王 应 宽 2010-03-19 Beijing, China CIGR 期刊网络工作会议纪要（ 2010-03-17 ） CIGR Ejournal 期刊工作会议如期举行，此次参加会议的人数增加，有 5 人在不同的地方通过计算机终端参会。会议由本人发起召集，通过 Skype 的 Conference 组建会议功能，召集大家开会。因为网络问题，会议期间有几位几次被 Kick out of the meeting 。会议很热闹，除了了完成各项议程，还进行了友好热烈的讨论。特别难能可贵的是， CIGR 前任主席、名誉主席， CIGR Ejournal 创始人和前任主编， Texas AM University 退休教授 Bill Stout 博士凌晨 4 点多就起床来参加会议，开完会有才回去睡回笼觉。会后他的会议评论很有参考价值，对以后的工作很有帮助。非常感谢各位的支持！ 会议确定下次视频会议的时间为 2004 年 4 月 1 日。就是愚人节那天！ 贴出会议纪要和 Bill Stout 的评论在此，以作纪念。 Agenda CIGR Journal Transition Meeting 2 7:30 AM Eastern March 17, 2010 Online Meeting In attendance: Wang Yingkuan*, Bill Stout*, Lanfang Zhang*, Xiaopeng Zhao*, Jiannong Xin, Fedro Zazueta* Call to order - 7:39 Changes to the Agenda Timetable for the transition of CIGR Ejournal Transition will take place immediately after the Journal board is in place. An announcement will immediately follow. Wang added: Wang and his editorial team plan to get started in early April after the CIGR announcement. A launching ceremony for CIGR Ejournal transition will be held jointly by CSAM and CSAE. OJS training for editorial staff will be provided in late March. Amendment of the Bylaws (May be discussed in next meeting) Changes to bylaws will follow standard parliamentary procedure, requiring approval by the Presidium. Observations: 1) Title of the Journal is not clear, this needs to be consistent. ISI is confused with it. 2) Some inconsistencies in repeated numbered headings that need to be addressed. 3) CIGR is an open access journal. Need to address copyright issue who holds the copyright author, CIGR?- 4) Composition of Journal Policy board. Members for geographic representation-. 5) Wang may not have the last version of the Bylaws. Communication from Thompson Scientific Request from Thompson for a description of the journal, we will need to respond. Wang will carefully study the ISI criteria to make any necessary changes to the approach. Journal Process The process is a blind review process. Wang adds: In general, after the manuscripts are accepted, technical editing, formatting, proofreading are necessary to make the paper ready to publish. English language polishing may be needed for the accepted papers with poor English from non-English speaking countries. Finally, converting Word file to PDF, and then uploading to the journal website. 100 Member Board? (International Editorial Board) Create an Editorial Board - Leave to Journal Board to create under the Editor. Change ejounral to ejournal Wang and Fedro will discuss offline. Replacement for Richard Love Fedro will work with section chair. Process for Section Editors Suggest to Chairs to move forward quickly A process is in place for the Section Editors to be selected by the technical section. Any member of a member society can be a section editor. The editor may nominate some candidates of section editors to Section Chair for approval. Status of Board members Recommendations will come from EURAGENG will come next week. Not clear about Africa. Next Meeting April 1 st , same time and location. Adjourn 8:21 Prof Bill Stouts Comments added to the Minutes Hello Yingkuan , Lanfang and Fedro , ---It was good to participate as a rather silent partner in the Online Meeting. As my primary assignment in CAAMS this fall is to advise Yingkuan and the Ejournal, here are some of my views. I hope they are helpful. First, some opinions about the overall goals of the Ejournal (not necessarily in order of importance): ---to obtain approval by ISI, EI, etc ---to continue to improve the quality of published papers ---to maintain diversity of authorship among countries ---to maintain a balance of authorship between developing and industrialized countries ---to publicize the success of the Ejournal in various ways, eg exhibits at conferences, articles in the CIGR Newsletter, prepare summary of papers showing authorship by country(I can do this in the fall), etc ---emphasize no cost to authors and readers ---etc A general problem in