王应宽 2010-10-29 UTC-6 CST UMN, St Paul MN, USA CIGR Journal 期刊政策委员会第二次会议纪要 2010 年 10 月 28 日美国东部时间上午 9 : 00-10 : 00 , CIGR 期刊政策委员会主任 Fedro 教授主持召开了自该委员会成立以来的第二次网络会议。因为时差,我所在的明尼苏达大学圣保罗校区为中部时区,开始时间应为早上 8 : 00 ,前一晚干到凌晨 3 点,睡了 4 个小时,早上 7 点半起床跑步到办公室,接通网络刚好赶上。 Bill Stout 更惨,在 Idaho 的州府 Boise 属于美国山地夏令时,开会时间是早上 7 点,就得起来更早。全体委员出席,会议按照议程首先审议了 2010 年 6 月在加拿大魁北克召开的政策委员会第一次全体及扩大会议的纪要。然后由主编报告期刊编辑出版的进展,报告主要分两大部分:第一部分为前期所做的工作以及正在做和将要做的工作,包括编辑出版第 2 、 3 期稿件,在线监控跟踪全部稿件的评审,与作者、栏目主编和评审者联系沟通,编辑完善期刊网站提供完整的作者指南,稿件的初审和筛选,与检索系统沟通等方面。报告第 2 部分为主编考虑需要优先启动的行动计划建议,包括增加栏目主编人数以分担工作负荷,每个栏目推荐至少 10 位合格且高效的评阅人,各技术分会推荐专家担任编委,组约高质量的综述和研究论文,计划赴 Thomson Reuters 访问交流,指定助理编辑协助栏目主编和主编进行稿件评审联系沟通工作等。 然后是 Bill Stout 教授报告过去 2 个多月他在中国农机院担任访问学者协助主编工作的情况,主要包括 CIGR 期刊网站文件的编辑整理和网站信息的改进建议以及 CIGR 主网站的改进建议。委员们就会议提出的相关问题进行了讨论和决定,达成了共识。会议历时一个多小时。主编报告和详细纪要附后。 1 会议纪要 CIGR Journal Policy Board Meeting On Line, 9:00 -10:00 AM Eastern Thursday, October 28, 2010 AGENDA Call to order 9:12 AM Eastern Time. Attendees: Fedro Zazueta, Yingkuan Wang, Daniel Berckmans, Antonio Saraiva, Bill Stout Review of Agenda Minutes of Journal Board Meeting in Quebec were approved. Editors Report Report was sent by email. See attachment. Action Items 1) Increase the number of section editors as appropriate. Editor will work with Section Chairs to identify these individuals. 2) Identify at least 10 highly qualified individuals for each section that are willing to provide quick turnaround in review, and form the basis of the Editorial Board. A general criteria needs to be specified that defines a qualified reviewer (such as published authors in the field). Editor will recruit current section editors for this purpose. 3) Invite high quality papers. These should be submitted through the standard blind process review. 4) Yingkuan and Fedro will visit Thom p son, no objections. 5) Assign assistant editors Each assistant editor will help the Editor with logistics (only, not involved in technical decisions) Stout Report Past two months were spent in CAMMS. An abbreviated version of the report will be sent by email, including: 1. Priority action by the Editor-in-Chief a. Revision of the OJS website To many steps for authors to submit in strict compliance with the guidelines. Guidelines need to be moved to the OJS site. Likewise with the template. Add to toolbar an Author Guidelines get to all the information. b. Move vigorously to obtain indexing, EI, CAB, and eventually Thom p son ISI 2. Recommendations regarding the editorial process The Journal was run in the past placing a lot of responsibility on the authors. Starting with a list of items to comply with. Also, authors submit a final draft responding to reviewers comments, these are checked, if deficient send back to the authors. 3. Needed modifications to the CIGR main website Did and a had written edit was given to Lanfang, recommend that this should be is forwarded to the main website. Many errors related to the Journal that need s to be corrected. Responsiveness Issues raised by Banhazi and Aarnik. There is a need to review why a publication was lost in the process. For some reason it was archived. Yingkuan will review the process to obtain some insight. Creative Commons Link on Journal Web Page. Defer discussion to email. Next Meeting (early January, before January 15 th ) Adjourn 10:02 AM Eastern. 2 主编报告提纲 Editors Report and Priority Action Proposals Dr. Wang Yingkuan Editor-in-chief of CIGR Journal I. Things done, being done and to be done 1 Editing and formatting accepted paper for the second issue 2 Assigning accepted papers to edit and format for the third issue 3 Monitoring the review process of all the manuscripts 4 Communicating with authors, section editors and reviewers (delay in response) 5 Editing and improving the CIGR Journal website with help of Prof. Bill Stout 6 Preparing for setting up the Editorial Board of CIGR Journal 7 Pre-review, pre-screen the submissions 8 Communicate with indexing databases II. Editors Priority Action Plans First, Increase the number of section editors At present, there are over 20 in the section editor list (attached as follows), however, some of them retired, outdated or failed in ones duty. Too much workload has become one of the major reasons for the delay. Therefore, increasing the number of section editor to share workload will likely be an effective way to solve the delay problem. Specifically, the suggested numbers according