The South African Institution of Civil Engineering
SAICE Journal
Overview
The Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering — ISSN 1021-2019 (print) and ISSN 2309-8775 (online) — which is an ISI (Thomson Reuters Web of Science) and SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) accredited journal, publishes peer-reviewed research papers on all aspects of Civil Engineering that are relevant/applicable to Africa, particularly to Southern Africa. It is distributed internationally and is published quarterly (March, June, September, December), and is controlled by the SAICE Journal Editorial Panel.The forerunner of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering was established in 1903 as a learned society aiming to improve and share knowledge about civil engineering developments of the day. The minutes of the proceedings of the then Cape Society of Civil Engineers mainly contained technical papers presented and discussed at the Society's meetings. Since then, and throughout its long history during which time it has undergone several name changes, the organisation has continued to publish technical papers in its monthly publication (magazine) until 1993 when it created a separate journal (the current journal) for the publication of such technical papers.
Peer Reviewing
Following an initial selection/screening process, all eligible papers are peer-reviewed by at least two referees whose identities remain confidential (blind peer-review).
Open-access Journal
The Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering is available as an open-access publication on the following websites:
As an open-access journal the content is freely available to users or their institutions. Users may therefore read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, or use these for any other lawful purpose. The South African Institution of Civil Engineering however requires the usual appropriate referencing to our journal as the publisher of the article/s (also refer to the next section under Creative Commons Licence).Creative Commons Licence
The content of the Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering , except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY-NC-ND) which allows readers to download and share work as long as they credit the original creator, do not change the material in any way, and do not use it commercially.
Article Processing Charges
The Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering does not charge APC fees for the reviewing and publication of submitted research papers.Archiving of Published Papers
Apart from inhouse archiving of published editions of the journal by SAICE, published papers are formally archived via the Portico system by SciELO.