the past---some Section Chairs have been non-responsive and ineffective as far as the Ejournal is concerned. Dont be surprised if we continue to have this problem. How did I handleI appointed a few Section Editors when the Section Chair failed to fulfill his/her responsibilities. A good example was Bill Chancellor who did an outstanding job as Editor for Section III and served for many years until he resigned recently. Perhaps the authority of the Editor to take this action should be built into the Ejournal Bylaws. We may have a similar problem with members of the Journal Policy Board. Unfortunately, my experience is that sometimes busy people will agree to serve, but later fail to perform as expected and necessary. The key will be to select members who are knowledgeable about editing/publishing and are truly interested. And then to give the Editor the authority to replace non-performing individuals. Agenda CIGR Journal Transition Meeting 2 7:30 AM Eastern March 17, 2010 Online Meeting In attendance: Wang Yingkuan*, Bill Stout*, Lanfang Zhang*, Xiaopeng Zhao, Jiannong Xin, Fedro Zazueta* Call to order - 7:39 Changes to the Agenda Timetable for the transition of CIGR Ejournal Transition will take place immediately after the Journal board is in place. StoutI agree. Lets activate Yingkuan as Editor as soon as practical and end the uncertainty of the transition . An announcement will immediately follow. Amendment of the Bylaws (May be discussed in next meeting) Changes to bylaws will follow standard parliamentary procedure, requiring approval by the Presidium. Observations: 1) Title of the Journal is not clear, this needs to be consistent. In the past ISI has criticized CIGR for using several different names for the Ejournal. We should review all pages of the website (including the CIGR general website, Ejournal website, OJS instructions for authors, etc) to make sure that we consistently use only the official approved name. 2) Some inconsistencies in the membership that need to be addressed. 3) CIGR is an open access journal. Need to address copyright issue who holds the copyright author, CIGR?- 4) Composition of Journal Policy board. Members for geographic representation-. 5) Wang may not have the last version of the Bylaws. Communication from Thompson Scientific (I have a large file of old correspondence with ISI. Yingkuandid I share any of this with you? Do you want any of the old letters?) Request from Thompson for a description of the journal, we will need to respond. Wang (Fedroit would be more personal if you would use Yingkuan, his given name. We should all be on a first name basis.) will carefully study the ISI criteria to make any necessary changes to the approach. Since many of us will be in Pittsburgh for the ASABE meeting in June, should you consider a visit to ISI in Philadelphia? I dont think that I need to be involved, but perhaps Yingkuan and Fedro should consider it. Journal Process The process is a blind review process. The process Fedro outlined is essentially the same as that followed since the beginning of the Ejournal 12 years ago. That is, approval of two qualified reviewers is required. The Editor checks submissions to make sure they deal with engineering and fall within the scope of the Ejournal. Also, when I was serving as Editor, I checked submissions to make sure they complied with the Ejournal Style and Format. Then the manuscripts are submitted to the appropriate Section Editor who selects qualified reviewers. When at least two positive reviews are received, their comments are sent anonymously to the authors who are instructed to carefully consider the reviewer comments and prepare a final draft. I always asked authors to give me a summary of the revisions made in response to reviewer comments and also a list of any reviewer suggestions that were rejected by the authors and their reasons. These records were kept of file for several years in case anyone questioned the review process (actually, this never happened). In the event of rejection of a manuscript by reviewers, it is the Editors job to diplomatically advise authors. I always said the manuscript is rejected in its present form. This gives authors a chance to make major revisions and possibly correct errors, do more research, etc and resubmit if they choose. 