the number of submissions are as follows: Land and water engineering, LWE-4 (35) (4-recommended number of SE, 35present number of submissions) Farm buildings and construction, FBC-3 (20) Equipment engineering for plant production, EEPP-4 (38) Energy in agriculture, EA-4 (35) Information system, IS-2 (11) , Management, ergonomics, system engineering, MESE-3 (24) Postharvest technologies and process engineering, PTPE-5 (52) Second, Recommend at least ten highly qualified and efficient reviewers for each section Many section editors complained that it is hard to find suitable reviewers. In some cases, one paper was sent to over ten reviewers, still no response for months. I wish each section can recommend some good reviewers, providing me their detailed information including name, educational level, technical title, major, research and review interest, affiliation, email address, etc. I will register them in the OJS reviewer databases. That must help. Third, Recommend experts to set up the International Editorial Board The editorial board will include over 100 members from over 50 countries Fourth, Invite high quality research papers and overview by each section Fifth, Visit and communicate with Thomson ISI for indexing and inclusion Sixth, Assign assistant editors to assist section editors in order to respond to inquiries timely Yao Haiyan, assigned to work and communicate with section LWE and FBC Dr. Wang Jin, assigned to work and communicate with section PTPE Zhang Pengzi, assigned to work and communicate with section MESE, EA Wang Yingkuan, myself, will take care of section EEPP and IS, invited overview Appendix: The present list of section editors Andre Aarnink , Netherlands Thomas M. Banhazi , SARDI, LSA, Australia Laszlo Baranyai , Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Daniel Berkmans , Belgium Remigio Berruto Antonio Brasa Ramos , University of Castilla-La Mancha William Joseph Chancellor , ASABE, United States Jozef Grochowicz , Poland Guanhua Huang , China Agricultural University, China Richard Love , Massey University Milan Martinov Neil McLaughlin Soren Pedersen , University of Aarhus, Denmark Pietro Piccarolo , Italy Antonio M Saraiva , Universidade de So Paulo, Brazil John K. Schueller , University of Florida, United States Bill A Stout , Texas A M University Jose Tarjuelo , Spain Mikio Umeda , Japan Yingkuan Wang , CSAE/CAAE--CSAM/CAAMS, China Fedro S. Zazueta Ranahan , University of Florida
王应宽 2010-10-29 UTC-6 CST UMN, St Paul MN, USA CIGR Journal 期刊政策委员会会议第一次会议纪要 MINUTES CIGR Journal Policy Board Meeting CIGR International Conference Wednesday 16 th of June , 2010 Room 202 Conference Center Quebec City, Quebec In attendance: Fedro Zazueta, Bill Stout, Yingkuan Wang, Da-wen Sun, Daniel Berckmans, Thomas Banhasi, Neal McLaughlin, John Schueller, Remigio Berruto, Pietro Piccarolo, Shujun Li, Zhang Lanfang, Zhao Xiaopeng, Yukari Tanaka, Toshinori Kimura, Susana Sepulveda, Antonio Saraiva, Zhongli Pan Meeting was called to order at 5:30 PM by Chair Zazueta.. Transition of Editors Office to China: A report on the transition of the Editors Office to China was given by Zazueta. Since the 2008 CIGR Congress in Brazil an effort was made to move the CIGR Journal content from the Texas AM web site into an outsourced Open Journal Management System (OJS). All content was successfully converted and over the past two years OJS was used to manage the manuscript review process. Statistics on the journal were published in the CIGR Newsletter. The need for professional journal management became apparent to achieve the stated goal of making the CIGR Journal a flagship journal for the Agricultural and Biosystems profession. Along these lines the Chinese associations stepped forward and committed resources to establish an Editorial Office in China for a period of 4 years. Parallel to this, this Journal Governance Board was established. The purpose of the Journal Governance Board is to provide strategic direction, actionable item approval, remove barriers and eliminate threats to make the Editorial Office more efficient. The Editorial Office is charged as an executive to manage the CIGR Journal and implement CIGR Journal related strategies. Progress on Editorial Office in China A report was given by Yingkuan Wang on the progress made by the Editor in Chief move to China. And an OJS training session was presented by Dr. Yingkuan