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Telecon Agenda

Toll Free Number: 866-757-4161
Toll Number for International: 1-517-968-4405
Participant passcode: 5807653
If you are outside the US, you may want to refer to this pdf for specific country information re accessing these telecon lines.

Purpose of the Telecon:  Discussion where all can voice opinions that help identify key issues and form a consensus view on how to move forward.

Top-Level Points for Discussion / Is there agreement that:

  • There is a need for both a Space Weather Journal (SWJ) and a Space Weather Quarterly (SWQ)?
  • Will AGU accept in their business plan, that because the journal serves AGU, its members, and society in policy areas as well as contributing to science research, that at least temporarily, both the SWJ and the SWQ will continue while changes are evaluated (establishing a proper editorial transition process, possible new publishing formats, level of support from AGU staff, etc.). Is this something we want to recommend? How long to allow for this process?
  • Regarding immediate issues, what happens on January 1? Can we entice Lou to stay on to keep the journal/quarterly progressing smoothly during this period? What do the advisory committees recommend? What is the AGU planning? How do we work together?
  • Regarding the new possibilities with Wiley (e.g. special collections etc.), what do we need to do to understand these better and perhaps see demos from comparable products to see how they would serve SWJ subscribers. Do the new Wiley capabilities really solve the key issues related to the SWJ and SWQ?  It will be essential to have an iterative development process between the developers and the consumers.





To prepare for the telecon, you may want to review/add to the information already in circulation

  • see meeting and other notes to the right -->
  • see the attempt to summarize the notes, emails, etc.
  • 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, some are indeed dead)
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MEETING/TELECON INFO

TELECON #1:

Thurs, Nov 21 at 3pm Eastern
Thurs, Nov 21 at 9pm Frankfurt
Thurs, Nov 21 at 8pm London
Thurs, Nov 21 at 2pm Central
Thurs, Nov 21 at 1pm Mountain
Thurs, Nov 21 at 12noon Pacific
Thurs, Nov 21 at 10am Honolulu
Thurs, Nov 21 at 5am Tokyo (zzzz!)

TELECON #2:

Mon, Dec 2 at 2pm Eastern
Mon, Dec 2 at 8pm Frankfurt
Mon, Dec 2 at 7pm London
Mon, Dec 2 at 1pm Central
Mon, Dec 2 at 12noon Mountain
Mon, Dec 2 at 11am Pacific
Mon, Dec 2 at 9am Honolulu
Mon, Dec 2 at 4am Tokyo (zzzz!)

Space Weather Board Luncheon:

Tues, Dec 10 at 12:30-1:30 Pacific
at the Marriott

TELECON #Kickoff:

Wed, Oct 23 at 11am Eastern
Meeting Notes
Thoughtful input from Wilkinson

Journal Strategy Assessment:

Summer 2013?
Space Weather Assessment / Strategic Plan
Supplement to Assessment / Plan

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Suggested for Discussion:

  • Values/directions voiced as wanting to preserve? (feel free to add/edit the list)
    • 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

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Summary of points made in various emails/notes:

  • *Value to Community identified in emails/telecon notes:
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    • 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:
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    • 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:
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    • 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:
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    • 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 emails and meeting notes):
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    • 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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