[Journal] FOSS4G 2011 Special Edition

[Daniel Ames]

Another common open access journal model is to charge publishers a page
charge to publish their paper. This works for academic papers since faculty
and researchers have an incentive (and often a budget) to publish their
work.

Tyler, If we could publish 6 times per year and include 10 research papers
in each edition, and if we assume 10 pages per paper so 100 pages of
research papers... and if we charge $25/page then there's $15000 per year
that could supplement someone to manage the journal...

Of course that would mean a real commitment to authors for fast turn around
etc. Also we'd want to try to get the journal to be ISI Indexed and have
it's impact factor calculated etc. But if someone was getting $15K per year
just to manage the journal then they could presumably work to make these
things happen.

- Dan

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Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
dan.ames at isu.edu
geology.isu.edu
www.mapwindow.org



On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Sunburned Surveyor <
sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know there has been a lag getting the annual report published
> because my own time to volunteer is limited. I certainly think there
> would be some benefit to having funds to pay for at least some work on
> the journal.
>
> There are a number of things that would likely need to be done for
> this to happen. We'd have to get the boards approval, of course. I
> also think we'd need an advertising policy of some sort.
>
> As far as the annual report goes, I'm committed to getting that done
> before the end of the year. We'll round up whatever chapter and
> project reports we can before the end of the month, and then we'll
> start working on our rough draft. We can take the month of October to
> work on any regular or peer review articles that will be included in
> the annual report issue.
>
> As soon as we are finished it we should start work on the annual
> report for 2011. :]
>
> Perhaps this is a good time to assess our current volunteer resources
> and take a realistic look at what we can accomplish. Ultimately the
> Journal is being put together by volunteers and as with many things in
> the open source world the major contributors will have the greatest
> influence on the outcome.
>
> While we work out the challenges to paid help with the journal,
> perhaps we should talk about better defining some of the roles and
> responsibilities of the Journal team. This is just a suggestion.
>
> At a minimum, I can see the team being made up of the following positions:
>
> - Editor: Oversees the basic operations of the journal. This includes
> gathering/soliciting content, ensuring review and editing of
> individual articles is complete, and making sure the post production
> process runs smoothly.
> - Assistant Editor: Assists with the editor duties as needed.
> - Peer Review Articles Editor: Coordinates peer review of peer review
> articles and deals with issues surrounding peer review standards.
> - Post Production Lead: Coordinates the post production of the Journal
> after the reviewed and edited content has been made available. This
> currently includes converting the articles to LaTex and producing a
> PDF.
>
> I can also see us having the additional positions:
> - Graphics Production Editor
> - Advertising Coordinator
>
> I'll be around to assist with the Journal editing for the foreseeable
> future. However,  it is certainly more work than I have time for on my
> own. People may get frustrated with the slow pace of things under my
> watch. On the other hand, if there is someone else who'd like to take
> a stab at helping as editor or assistant editor, I'd be glad to jump
> into another part of the process. I'd really like to tinker around
> with producing the journal in EPUB and HTML for example.
>
> I'm curious what the other people who are working (or have worked) on
> the Journal think.
>
> Landon
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Tyler Mitchell <tmitchell at osgeo.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi all Journal friends,
> >
> > As you have probably already saw, I will no longer have a job with OSGeo
> in two months.
> > It doesn't mean I will run away but, as you can imagine, being surprised
> by job loss
> > means you cannot speculate on your time availability in the near future.
> >
> > I may have time to help with the current annual report if needed, but for
> the next
> > edition I'm not so sure.  I'm in the process of handing off my primary
> responsibilities
> > over to the OSGeo board, though I don't expect directors will be
> available to help
> > fill in on my journal tasks since it was often out of scope for my
> position.
> >
> > So, we should talk about finding the smoothest way
> > through this change, because we had committed to publish a handful of
> paper
> > proceedings from the FOSS4G 2011 event.  Papers will be reviewed and
> > submitted by end of year and require a 1-3 month turnaround.  We can even
> > required them to be submitted in latex so conversion requirements are
> minimal.
> >
> > Any thoughts?  I'm happy to pass the reigns or remain officially until I
> know
> > that I absolutely cannot help - either way works for me, I just don't
> want to be a
> > bottleneck.
> >
> > This is one of my most
> > personal special projects so it's hard to even think of stepping back
> more than I
> > already have due to priorities I had at the time.
> >
> > Perhaps it's time to consider a topic several of you have brought up
> before: advertising
> > and sponsorship?  If I was able to acquire some funding to help fund my
> editing
> > position, would anyone be opposed to having these used in the Journal.
>  I'm not
> > sure I'll ultimately need it, but thought I'd check to see what you
> thought.  In the last
> > issue we had a great contractor also help and I think that eased the pain
> for all
> > of us.  Having some cash for this might help on a few fronts.
> >
> > That's not be all and end all of brainstorming but thought I'd start the
> ball rolling.
> > Share your thoughts on next steps :)
> >
> > Best wishes and officially, thanks for all the hard work going into the
> project
> > historically and presently!  It's been a pleasure working with you.
> >
> > Tyler
> >
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