Wang. The attached powerpoint summarizes the report. Strategic Directions and Discussion Principles. The following principles for the Journal were discussed: The Journal is the CIGR Journal, all decisions related to the Journal, strategic and operational, ultimately lie within the responsibility of the CIGR Presidium. The journal is an online journal. All aspects of the journal are free to all users, including authors (.e.g, there are no page charges for publication) Goals The Journal Governance Committee and the Editor in Chiefs office should pursue improvements in the following: Quality improvement Appropriate number of Section Editors Ensure actions that lead to Journal listings (ISI and others) Create and Editorial Board that reflects the international diversity and composition of CIGR Clearly define the name of the Journal Discussion: The following specific suggestions for improvement were made: Formally recognize student paper and reviewers. Ask section chairs for 5 good reviewers. Clean up reviewer database. Ask individuals to include their expertise. Ensure that publications can interface with a reference manager. Ensure that the key point for ISI listing is quality and its rigorous control. Editor should prescreen and reject unsuitable papers to reduce workload on section editors and reviewers. To improve future sustainability of the journal use the CIGRProceedings.org to finance the journal. Harmonize procedures across sections. Target new authors, increase number of links and references to papers in the journal. Meeting adjourned at 6:45 PM.
王 应 宽 2010-06-07 Beijing, China AOCABFE 2010 年第 2 次理事会召开 2010 年北京时间 6 月 5 日临晨 4 点(美国中部时间 6 月 4 日周五下午 3 点), AOCABFE 通过 FreeConference 召开了 2010 年度的第 2 次理事会。会议讨论通过了上次理事会的会议纪要,同时按照会议议程逐项的研究讨论了相关的事项。本人作为 AOCABFE 的中国区负责人( China Regional Director )和期刊 IJABE 执行主编参加了会议。除了向理事会汇报了期刊的最新进展以外,还提出由 AOCABFE 参与协办 2011 年在山东淄博举办的 2011 农业工程新技术国际研讨会的建议。会议通过了此建议。兹将此次会议的议程和上次会议的纪要转帖于此,留此存照。 AOCABFE 2010 年第 2 次理事会议程 Agenda for AOC board conference call in June 4 2010 1. Call to order 2. Approval of the meeting minutes of last conference call 3. Amendment to the AOC constitution: AOC official Chinese Name (Qiang Zhang) 4. AOC annual meeting preparation: business meeting agenda and award banquet agenda, etc. (Ruixiu Sui) 5. AOC student paper competition and achievement awards (Naiqian Zhang) 6. AOC Career Awards (Zhongli Pan) 7. Election of new board members and president (Zhongli Pan) 8. Treasurer's update (Yanbo Huang) 9. Impact update (Zuping Sheng) 10. Technology database update (Changying Li) 11. IJABE update (Roger Ruan) 12. AOC co-sponsorship for 2011 international conference on new technology of agricultural engineering (Yingkuan Wang) 13. SAC activities AOCABFE 2010 年第 1 次理事会纪要 Minutes of AOC Executive Board Teleconference Prepared by Yufeng Ge, Secretary, AOC Friday, April 092010, 3:00 to 4:50 PM Central Time Present Xiguang Chen, Yufeng Ge, Yanbo Huang, Yubin Lan, Changying Li, Jude Liu, Juhua Liu, Zhuping Sheng, Ruixiu Sui, Lingjuan Wang, Naiqian Zhang Call to order AOC President, Dr. Lingjuan Wang, called the meeting to order at 3:00 PM Central Time. Approval of Minutes The Board approved the minutes from the last Board Teleconference February 08-2010). AOC business meeting and banquet Dr. Ruixiu Sui, AOC Vice President, discussed with the Board about the AOC business meeting and banquet planning at the upcoming ASABE meeting. Items being discussed were AOC and student membership, venue of gathering, banquet expense, multi-media facility for the banquet, and invitation of ASABE officers and guests. Dr. Sui suggested making a gavel and flag for AOC and the suggestion was favored by the Board. IMPACT the AOC Newsletter Dr. Zhuping Sheng, Editor of IMPACT, planned to release the next issue of the newsletter before the 2010 ASABE annual meeting. He requested information from all AOC members. AOC awards Seven members, Ruixiu Sui, Jude Liu, Juhua Liu, Changying Li, Yubin Lan, Lingjuan Wang, and Yufeng Ge, were identified by Dr. Naiqian Zhang to serve as judges for AOC student paper competition. Since Dr. Zhongli Pan was not present at the teleconference, discussion on other AOC award categories was tabled. AAAE/CSAM meeting The AAAE (Asian Agricultural Engineering) and CAMS (Chinese Agricultural Machinery Society) will have a meeting in Shanghai, China, Sep. 16-20, 2010. A motion was made by Dr. Yubin Lan for AOC