[Esip-preserve] Fwd: Geoscience Data Journal

Wed Feb 1 07:28:06 EST 2012

Mark et al.,

A couple of related notes. 

1. I asked our Director of the NOAA Central Library (Neal Kaske, cc'd here) if this new journal would appear in the Web of Science.  He said it usually takes a few years, but if that we wrote letters to WoS then they might add it to their list sooner.  So, perhaps ESIP could organize a letter-writing campaign?  I did some searching and found the procedures at the Web of Science for submitting journals for inclusion:

http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/selection/

Reading there, it seems that perhaps the publishers of the journal are expected to request the inclusion, since it seems things like complimentary access to the journal must be provided... not too sure about this.  Maybe someone in ESIP would like to take on the task of figuring this out and leading the charge. (Sorry, that won't be me, but hopefully some of this leg work will help get the ball rolling).

2. Just today, I received an invitation to serve on the Editorial Board of something called Datasets Papers in Atmospheric Sciences. I don't think that is any sort of exclusive invitation since they seem to be trying to have a large number of people on this board, so many of you may have also received this invitation. I will copy and paste all the info below, but here is the link to the journal page:  http://www.datasets.com/journals/as/   It is open access, costs $300 to publish a paper, and is supposed to have a 4 week turn around time. 

Ken

Dear Dr. Casey,

My name is Reem Mounib and I am a Journal Developer for the Hindawi Publishing Corporation. We are in the process of launching a new peer-reviewed, open access journal titled Dataset Papers in Atmospheric Sciences, which will publish Dataset Papers in all areas of atmospheric sciences research, and I am writing to invite you to join the Editorial Board of this new journal. 

Dataset Papers in Atmospheric Sciences is part of a new journal platform that Hindawi is developing called Datasets International (http://www.datasets.com). The main objective of Datasets International is to help researchers in all academic disciplines archive, document, and distribute the datasets produced in their research to the entire academic community. In addition to publishing a series of journals devoted to the dissemination of Dataset Papers, Datasets International hosts the underlying data behind these Dataset Papers and makes it accessible to all researchers worldwide.

The journal will be run using a collaborative editorial model which is designed to provide a fast peer review process for all submitted manuscripts. The journal will be edited by a distributed Editorial Board, and it aims for an average review time of 4 weeks from submission until a final decision has been reached.

Manuscripts that are submitted to the journal will be sent to a number of Editorial Board Members (typically each manuscript will be sent to at least 5 Editors), who will have two weeks to provide either a recommendation for the publication of the manuscript, along with a written commentary detailing any improvements that the authors should make to their manuscript, or a written critique of why the manuscript should not be published.

After the two-week period has elapsed, if the majority of the editorial evaluations recommend the manuscript be rejected, the manuscript will be rejected right away. If all the editorial evaluations that are received recommend that the manuscript be accepted for publication, the manuscript will be accepted. Otherwise, the editorial evaluations that were submitted will be anonymously communicated to all of the Editors who participated in the peer review process. Each Editor will then be given an additional week to review the feedback of the other Editors and to either confirm or revise their earlier editorial recommendations. If the majority of the editorial evaluations that are received by the end of this second round of review recommend the manuscript be rejected, the manuscript will be rejected. Otherwise, the manuscript will be accepted for publication, and the names of the Editors who recommended it will be published alongside the article. More information on the journal is available on the following web pages:

http://www.datasets.com/ (Datasets International Home Page)
http://www.datasets.com/journals/as/ (Journal Home Page)
http://www.datasets.com/journals/as/workflow/ (Editorial Workflow)

The journal will be published using an open access model, which allows disseminating scholarly articles by removing the access barriers imposed by the subscription model, in order to make the full-text of all published articles freely available for any interested reader. In this model the publication costs of an article are covered in the form of Article Processing Charges, which are publication fees paid from the research budget of accepted authors. In this model authors retain the copyright of their work, and we make every possible effort to ensure that the full-text of every published article is both visible and accessible to all potential readers.

Manuscripts that are submitted by the members of the Editorial Board of Dataset Papers in Atmospheric Sciences to the journal will automatically receive a 50% reduction in their Article Processing Charges.

Please do visit the web pages above and let me know if you have any questions or comments. We hope you will accept to join the Editorial Board of the journal and I will be looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Best regards,

Reem Mounib
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Reem Mounib
Journal Developer
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
http://www.hindawi.com/
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On Jan 23, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Mark A. Parsons wrote:

> I don't know any more than you do, Anne. I suspect many of these details still needed to be worked. You may be interested in a similar, existing journal--Earth System Science Data. They have addressed many of these issues. Check out the comments Dave Carlson, Editor of ESSD, made on my blog about the data publication metaphor at http://mp-datamatters.blogspot.com/.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -m. 
> On 23 Jan 2012, at 2:28 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>> Interesting.  So, I wonder what aspects of the dataset are reviewed, if any?  I see three criteria for publication: datasets are in approved data centers (approved by who?), have been awarded DOIs, and the paper contains requisite info.  I suppose those can be easily enough confirmed.  Is that all that is checked?  What about the accuracy of the information provided?  Who does the reviews?  Is it anonymous?
>> 
>> Anne
>> 
>> 
>> Mark A. Parsons wrote:
>>> A new "Data paper" journal…
>>> Cheers,
>>> -m. Begin forwarded message:
>>>> *From: *<sarah.callaghan at stfc.ac.uk <mailto:sarah.callaghan at stfc.ac.uk>>
>>>> *Subject: **Geoscience Data Journal *
>>>> *Date: *23 January 2012 6:58:20 AM MST
>>>> *To: *undisclosed-recipients:;
>>>> 
>>>> -->
>>>> 
>>>> Dear All,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Please find attached the outline for the Geoscience Data Journal, a new data journal that’s going to be launched in a few months.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The editorial board have (very sensibly!) decided to work closely with the data centres to identify potential authors for their data papers (at least until the scientific culture changes and it becomes normal to publish data sets like this).  I’ve been given the task of acting as point of contact between the editorial board and the data centres.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Data journals provide data centres with an excellent opportunity to promote the high-quality datasets stored in our archives, along with giving the scientists who created those datasets full academic credit for their efforts.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I’d very much appreciate it if people could spread the news about this data journal to both their data centre users and also colleagues in data centres around the world.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> If you have any comments or questions, then please do get in touch with me.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks and best wishes,
>>>> 
>>>> Sarah
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> Dr Sarah Callaghan MInstP CPhys FRMetS
>>>> 
>>>> British Atmospheric Data Centre
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>>>> STFC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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>>>> Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire
>>>> 
>>>> OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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>>>> 
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