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• Values/directions voiced as wanting to preserve? (feel free to add/edit the list)
  • further establish SWJ/SWQ as the premier policy magazine for the 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 communication tool

• Current Editorial Focus:
  • Updates to the "about" text on the web site for the Space Weather Journal - in final editing and approval.
  • Q4 2013 SW Quarterly - Editor and AGU currently working on this
  • special section, nearly completed, devoted to the CRATeR mission and the radiation environment around the Moon
  • Updates to the "about" text on the web site for the Space Weather Journal - in final editing and approval.
  • 10th (or 11th) year anniversary

• Initiatives suggested through the flurry of emails (feel free to add/edit the list):
  • 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
    • explore what a partnership with AMS and/or other societies would mean, what aspects would be enhanced or diluted.
    • renewed visibility on ISIS website
    • engage AGU's new director of public affairs, Lexi Shultz, in our discussions for the purpose of advising what will be most beneficial to agency/government stakeholders, among other topics. Her long experience as a gov't liason and legal advisor for UCS will be beneficial to the discussions.

• Near-term publication issues to address:
  • Establish distribution priorities for Quarterly (print vs electronic), update distribution list.
  • Prototype layout of Quarterly via standard/custom Wiley Special Section templates.
  • Proposal to NSF and NASA re distribution of Quarterly and Writer Support.
  • Form Editorial Search Committee, write Terms of Reference for Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board

• Mid-term issues:
  • Access/Citation Rate:
    • increase the number
    Access/Citation Rate:
    • increase the number of reviews among the journal papers
    • continue/expand the Editor's Choice column
    • series of articles on the operational models
    • 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
    • research papers to SWJ
    • work with other editors for greater cross-referencing of relevant papers via new WWW site capabilities
  • Formulate plan for broader electronic access of journal/quarterly.
  • Capture history of the journal and quarterly in accessible place.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 the range of journal and quarterly business cases that could be suggested.  .

• Longer-term issues:
  • Explore/expand partnerships: AMS, AIAA, etc.
  • How to assess the full "impact" of the journal, when the access/citation stats don't tell the full story.
  • What is the desired balance between pursue "sponsored" support for the journal or quarterly or both?

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