I'm willing to review articles.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Jameson Quinn <[email protected]>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 > > ---- > Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info > >
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