to sponsor this meeting and seconded by Dr. Ruixiu Sui, which was then carried over unanimously. Technical support database Dr. Changying Li, discussed with the Board about the current status of the informational databases. Dr. Li indicated that the information about the researchers and institutions was incomplete. Dr. Lingjuan Wang made suggestions to include Northwest Agricultural University in the database and put the technical support database on the AOC website. Student activities Mr. Xiguang Chen, President of SAC, reported to the Board about revision of the application form for student membership. A new form will be drafted by Xiguang and then will be reviewed by Dr. Naiqian Zhang. Xiguang also suggested adding new officer positions (secretary, treasurer, website developer for example) so that SAC can function more effectively. Xiguang also encouraged more students to join in the AOC student activities. Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 PM Central Time.
王 应 宽 2010-04-18 Beijing, China Minutes of the Inauguration Ceremony of CIGR Journal Handover to China By Dr. Wang Yingkuan Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, Managing Editor of IJABE, Associate Editor-in-chief of Transactions of the CSAE, CSAE and CAAE Time: 9:00-11: 00 A .M, April 7, 2010, Wednesday Venue: Meeting Room A606, Office Building, CAAMS Organizer: Prof. Li Shujun, Executive President of CAAMS, Deputy President and Secretary-General of CSAM, Member of Executive Board of CIGR Prof. Zhu Ming, President of CAAE CSAE, Editor-in-Chief, Transactions of the CSAE, Vice Standing Chairman of IJABE International Editorial Board Master of Ceremony (Emcee): Prof. Lanfang Zhang, International Cooperation Department, CAAMS Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Incoming Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, CAAE Attendees: Incoming President and Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, Prof. Fedro Zazueta, on behalf of the CIGR Presidium and CIGR President Prof. Sren Pedersen. Invited guests: Prof. Bill Stout, Honorary President of CIGR, Former Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, Founder of CIGR Ejournal, USA; Prof Jiannong Xin, Member of Executive Board of CIGR, University of Florida, USA; Prof Yubin Lan, Agricultural Engineer and Professor, USDA-ARS at Texas AM University, College Station, USA. Three Chinese Representatives of CIGR Technical Sections: Prof. Wang Maohua, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Member of CIGR Technical Section VII, Honorary President of the CSAE CSAM, Editor-in-Chief of IJABE, China Agricultural University(CAU), China; Prof. Li Baoming, Member of CIGR Technical Section II, Vice Dean of College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, China; Prof. Huang Guanhua, Secretary of CIGR Technical Section I, Section Editor of CIGR Ejournal, Director of Chinese-Israeli International Center for Training in Agriculture, CAU, China. Leaders and Representatives from CAAMS, CSAM: Li Shujun, Zhao Xiaopeng, Liu Ruiwen, Zhang Zhenxin, Lanfang Zhang, Li Qing, Wang Jin, Zhang Pengzi Leaders and Representatives from CAAE and CSAE: Zhu Ming, Qin Jingguang, Guan Xiaodong, Wei Xiuju, Wang Yingkuan and two part-time editors Rabi Rasaily and Lingyan Zhang presented. Over twenty participants attended the ceremony. The inauguration ceremony of CIGR E-Journal handover to China was held on April 7, 2010, Wednesday in the meeting room A606 of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences (CAAMS) office building. The organizers of the ceremony were Prof Li Shujun, Executive President of CAAMS and CSAM, and Prof Zhu Ming, President of the CAAE and CSAE. On behalf of Prof Li Shujun and Prof Zhu Ming, Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Incoming Editor-in-Chief of CIGR Ejournal, called together the ceremony, who was also the Master of Ceremony (Emcee) along with Prof. Lanfang Zhang from International Cooperation Department, CAAMS. The program kicked off at 9:00 am with the introduction to all the participants. The participants from USA were also present via video conference. Because of the time difference, many expected participants failed to present the ceremony. The followings are the key speakers with their brief views and remarks on the handover ceremony: 1. Prof. Fedro Zazueta, Incoming President and Editor-in-Chief of CIGR E-Journal, gave