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1. Review of information currently in circulation

• AGU Journal Assessment activities, download input A , download input B
• Kickoff telecon to discuss issues/direction, download notes
• Value to Community identified in emails/telecon notes, see below
• Primary Challenges identified in emails/telecon notes, see below
• Contributing Challenges identified in emails/telecon notes, see below
• AGU/Wiley assets about to be in place that can be leveraged, see below
• Questions for the editorial board (summarized from emails and meeting notes), see below
• Distribution list for the Quarterly (not quite 1500 folks)

2. Discussion items

• Values/directions voiced as wanting to preserve:
  • further establish SWJ/SWQ as the premier policy magazine for space weather-related research disciplines
  • continually increase the number and citation rate of high quality research papers in the journal
  • continually increase visibility inside and outside the research community
  • printed version of quarterly to funding/policy stakeholders
  • broad circulation of quarterly in some form as broad communication tool

• Initiatives suggested through the flurry of emails:
  • Overall:
    • work w/ AGU and SPA leadership to institutionalize SWJ/SWQ as a flagship science policy publication for AGU
    • increase visibility of journal and quarterly beyond its current readership
  • Access/Citation Rate:
    • increase the number of reviews among the journal papers
    • continue/expand the Editor's Choice column
    • work with other editors to encourage redirection of appropriate research papers to SWJ
    • work with other editors for greater cross-referencing of relevant papers via new WWW site capabilities
  • Address Editorial Management Burdens / Production Costs
    • pursue "sponsored" support for professional editing and hardcopy printing costs for Quarterly
    • 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
    • carefully assess the government-mandated open access journal model, the responses to that mandate across the relevant publishers, and the potential benefit/liability to a range of journal and quarterly business cases.

3. Steps Forward in preparation for meeting at AGU

• What further investigation needs to be done to set a strategic direction?
• With the benefit of another telecon, do we have sufficient consensus to draft a white paper for AGU consideration?