<div dir="auto">Dear all<div dir="auto">It is a good idea and I can help at least as a reviewer. but regarding open access publication for exapmle normally its cost is too much for developing contries (E.g Iran) academic scholars. So maybe getting in to account good discounts for geo4all members could be very helpful.</div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto">Masoud</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2017 11:31 PM, <<a href="mailto:geoforall-request@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall-request@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send GeoForAll mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High<br>
impact OSGeo Journal (Christian Willmes)<br>
2. Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for creating a High<br>
impact OSGeo Journal (Christian Willmes)<br>
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 22:37:03 +0100<br>
From: Christian Willmes <<a href="mailto:c.willmes@uni-koeln.de">c.willmes@uni-koeln.de</a>><br>
To: Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.<wbr>uk</a>>,<br>
"<a href="mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall@lists.osgeo.org</a>>,<br>
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Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for<br>
creating a High impact OSGeo Journal<br>
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Dear Suchith,<br>
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this is a great initiative, the OSGeo Journal List is<br>
"<a href="mailto:newsletter@lists.osgeo.org">newsletter@lists.osgeo.org</a>".<br>
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I aimed for improving the Journal some year(s) ago, but at this time the<br>
guys running the journal were not in favor of this ideas.<br>
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See this thread:<br>
<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-October/001188.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/newsletter/2015-<wbr>October/001188.html</a><br>
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<br>
And this one:<br>
<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2015-November/001205.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/newsletter/2015-<wbr>November/001205.html</a><br>
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(I recommend to also read also the answers to these mails in the archives.)<br>
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Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently<br>
stepped down.<br>
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<br>
See: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/newsletter/2017-<wbr>October/001245.html</a><br>
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<br>
No one answered his mail until now, so effectively this committee is<br>
without a Chair currently...<br>
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The Journal is found here: <a href="https://journal.osgeo.org/index.php/journal" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://journal.osgeo.org/<wbr>index.php/journal</a><br>
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And official information is found here: <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/journal" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/journal</a><br>
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I would support, If you and others would step up to improve the current<br>
situation.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Christian<br>
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Am 15.12.2017 um 14:11 schrieb Suchith Anand:<br>
><br>
> Dear All,<br>
><br>
><br>
> Though we have a OSGeo journal and I thank everyone who worked to<br>
> make this happen, for really making impact , it needs new ideas and<br>
> lot of work to really make it high impact journal. I want to start the<br>
> discussions in the community for ideas for making the OSGeo journal<br>
> a high impact journal that will attract submissions.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I think , timing wise it is good to start planning ideas even if it is<br>
> long term aim. Sharing some lessons learnt from GeoForAll, we<br>
> initially didn’t have webinar platform but we could see its potential<br>
> to spread our message. Initially we relied on external organisations<br>
> for our webinars but as soon as we had a champion (Thank you Rafael)to<br>
> run this for us, we moved to use our own system in place .For our<br>
> newsletters, it was Nikos who lead the initiative and build an<br>
> excellent team to make it happen. So having champions is important.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Similarly, it is now time for us to think ideas of our own high impact<br>
> journal. I have been over a decade volunteering for free as reviewer<br>
> for many GIS journals (like many of our colleagues). I am also<br>
> volunteering for editorial boards of journals. Though I support the<br>
> idea of open access journals , I think it is important the costs of<br>
> publishing in open access journals comes down.I don’t know the answer<br>
> to how to make this possible but I thinkifthere is lot of competition,<br>
> then costs will come down.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Will any one be interested to be Champion for reactivating our OSGeo<br>
> journal and working to create a high impact Open access journal that<br>
> ideally can be free for those publishing. Lot of things need to<br>
> beworked on to make thispossible. The Championsneeds to bring together<br>
> a strong Editorial Board,and maybe have a new name for the journal -<br>
> *International journal for Open Geospatial Science and Applications .***<br>
><br>
><br>
> The Champions should put processes and systems in place . For OSGeo,<br>
> we now have thanks to Charlie and FOSS4G 2017 LOC , we have some basic<br>
> systems that can be use for the review process etc. We have lot of<br>
> good papers submitted every year in the FOSS4GAcademic Tracks (both<br>
> global and regional)who will all benefit but it needs a champion and a<br>
> team to make this possible. I am willing to volunteer as one member<br>
> for the Edition Board for this and review papers for free etc but I am<br>
> unable to lead this because of my focus and work in GeoForAll. So<br>
> anyone is willing tochampion ideas for this, please come forward.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Best wishes,<br>
><br>
><br>
> Suchith<br>
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 22:40:48 +0100<br>
From: Christian Willmes <<a href="mailto:c.willmes@uni-koeln.de">c.willmes@uni-koeln.de</a>><br>
To: Suchith Anand <<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.<wbr>uk</a>>,<br>
"<a href="mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org">geoforall@lists.osgeo.org</a>>,<br>
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Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] Ideas/inputs needed for<br>
creating a High impact OSGeo Journal<br>
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I am sorry the cited wording below was a mistake, caused from<br>
uncarefully re-editing the phrase. This sounds not very nice, I just<br>
wanted to say that Landon Blake stepped down, but not in this wording of<br>
course...<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Christian<br>
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Am 16.12.2017 um 22:37 schrieb Christian Willmes:<br>
><br>
> Though, the Landon Black (OSGeo Journal Chair at this time) recently<br>
> stepped down.<br>
><br>
><br>
> See: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/newsletter/2017-October/001245.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/newsletter/2017-<wbr>October/001245.html</a><br>
><br>
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--<br>
Christian Willmes<br>
AG GIS & Fernerkundung | GIS & RS Group<br>
Geographisches Institut | Institute of Geography<br>
Universität zu Köln | University of Cologne<br>
Tel.: +49 (0)221 470 6234<br>
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