a wonderful speech with the title of Today is truly a memorable day Via Video Conference. He briefly recalled the history of CIGR Journal with three milestones: Prof Bill Stout launched the journal; Modernize communication resources of CIGR using modern IT technology and redesign the CIGR website, implementing an management system for the CIGR Journal; Move the journal to the Open Journal System with the help of Dr. Jiannong Xin, Dr. Bill Stout, staff at the University of Florida and Staff at Texas AM University. This established a modern online review system and open access repository for publications in our profession at no cost to the authors. Today, we are looking at a new horizon. With the support from CSAM and CSAE, and with a dedicated professional editor, Dr. Yingkuan Wang, the level of the Journal is being raised to a higher standard, and a new stage in the development of the Journal and its positive influence on our profession worldwide will come. He is looking forward to this close collaboration between CSAM, CSAE and CIGR. 2. Prof. Wang Maohua, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out in his speech that this ceremony is a landmark with great significance in the cooperation between CIGR and China. The CSAM and CSAE joining as a Chinese Federation became a national member of CIGR in 1989. Since then, the academic exchange and friendship between Chinese agricultural engineers and worldwide colleagues of agricultural and biological societies have become more and more close link with good cooperation development. In 2004, the CIGR International Conference with the theme of The Olympics of Agricultural Engineering was successfully held in Beijing. Prof Wang expressed his sincere thanks to all former and active CIGR leadership, all our friends for their great trust, friendship and cooperation. The CIGR E-Journal Handover to China from today will be much helpful for Chinese federation of CSAM and CSAE to learn more experience for CIGR activities. I believe that the editorial board and both the CSAM and CSAE will do best efforts to make the EJournal even greater success. In the past, we all benefited a lot from our successful cooperation. In the future, we will write a new chapter in cooperation. Great thanks to CIGR Leaders who have made the decision that the 18th CIGR World Congress in 2014 will be held in Beijing, China. We will do our best to co-sponsor this important event. Prof Wang stressed that the cooperation to establish a strategic cooperative partnership among CIGR, CSAM and CSAE is a multi-win-win strategy. 3. Prof. Bill Stout, Honorary President of CIGR, Founder and Former Editor-in-Chief of CIGR E-Journal, addressed at the inauguration ceremony at his home in Meridian, Idaho, USA Via Video Conference. He mentioned that the concept of CIGR Ejournal was born in Oslo of Norway in August 1998, and took shape at Texas AM University, USA with the publication of seven technical articles and two overview papers in 1999. By the end of 2009, the journal has grown with the publication of 484 original papers and 115 invited overviews with authors from 57 countries. Dr. Fedro Zazuetta proposed the Ejournal adopt the Open Journal System which was approved by the CIGR Presidium and he was appointed as Editor-in-chief in 2009. China proposed to host the Ejounal some time ago. That leads us to today---the inauguration of Dr Yingkuan Wang as the Editor-in-Chief under the sponsorship of CSAE and CSAM. He thanked the CAAMS and its President, Dr Li Shujun for the moral and financial support for the Ejournal. Prof Bill Stout believes that the future of the CIGR Ejournal is bright. It continues to strive for higher quality and is well on its way to becoming as good as any of the best journals in the field of agricultural and biological engineering. He wishes the new Editor-in-Chief, Dr Yingkuan Wang and all his colleagues well as they undertake this important assignment. And he is looking forward to continuing to work as their advisor and supporter. 