Computer & Communications Security Abstracts

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Computer &
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About Computer & Communications Security Abstracts
Computer & Communications Security Abstracts (CCSA) is a leading Abstracting and Indexing service,
providing access to the latest computer & communications security knowledge. Only the world’s best
journals and periodicals are selected for inclusion in the database, resulting in a coverage list of around
100 of the most celebrated computer & communications security titles. The Accreditation board approves
and signs off the primary journal coverage list on a yearly basis.
CCSA covers all major subject areas including: biometric identification techniques; cryptography;
electronic commerce security; intrusion detection; malicious software; network security and trusted third
parties. CCSA does not claim to be the biggest, but the most selective: only periodicals of the highest
order are included in the database.
With CCSA, subscribers have access to the world’s best computer security abstracts and a search
engine that is tailor-made to enable time-pressed researchers, students and business executives to
locate the articles that best meet their requirements. The ease and speed of access and the advanced
yet easy-to-use search facility make this collection an invaluable abstracting and indexing service.
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Accreditation by Computer & Communications Security Abstracts
International Database
Who we are
Computer & Communications Security Abstracts (CCSA) seeks to disseminate information about the best
computer security literature in the world. Computer & Communications Security Abstracts has been
meeting the needs of security information professionals since 1992. Every year our editorial teams
assess journals and periodicals from all over the world in order that the finest literature can be brought to
the attention of our global customer base.
The Accredited Journal List
The CCSA accreditation process is both rigorous and effective. A composite list has been created
comprising the journal holdings of computing centres of excellence renowned for their research acumen
and ability to generate and share best practice. For example, Cambridge University and the Information
Security Group of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London are among those which have
contributed. The Accreditation Board, which comprises a group of internationally known experts in the
field of security, also considers recommendations from users, together with their own experiences and
expertise.
Although we receive constant requests from publishers striving to have their publications accepted on to
our coverage list, the vast majority are rejected as not meeting our high standards. Thus, only the world’s
very best journals and periodicals are selected, resulting in a coverage list of around 100 of the most
celebrated Computer & Communications security titles. The Accreditation Board then approves and signs
off the primary journal coverage list on a yearly basis.
Members of the Accreditation Board are recognized experts in their fields. For example, our expert in the
field of cryptographic algorithms and protocols is Professor Bart Preneel, and Professor Alfred Menezes
specializes in practice-oriented provable security.
The Accreditation Board:
Professor Dieter Gollmann Technische Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Professor Alfred Menezes Department of Combinatorics and Optimization,
University of Waterloo, Canada
Professor Bart Preneel Department of Electrical Engineering-ESAT/COSIC,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater UCL Crypto-Group, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Professor Steve Schneider Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK
Stafford Tavares Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Queen’s University, Canada
Professor Vijay Varadharajan Microsoft Chair and Professor of Computing,
Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia
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Building your brand
Visibly celebrating your success
In the competitive world of publishing, the instantly recognized title is usually the one that gains the sale.
Put simply, if the quality of your content is not obvious, then you are losing out. CCSA provides a
recognized seal of approval that customers trust; its independence and attention to detail are known by
researchers, practitioners and librarians around the world.
Computer & Communications Security Abstracts Accredited Journals
You are able to use the Accredited Journal Badge as soon as you have been identified by
the Accreditation Board as being outstanding and have signed your agreement with us. We
only approach those journals that are recognized as being excellent in their field of
computing and communications security research and we reject all other journal content.
The badge separates you from the rest as being part of a service that covers only the best
100 computer security journals in the world. Publishers of journals and periodicals included
in the CCSA database use it on the journal, on their promotional materials and on their website.
To collect this badge, contact Juliet Harrison: jharrison@emeraldinsight.com
We also have more information about the accreditation process at:
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/abstracts/about_lists.htm
How publishers benefit
As a publisher, inclusion in the CCSA service is a major boost to both sales and quality of content. On
the sales and marketing side, tangible benefits include a huge boost to brand awareness, combined with
the ability to sell licensed copies of articles within your target market – a method infinitely superior to the
hit-and-miss effect of sample copies.
How editors benefit
Inclusion in the CCSA Accredited List means increased brand awareness for your journal and, for
discerning authors, the knowledge that their paper will be widely disseminated and read by those who
matter.
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Global dissemination of knowledge
Bringing the world to your periodical
Citation indexes, with all their inherent assumptions, are often the way in which the success of a journal
is measured. If your title is not cited frequently enough, authors are reluctant to write for it. For journal
publishers, including controlled circulation titles, being read is what matters. Inclusion in CCSA brings the
world to your periodical. This section explains how.
Ensuring that as many people as possible gain exposure to your journal
A core value of the CCSA is that great attention is given to ensuring that only the best security journals
are included. Having established this fact, we actively promote the list. The message being given to users
and potential users is that these titles are the best in the world. This message is disseminated widely,
using a tested marketing mix that draws on more than 40 years of accumulated experience.
Promotional mix
Emerald has long-standing, successful relationships with the major library agents around the world and
other effective third parties. This distribution network has been built up over many years, with the CCSA
relationship being highly prized. CCSA appears in advertising, agent and subject-specific brochures.
Building awareness worldwide
A key benefit of inclusion within CCSA has to be the massive boost it gives to awareness of your brand.
Abstracts show-case individual articles, with full bibliographic details clearly indicating the source of the
material. Full-text articles can then be ordered via our document delivery partners. If a publisher is a
member of CrossRef, articles will be available online via DOI linking: if the user does not have a
subscription to your periodical, the content can be purchased on a pay-per-view basis. If you prefer not to
permit pay-per-view of your individual articles, users will not be permitted access.
Full-text articles also may be available either online or in hard copy from Infotrieve. This again will
depend on the publisher’s own agreement with Infotrieve. Royalty payments accrue for publishers every
time a full-text article is downloaded, or a licensed photocopy is dispatched. If you do not have a direct
agreement with Infotrieve, royalty payments will be made to you via the US Copyright Clearance Center
or the UK Copyright Licensing Agency.
Our liberal network licence means that academic institutions can provide access to students, both walk-in
and campus, professors at their desktops and even distance learners.
Multinational and transnational organizations can have the facility to network the product to use across
branches and between countries. Access is no longer an issue in getting to know your journal.
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The Computer & Communications Security Abstracts Database
Publishers’ Charter
This is your charter. You should have high expectations of us. Signing the Charter welcomes you to the
CCSA Accredited List of Publishers.
Our promise to you:
1. CCSA agrees that each abstract shall appear under a full citation to the journal.
2. The rights to be a CCSA Accredited journal, including use of the logo in your periodical, your website
and promotional literature.
3. CCSA will make every reasonable effort to build awareness of your title, listing it within accredited
journal coverage lists, making bibliographic and article abstract details available on subscription
agents’ databases.
4. Royalty payments for access to full-text articles are managed by our document delivery partners. You
will have agreed the royalty per article separately with your preferred document delivery provider.
5. Your full text articles will only be available via the method that you have agreed with our document
delivery partners. Therefore, if you do not hold an electronic pay-per-view agreement with them, then
your articles will not be made available in this way.
6. A named contact person dedicated to providing you with efficient and courteous service.
7. Inclusion within the database is non-exclusive. You are free to make the commercial decisions that
are right for you.
What we need from you
In return for our Charter pledges, we need two actions from you:
1. That you make available a complimentary subscription to our classificatory team, with issues
dispatched in a timely manner after publication.
2. That we be kept up to date with any changes affecting titles on the Accredited List – name changes,
mergers, contact details and so on.
What to do next
Simply sign the enclosed agreement forms, returning one copy to us and retaining one copy for yourself.
This form states that you have read and agree to the terms of the Publishers’ Charter. If you would like to
discuss any matters relating to the Charter, please feel free to contact us.
