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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
Primary Challenges identified:
- Access statistics appear low; one of least 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.
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
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Space Weather Journal:
From the First Issue: The primary goal of Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications is to promote communication among scientists, engineers, technicians, science administrators, and space weather policy makers in a way that leads to continuous improvement in the nation's ability to mitigate space environment hazards to technical systems on the ground and in space.
Currently on the website: Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications is an online publication devoted to theemerging field of space weather and its impact on technical systems, including telecommunications, electric power, and satellite navigation.
Space Weather is a research resource that also provides news and information for space weather professionals. Space Weather publishes:
- peer-reviewed articles presenting the latest engineering and science research in the field, including studies of the response of technical systems to specific space weather events,predictions of detrimental space weather impacts, and effects of natural radiation on aerospace systems;
- news and feature articles providing up-to-date coverage ofgovernment agency initiatives worldwide and space weather activities of the commercial sector;
- letters and opinion articles offering an exchange of ideas; and
- editorial comments on current issues facing the community. Space Weather is published by the American Geophysical Union and is co-sponsored by the International Space Environment Service (ISES). A digest of the online publication, Space Weather Quarterly (ISSN 1539-4964), is distributed four times a year free of charge.
Space Weather Quarterly:
From the first Issue: Space Weather Quarterly is a digest of selected articles published online in Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications.
A copy (or derivative) of the original press release (can't find the original).
Currently on the website: Space Weather Quarterly is a free, subscription-based print publication devoted to the impacts of space weather on technical systems, including telecommunications, electric power, radiation effects on space electronics, and satellite navigation. Space Weather Quarterly is a digest published by the American Geophysical Union that supports the journal, Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications, which addresses the applications of space research findings and results to practical problems that face numerous government and industry entities that design and operate technical systems that are known to be influenced and affected by processes in the solar-terrestrial environment. Space Weather also publishes models of various solar system processes, as well as more integrated models, that are addressed to predictions and forecasts of solar and geomagnetic disturbances that impact technical systems.
The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (SWSC) is an international multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open access journal which publishes papers on all aspects of space weather and space climate from a broad range of scientific and technical fields including solar physics, space plasma physics, aeronomy, planetology, radio science, geophysics, biology, medicine, astronautics, aeronautics, electrical engineering, meteorology, climatology, mathematics, economy, informatics. An online, open access electronic journal published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis Cedex, France. Five paper and an editorial were published in 2011; 22 papers were published in 2012; and 30 papers and an editorial have been published thus far in 2013.
One person suggested that if the Space Weather Journal was no longer available or combined so as to diffuse its identity, then JSWSC would become their journal of choice for operational space weather articles.