/index.php/eries/ethics).

This journal was found by searching the term ‘engineering education’ in the Directory of Open Access Journals which provided the following description of the journal upon selection from the list of results: