Editorial

Starting from issue number 1/2012, the Associazione Italiana di Ingegneria Agraria (AIIA) has assigned to PAGEPress the Open Access publication of the Journal of Agricultural Engineering (JAE). With the new year, the JAE would like to enhance its accreditation profile and respond to the growing demand from authors for their published papers to be indexed and distributed in the main online directories. To increase the journal’s image in a wider international context, together with the Associate editors Paolo Balsari, Claudio Gandolfi, and Giacomo Scarascia-Mugnozza, the JAE’s Editorial Board has been considerably enlarged, and we are asking our colleagues who have accepted the invitation to take on this role to promote the journal in their own particular field of interest. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity, together with the president of the AIIA, to thank those colleagues who have contributed to the peer-review process over the years.