4. Main points of the speech given by Prof. Li Shujun, Deputy President and Secretary-General of CSAM, Executive President of CAAMS Prof Li first thanked the CIGR Presidium for giving China the opportunity to operate the CIGR Ejournal. Since the 2004 CIGR International Conference held in Beijing, more and more Chinese agricultural engineering scientists have been actively involved in the CIGR academic activities and have been playing positive roles in promoting CIGR worldwide. From 2007, China has been seeking the opportunity to host the CIGR Ejournal. The three-party agreement was signed on October 16, 2009 among CIGR, CSAM and CSAE in the CAAMS in Beijing, which was a big step forward for the CIGR Ejournal to come to China. CAAMS provided 1 million RMB Yuan for journal as the launching fund. Two rooms for the Editorial Office of the CIGR Ejournal are ready now, equipped with internet connection facilities, computers, printers, fax machines, four lines of telephones as well as the furniture. Apart from the facilities, five staff members of the CIGR Ejournal Editorial Office have been selected and employed. The incoming Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Wang Yingkuan from CSAE has been recommended and selected by both China and CIGR due to his outstanding professional qualifications. He appreciated that Prof. Bill Stout accepted the invitation to serve as the advisor to the CIGR Ejournal. Prof Li also promised, as the host of the CIGR Ejournal, CAAMS will be glad to provide whatever is needed by the CIGR Editorial Office and will be happy to offer the best support service. CAAMS will also invite the universities and research institutes in China to make contributions to the CIGR Ejournal. Prof Li stressed that the operation of the CIGR Ejournal should follow the CIGR-CSAM-CSAE Three-party Agreement and the Bylaws drafted by the CIGR Presidium. We will also rely on the CIGR section chairs and editors to ensure high quality, make the best use of the talented people both in China and abroad, and upgrade the professional level of the Editorial Office staff by continued technical training. He disclosed the Dr, Wang Yingkuan, the incoming Editor-in-Chief, has a detailed business plan to improve the journal. He believe with joint efforts of all the related parties under the guidance of the CIGR Presidium and the leadership of the Editor-in-Chief, the CIGR Ejournal can be made into a first-class international journal equal to the best journals in the agricultural/biological engineering area. 5. Main points of the address given by Prof. Zhu Ming, President of CSAE and CAAE Prof Zhu Ming first greeted all the friends and guests there. He expressed his great honor and excitement to witness the inaugural ceremony of CIGR Ejournal handover to China. Prof Zhu gave his heartfelt thanks to CIGR Presidium and foreign friends for their friendship, trust and support, so that China can operate the CIGR Ejournal. He warmly welcomed CIGR Ejournal to China, on behalf of Chinese agricultural engineers and scientists! He is quite convinced that Chinas agricultural engineering will be booming together with the prosperity of CIGR Ejournal. Therefore, maintaining a strategic cooperative partnership between CIGR and CSAE/CSAM is a win-win policy, which is good for all. Prof Zhu believes that the joint efforts of two strongest societies, CSAM and CSAE and academies, CAAMS and CAAE in China as cosponsor to operate the journal, will surely accelerate the development of CIGR Ejournal. Dr. Wang Yingkuan from CSAE is well qualified and completely competent for the new editor-in-chief. Prof Zhu promised, as the President of CAAE and CSAE, he ensure that CAAE and CSAE will give full support to run this journal. CSAE will conduct close cooperation with CSAM and CIGR to promote the journal. Last, he wish CIGR Ejournal a great success in China and worldwide! 6. Prof. Wang Yingkuan, Incoming Editor-in-Chief, s hared his ten new ideas on further improvement and promotion of the CIGR Ejournal. Starting with using a definite title of the Ejournal, transforming into a quarterly periodical publication as a professional and scientific journal, active communication with all indexing databases, improving and customizing the journal websites, increasing the visibility and accessibility of journal website, organize OJS training for section editors and editorial staff, strengthening the editorial team by training, improving journal manuscript process, inviting good papers and organizing an international editorial board with over 100 members from about 50 countries. Dr. Wang stressed that he would really appreciate more liberty and decision-making power to handle the journal affairs independently, and should have a major voice in editing and publishing this journal, since CIGR, CSAM and CSAE trusted and selected him as the editor-in-chief. Dr. Wang gave his special thanks to Prof Bill Stout, Zhu Ming and Li Shujun for trusting and recommending him as the new editor-in-chief, and great assistance, guidance, effort and support to host the CIGR Journal in China. Dr Wang believes and wishes this journal a great success in China and around the world! 