[EM] Amateur peer-reviewed "journal" for voting methods, criteria, and compliances?

[Andy Jennings]

I'm willing to review articles.



On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com>wrote:

> This idea seems to have decent support in the community. I think we should
> be proceeding.
>
> However, we are still a long way from being able to pop the champagne. This
> article <http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/OJS_Project_Report_Shapiro.pdf> provides
> a basic roadmap for starting a journal. This roadmap is clearly not suited
> to our particular case in all details, but it's still worth a read. In
> particular, it has a schedule of startup tasks:
>
> Week 1
>
>    - Decision to proceed with journal, including budget and resource
>    approvals.
>    - Determine who will fill the roles of editor (& backup), managing
>    editor/assistant to the editor (& backup), editorial board.
>    - Agree on statement of purpose for the journal, and theme for first
>    issue if desired.
>
> Week 2 - 3
>
>    - Establish agreement with SFU for hosting service.
>    - Conduct training for editor and managing editor and their backups.
>
>
>
> Week 3
>
>    - Review “Design Options” and agree on approach to be adopted for the
>    journal for each of these options.
>    - Identify possible contributors to 1st issue of the journal
>    and contact them to encourage contributions.
>
> Week 4
>
>    - Identify contractors to perform copy editor, proofer and layout
>    functions.
>    - Complete initial set-up of the journal web-site with no articles.
>
> Week 5
>
>    - Conduct training for editorial board (regarding their roles
>    as reviewers), and, if necessary, the contractors who will be used for copy
>    editing, proofing and layout functions.
>
> Week 6 - 7
>
>    - Pilot process with dummy articles.
>
>
> Week 8
>
>    - Send out broadly to the education community an announcement of the
>    journal, theme of 1st issue if appropriate, request for contributions, link
>    to journal.
>
> Week 9
>
>    - Editorial board to make decision regarding possible collaboration
>    opportunities identified in this report.
>
> So, for our equivalent of "week 1" we need:
> Managing editor: The person who makes sure the whole thing happens,
> including almost all the bullet points above. I'd happily put my self
> forward, but honestly if anyone else wants to take up this burden I won't
> stand in your way. Roughly one day a week of commitment.
> Editor: Responsible for the process of peer review itself - getting the
> peer reviewers assigned, making sure they do their work, scheduling
> articles for which issue they are targeted for, etc. Ideally, adademic
> experience would help here. Roughly 3 days a month of commitment.
> Backup: I'd like to have at least 1 backup for each of the above. Can be
> the same person.
> Webmaster and backup: Discussion of this is ongoing.
> "editorial board": Serve as reviewers, help with publicity. Probably
> around 1-2 days a month of commitment. We have 2 or 3 people who have sorta
> signed on for this level of involvement, but let's try to get that up to at
> least 7 formal offers.
> Title, statement of purpose: Might be time to start to talk about these.
>
> I think a reasonable goal is to be done with the above by the 22nd of this
> month,  2 and a half weeks from now. If we can't pull that together, I
> don't see how we can imagine that we'll manage to have a journal. That
> means, if you were thinking of volunteering for any of the above, *now is
> the time to speak*.
>
> Jameson
>
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