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Review of information currently in circulation:

Value to Community:

• premier journal for space weather
• the journal is the only society sponsored publication for operational space weather research
• quarterly is able to communicate ideas to people with limited science background
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Primary Challenges identified:

• Access statistics appear low; one of least access accessed AGU journals
• Cost, including the quarterly, is high relative to other journals

Contributing Challenges identified:

• scientists in the field perhaps either do not have the time to publish the applications of their research or it's not a priority.?
• the quarterly somewhat over-shadows the journal? a casual poll reveals that some scientists aren't aware there are two distinct, but linked publications
• increasing the visibility of the journal can result in increased subscriptions to the Quarterly, which increases costs.
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Values voiced as wanting to preserve:

• continually increase the number and citation rate of high quality research papers in the journal
• continually increase the visibility of the journal and the quarterly inside and outside the research community
• printed version of quarterly to funding stakeholders
• wide circulation of quarterly in some form as broad communication tool for space weather research

Initiatives Suggested through the flurry of emails (please add those not:

• increase the number of reviews among the journal papers
• work with other editors to encourage redirection of appropriate research papers to SWJ
• increase visibility of journal and quarterly beyond its current readership
• examine whether the production methods for the quarterly can economically leverage the Wiley "special collections" features to enable iPad/ebook versions and print-on-demand
• establish subscription rules for print versus electronic versions of the Quarterly and processes for continued maintenance of the distribution list.

AGU/Wiley assets about to be in place that can be leveraged:

• iPad App soon available for SWJ.  Once synced with institutional account, downloads and reading can happen anywhere for 3 months. The app provides an HTML view of the content and can be organized by special section.  One can browse by issue or by just released articles. Note that the quarterly is currently produced in a manner which limits the ability to participate in this rollout of journal aps.
• Wiley is working on redesign for journal WWW sites including flexible "widgets" that can be used to increase cross-referencing between journals and/or special collections.  One new feature will be a "special collections" feature than can pull and organize content across journals and include options for a cover, TOC, and introduction.  These can have guest editors and should be able to be released as individual aps or ebooks.  These can also be printed on-demand.

Questions (summarized from Brant's meeting notes):

• What should the business model for the Space Weather Journal be?  Should move to open access with author fee? How can the commentary pieces be supported under that model? 
• Is there a need for editorial scope change?  How can we better enforce the distinctions to the science research journals such as Radio Science and JGR Space Physics?
• How should the Quarterly evolve?  Is a separate composition/production stream necessary for the Quarterly?  Can we use the production stream created for the new virtual journals to streamline production and enable electronic access?  Should the content expand to highlight related content published in other journals?
• How do we