<div>I'm willing to review articles.</div><div><br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Jameson Quinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jameson.quinn@gmail.com" target="_blank">jameson.quinn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This idea seems to have decent support in the community. I think we should be proceeding.<br>
<div><br></div><div>However, we are still a long way from being able to pop the champagne. <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/OJS_Project_Report_Shapiro.pdf" target="_blank">This article</a> 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:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Week 1 </div><div><div><ul><li>Decision to proceed with journal, including budget and resource approvals. </li><li>Determine who will fill the roles of editor (& backup), managing editor/assistant to the editor (& backup), editorial board. </li>
<li>Agree on statement of purpose for the journal, and theme for first issue if desired. </li></ul></div><div>Week 2 - 3 </div><div><ul><li>Establish agreement with SFU for hosting service. </li><li>Conduct training for editor and managing editor and their backups. </li>
</ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Week 3 </div><div><ul><li>Review “Design Options” and agree on approach to be adopted for the journal for each of these options. </li><li>Identify possible contributors to 1st issue of the journal and contact them to encourage contributions. </li>
</ul></div><div>Week 4 </div><div><ul><li>Identify contractors to perform copy editor, proofer and layout functions. </li><li>Complete initial set-up of the journal web-site with no articles. </li></ul></div>Week 5 <div>
<ul><li>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. </li></ul>Week 6 - 7 <br><ul><li>Pilot process with dummy articles. </li>
</ul></div><div><br>Week 8 </div><div><ul><li>Send out broadly to the education community an announcement of the journal, theme of 1st issue if appropriate, request for contributions, link to journal. </li>
</ul></div><div>Week 9 </div><div><ul><li>Editorial board to make decision regarding possible collaboration opportunities identified in this report. </li></ul><div>So, for our equivalent of "week 1" we need:</div>
</div></div><div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>Backup: I'd like to have at least 1 backup for each of the above. Can be the same person.</div><div>Webmaster and backup: Discussion of this is ongoing.</div><div>"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.</div>
<div>Title, statement of purpose: Might be time to start to talk about these.</div><div><br></div><div>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, <b>now is the time to speak</b>.</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Jameson</div>
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