To discuss your preferred arrangement contact:
Juliet Harrison
Executive Editor
Howard House
Wagon Lane
Bingley BD16 1WA
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1274 785087
Fax: +44 (0)1274 785201
E-mail: jharrison@emeraldinsight.com
www.emeraldinsight.com/abstracts
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CCSA Accredited Journal list
ACM Computing Surveys
ACM Trans on Computer Systems
ACM Transactions on Information and
System Security
ACM Trans on Information Systems
ACM Trans on Programming
Languages and Systems
ACM Trans on Software Engineering
and Methodology
Ad Hoc Networks
Advances in Mathematics of
Communications
Applicable Algebra in Engineering:
Communication and Computing
Bell Labs Technical Journal
BT Technology Journal
Communications of the ACM
Complexity
Computer Communication Review
Computer Communications
Computer Fraud & Security
Computer Journal, The
Computer Law and Security Review
Computer Networks
Computers & Security
Cryptologia
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Electronic Commerce Research
Electronics Letters
Ethics and Information Technology
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal
Processing
EURASIP Journal on Information
Security
Formal Methods in System Design
IET Communications
IET Computers and Digital Techniques
IET Information Security
IET Software
IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Computer Magazine
IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in
Communications
IEEE Network
IEEE Pervasive Computing
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Trans. on Communications
IEEE Trans. on Computers
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and
Secure Computing
IEEE Trans. on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Mobile
Computing
IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing
IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology
IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications
IEEE Wireless Communications
Information & Communications
Technology Law
Information and Computation
Information Management & Computer
Security
Information Processing Letters
Information Security
Information Security Technical Report
Information Systems Management
Information Systems Security
Intelligence & National Security
International Journal of Information
Security
Internet Research
Journal of the ACM
Journal of Algorithms
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series
A
Journal of Computer Security
Journal of Computer and System
Sciences
Journal of Cryptology
Journal of Information Technology
Journal of Information Warfare
Journal of Internet Banking and
Commerce
Journal of Network and Computer
Applications
Journal of Research and Practice in
Information Technology
Journal of Symbolic Computation
Mathematics of Computation
Mobile Networks and Applications
Network Security
Operating Systems Review
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition Letters
Proceedings of the IEEE
Random Structures and Algorithms
SIAM Journal on Computing
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Software Engineering Notes
Telecommunication Systems
Theoretical Computer Science
Wireless Networks
World Wide Web: Internet and Web
Information Systems Journal
Accredited Conferences
ACISP: Australasian Conference on
Information Security and Privacy
ACSAC - Annual Computer Security
Applications Conference
Asiacrypt
CCS: ACM Conference on Computer
and Communications Security
CHES: Workshop on Cryptographic
Hardware and Embedded Systems
Cirencester: Cryptography and Coding
IMA International Conference
Crypto
CSFW: Computer Security
Foundations Workshop
ECC - Workshop on Elliptic Curve
Cryptography
e-SMART
ESORICS: annual European
Symposium on Research in Computer
Security
Eurocrypt
Financial Cryptography
FOCS: IEEE Annual Symposium on
Foundations of Computer Science
FSE: International Workshop on Fast
Software Encryption
GLOBECOM: IEEE Global
Telecommunications Conference
ICDCS: IEEE International Conference
on Distributed Computing Systems
ICICS: Information and
Communications Security
ICISC: Information Security and
Cryptology
IEEE Symposium on Security and
Privacy
IFIP: International Information Security
Conference (IFIP)
Indocrypt
INFOCOM: IEEE Conference on
Computer Communications
ISIT - IEEE International Symposium
on Information Theory
ISOC: Internet Society Symposium on
Network and Distributed System
Security
ISSE: Information Security Solutions
Europe
LCN: IEEE Annual Conference on
Local Computer Networks
NDSS: Network and Distributed
Systems Security Symposium
NSP: New Security Paradigms
Workshop
Provable Security Conference
PKC: International Workshop on
Practice and Theory in Public-Key
Cryptography, Japan
RAID - International Symposium on
Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
RSA Security: Progress in Cryptology
(The Cryptographers' Track at RSA)
SAC: Workshop on Selected Areas in
Cryptography
SREIS - Symposium on Requirements
Engineering for Information Security
STACS - Annual Symposium on
Theoretical Aspects of Computer
Science
STOC - ACM Annual Symposium on
Theory of Computing
USENIX Security Symposium
WETICE - IEEE International
Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
Infrastructure for Collaborative
Enterprises
WISA - International Workshop on
Information Security Applications
Workshop on Information Hiding

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