7. Brief report on the preparation work for the CIGR E-Journal Editorial Office was given by Prof. Lanfang Zhang, International Cooperation Department of CAAMS. The preparation work includes six aspects: 1) Leaders of CSAM and CSAE discussed the operation of the CIGR Ejournal with the CIGR Presidium. Dr. Shujun Li visited the University of Florida and talked with Prof. Fedro and Prof. Jiannong Xin on the CIGR Ejournal matters. 2) A team was set up with Dr. Li Shujun as the leader, and three working meetings were held to make the business plan, formulate the working timetable and the detailed steps to implement the plan. 3) Five staff members for the CIGR Editorial Office were selected and employed, and the first short training on OJS was conducted and the professional training on OJS and the editing expertise training are also planned by new Editor-in-chief Dr. Wang Yingkuan. 4) The present editor-in-chief Prof. Fedro made frequent communications with the incoming Editor-in Chief Dr. Wang Yingkuan, and four online meetings were held between the two editors and the meeting minutes were made, which very much ensured the smooth handover of the CIGR Ejournal from US to China. 5) CAAMS allocated two office rooms equipped with all the necessary facilities and furniture. CAAMS also provided one million RMB Yuan as the fund for staring the operation of the CIGR Ejournal. 6) The Editor-in-Chief Dr. Wang Yinkuan spent a lot of time on visiting the CIGR website and the CIGR Ejournal website to learn more information and try to find out what should be improved. He drafted a detailed plan to improve the quality and promote the journal. 8. After the formal announcement by Prof. Fedro Zazueta, on behalf of Prof. Sren Pedersen, President of the CIGR, the CIGR E-Journal has officially moved to China, and Dr. Wang Yingkuan has been appointed as the new editor-in-chief of the CIGR E-Journal. After the formal announcement of the handover of CIGR Ejournal, farewell was given to foreign guests and video conference was ended. The rest of the participants presented in a meeting room proceeded to the 2 nd floor of the same building for the unveiling ceremony of CIGR Editorial office and Editor-in-Chief office. Prof. Li Shujun and Prof. Zhu Ming jointly unveiled the nameplate of the Editorial Office. Prof. Wang Maohua and Dr Wang Yingkuan jointly unveiled the nameplate of the Editor-in-Chief office of the CIGR E-Journal. The ceremony was officially closed after taking some group photo s. The whole process of the Inauguration Ceremony of the CIGR Journal Handover to China has been recorded, and the video clips will be played during the 2010 CIGR World Congress at Quebec, Canada, on Ju ne 13-17, 2010. After the ceremony, a luncheon party was held to celebrate the successful ceremony and smooth handover.
王 应 宽 2009-06-06 UTC-6 CST UMN,St Paul 英文刊 IJABE 编辑工作会议纪要 6 月 3 日 在明尼苏达大学召开了由主编和执行主编参加的英文刊 IJABE 编辑工作会议,会议议程包括期刊的现状、问题、对策以及筹备 6 月下旬美国农业与生物工程师学会在内华达州的里诺 (Reno) 召开学术年会( 2009 ASABE Annual International Meeting, Reno, Nevada, June 21-24 )之际召开 IJABE 编委会等内容。会议围绕议程展开,讨论了若干重大问题,并达成了共识,现纪要如下: 会议纪要 Editorial Staff Meeting Minutes Time: 13:30 PM, June 3, 2009 Place: Conference Room 201, BBE South Bldg, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN Attendees: Roger Ruan, Wang Yingkuan, Paul Chen Agenda (attached) 1. State of the journal The journal has published three issues of high quality papers. The journal is now indexed by Chemical Abstracts, CAB Abstracts, and CABI. The journal is growing fast. The entire editorial team including editors and editorial staff has been doing excellent jobs. The editorial office will prepare an annual report with detailed statistics of submissions, review, decision and published papers, indexing, performance of the OJS and website, competence of editors, and income and expenses. 