THis is just a suggestion, but if you can muster up the volunteers you can continue the journal for very little. YOu simply set up the page formatting requirements and tell the authors to do it. Then post on a website. We have been running Herpetological Conservation and Biology as an upstart journal with little funding needed. The layouts and everything are done by various editors and although the general layouts are currently done by authors, I expect us to move much of this onto the authors' shoulders as it really is not that hard.
Check us out..http://www.herpconbio.org On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Charlene D'Avanzo<[email protected]> wrote: > For 5 years Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) has been > supported by several NSF grants to me and Bruce Grant. As many ecology > faculty know, TIEE is a peer reviewed publication of the ESA designed to > help ecologists teach well; it also supports college ecology Scholarship of > Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Last year the TIEE editors submitted a request > to the ESA Governing Board for ESA to assume publication of TIEE as a > once-a-year electronic journal. Twice the Governing Board sent this request > to ESA's Publication Committee, which was very impressed by TIEE's quality > and depth. Twice this committee strongly recommended that the Board vote to > move forward with TIEE as an electronic ecology education journal, in part > because the fairly small cost (about 20% of the Education Coordinator's > salary) would be so well spent. I am very sad to report that in May the ESA > Governing Board decided not to accept this committee's recommendation to > publish TIEE in the foreseeable future. Therefore, we will no longer be > accepting submissions for TIEE. > > A main reason why TIEE is so exceptional is because it is peer reviewed. > Although the V.P. for Education. Meg Lowman, has no written outcome of the > meeting, I understand that the Board generally did not view peer review as > necessary for ecology education resources like TIEE. Many people, including > grad students, have been able to use TIEE as a SoTL venue because it is peer > reviewed. For education journals published by all the main professional > biology societies peer review insures the publication's excellence - just > as it does for scientific journals. > This summer I reviewed education proposals for NSF. One sad irony of TIEE's > demise is that nearly every ecology proposal I read referred to TIEE. At > last weeks AAAS "Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education" > meeting, college biology teaching informed by research, assessment, and > knowledge about 'how people learn' was seen as vital for the future of > biology education. This is what TIEE embodies. > > Those of you unfamiliar with TIEE can go to tiee.ecoed.net to see what it > is. There you will find Experiments for lab, Issues for use in lecture, > genuine (e.g. LTER) Data Sets, and research papers written by about 75 > authors and published in 6 volumes since 2004. All are peer reviewed and are > based on contemporary, researched-based understanding about the most > effective teaching practices. > > > -- > > > Charlene D'Avanzo > Professor of Ecology & > Director, Center for Learning > Hampshire College > > Homepage: http://helios.hampshire.edu/~cdNS/ > TIEE: http://tiee.ecoed.net/ > > ************************************ > -- Malcolm L. McCallum Associate Professor of Biology Texas A&M University-Texarkana Editor, Herpetological Conservation and Biology http://www.herpconbio.org http://www.twitter.com/herpconbio Fall Teaching Schedule & Office Hours: Landscape Ecology: T,R 10-11:40 pm Environmental Physiology: MW 1-2:40 pm Seminar: T 2:30-3:30pm Genetics: M 6-10pm Office Hours: M 3-6, T: 12-2, W: 3-4 1880's: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert 1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution. 2000: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction MAY help restore populations. 2022: Soylent Green is People! Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
