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• Value to Community identified in emails/telecon notes:
  • important policy magazine for the Union and for a broad segment of membership
  • premier journal for space weather
  • the journal is the only society sponsored publication for operational space weather research
  • quarterly is key for communicating ideas to people with limited science background

• Primary Challenges identified in emails/telecon notes:
  • access statistics appear low; one of least accessed AGU journals
  • cost, including the quarterly, is high relative to other journals

• Contributing Challenges identified in emails/telecon notes:
  • 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.
  • authors of non-technical articles may not continue to write for the journal/quarterly if their writings will no longer reach the decision makers and policy folks that the quarterly has reached in the past.

• 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

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Discussion

• Values voiced as wanting to preserve:
  • expand awareness of SWJ/SWQ as the premier policy magazine for Space Weather
  • 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

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• Questions (summarized from emails and 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? Should the content expand to highlight related content published in other journals?
  • 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? 
  • How to best balance the business model for the quarterly?  What should be the proportion of print versus electronic access?  Should we renew sponsored development and printing?  How do the necessary writing professionals get their support?
  • During this time of transition, how can we best support a continuous stream of the highest quality space weather research papers AND the important news that our stakeholders need to have presented to them? Can we put some attention on the journal/quarterly to better aid the editors in meeting the current production schedule and to smoothly transition into a new production environment?

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