2. Manuscript management system issues The journal uses OJS as the manuscript management platform. The system has some minor bugs but the main issue is that many of our editors and reviewers are not familiar with the system. We plan to further customize and debug the OJS and website to enhance functionality, improve their user-friendliness and to provide better user (editor, reviewer, and author) manuals 3. Web server issues The website has a number of problems and rooms for improvement. Many of the issues are related to the server performance. Readers outside of China often experience download failures. Some automatic actions regarding editorial are not executed as expected, causing some problems along the peer review line. This is very serious. One option is to set up a mirror site in the US maintained by editorial staff at St. Paul, USA. We have begun to explore the technical and financial feasibility of setting up the mirror site. 4. Peer review issues Our DEs and AEs have been doing a very good job in getting manuscripts reviewed in time. However there were some cases with long delay causing some complaints. While the OJS is somewhat to blame, some DEs and AEs are overloaded. Therefore we suggest adding DEs and AEs to some divisions if necessary. We also need to recruit peer reviewers. We also believe that all elements of the review process must follow the schedule to ensure a speedy review as promised. We will also implement some kind of alert process to remind editors and reviewers of any unfinished/ongoing reviews. 5. Manuscript issues High quality submission is the key to the well being and success of our journal. We need to drum up our efforts in attracting more high quality submissions. We should invite and encourage our colleagues and friends to submit their manuscripts to the journal. Now is a critical phase of our growing journal. We must do more to move our journal a big step foreword towards editor-market state as opposed to author-market.We also hope that each division would solicit 1-2 review articles and ensure 1-2 very high impact research papers every year. 6. Accounting issues We will provide more details regarding income and expenses when we have the financial report. In principles, the journal is operated on the not-for-profit basis. All incomes are used to cover legitimate operational expenses including mainly printing, web service, mailing, editorial staff, and office supplies. Any major changes must be approved by the boards of AOCABFE and CSAE, and the joint publication committee. We also need to collect page charges from authors who have not paid yet. 7. Fundraising activities There are opportunities for us to raise more funds to support the mission of the journal. One such opportunity is to sponsor or co-sponsor international conferences on general BAE areas or specific areas. A highly visible and high impact journal could be an attractive feature of technical conferences. 8. Promoting the journal We must do more to increase the visibility of the journal. DEs and AEs are the most efficient network to accomplish this. Only when DEs and AEs have a passion for the journal could we convince others and gain strong support. We have also designed a flyer to be distributed during the upcoming IFT and ASABE meetings and other meetings (attached). We are also working to seek indexing by EI Compendex and SCI. We expect to get in EI later this year. SCI requires a few years of publication history. We ask our DEs and AEs to cite papers published on IJABE. This will certainly help boost our visibility in SCI indexing database. 9. Editorial Board Meeting duringASABE Annual Meeting, Reno We wish to report and discuss some issues during the ASABE meeting. Yingkuan and Paul will be at the ASABE meeting (Roger will be travelling in China during that period). We intend to attend the AOC board meeting and hold a special meeting for IJABE editorial board and AOC publication committee. We like to schedule the joint journal meeting, discuss agendas, and inform all editorial members. 10. The meeting adjourned at 3pm. 会议议程 Editorial staff meeting Agenda 13:00 PM, June 3, 2009, Room 201, BioAgri Eng Bldg, UMN, St. Paul State of the Journal Improving Manuscript management and its use Improving IJABE website Peer review process: problems and solutions Attracting more high quality submissions, invited overviews Management, accounting system, collecting publication fees Fundraising Actions to promote IJABE and gain indexing by SCI, EI, etc. Meetings at ASABE in Reno 新设计的期刊宣传页 IJABE Flyer for Promotion