100 Member Board? (International Editorial Board ) (I was cut off Skype from this point until the discussion of the next meeting, so have no comments on this section) Create an Editorial Board - Leave to Journal Board to create under the Editor. Change ejounral to ejournal Wang and Fedro will discuss offline. Replacement for Richard Love Fedro will work with section chair. Process for Section Editors Suggest to Chairs to move forward quickly A process is in place for the Section Editors to be selected by the technical section. Any member of a member society can be a section editor. Status of Board members Recommendations will come from EURAGENG will come next week. Not clear about Africa. Next Meeting April 1 st , same time and location. Adjourn 8:21 This type of Online discussion is very useful to keep everyone informed and allow input from all. Best regards to all! Bill Stout 17 March 2010
王 应 宽 2010-03-18 Beijing, China CIGR 期刊网络工作会议纪要（ 2010-03-05 ） 最近因为国际农业工程学会的会刊 CIGR Ejournal 事宜，本人频繁的里通外国，经常与 CIGR 的主席团成员和国内外的专家们网上联络，经常召开网络会议。我也因此熟悉了电话会议（ Teleconference ）、网络视频会议 (FreeConference, Video Conference) 、 Skype 视频会议等新鲜玩意儿。最近还由本人召集了几次网络会议。 3 月 5 日晚召开的这次网络视频会议是通过 Skype 在我和 CIGR 即任主席、 CIGR Ejournal 主编、佛罗里达大学教授、首席信息官 Fedro Zazueta 博士之间进行的。由于我被推选为 CIGR Ejournal 主编，即将接替 Fedro 的工作，并将该刊移师中国北京承办，有许多具体工作需要交接，因而需要频繁的开会，进行充分的沟通。会后将开会的议程和会议纪要提交 CIGR 主席团审议。 会议完成各项议程，还确定了下次开会的时间为 3 月 26 日。但后来因为有很多事情需要讨论，我们又把下一次会议的时间提前到了 3 月 19 日。 3 月 5 日是个特殊的日子。首先，这是毛主席题词向雷锋同志学习的发表 47 周年的日子（ 1963-03-05 ）。其次， 3 月 5 日也是我在科学网开博两周年的日子（ 2008-03-05 ）。其实，想想我不畏艰难的去迎接挑战担任国际期刊 CIGR Ejournal 主编，主要目的也是希望通过我的专业修养和丰富经验把这本期刊发展好，更好的为中国和世界农业工程界的科研工作者服务。在科学网开博客，目的之一也是希望把自己的信息、知识和经验与同行交流、分享，以期为需要者提供一些有益的信息和资料服务。因为都在做服务，故贴出此篇会议纪要以志纪念。 Agenda Wang Yingkuan and Fedro Zazueta March 5, 2010 Online Meeting Meeting Started at 8:00 AM US Eastern Time Zone. Journal Governance Bylaws Bylaws were reviewed by Dr. Wang , and he also translated the bylaws into Chinese. Therefore, Dr. Wang knew the bylaws very well. Dr. Wang, as the new editor, will follow the principles of the tripartite agreement among CIGR, CSAM and CSAE, and the Journal Bylaws to run the CIGR journal. Proposals for changes to the journal will be processed ac c ording to the bylaws. Journal Board Need to ask the President to appoint the Journal Policy Board. Wang can officially become the new editor at the end of the first board meeting, meanwhile , Wang and Fedro will work together for a smooth transition. Fedro and Wang recommend Prof Bill Stout to become one of the member of the Journal Policy Board. Overview of the Journal One volume/year Conti n uous publication Wang recommends to have several issues per year ( Say, a Quarterly, four issues a year ). This will be helpful in securing ISI listing as submitting several issues is required for processing by Thompson Reuters . Issues and Top Priorities Computer skills of reviewers/section editors Current mode of operation Some section editors are conducting the review process outside OJS. Competencies of Section Editors need to be improved. Communications need to take place through OJS so a record is kept. Training A training session for Section Editors needs to be organized during 2010 CIGR World Congress held in Quebec , Canada in June. . A letter needs to be written to CSAE and CSAM to invite Wang for purposes of securing funding to travel to the CIGR meeting in Quebec. ISI listing Past communication A copy of communications with Thompson was sent to Wang. No reply to these was ever received from Thompson. Creation of Official SG file on the communications The lack of a trail of communications has hampered the efforts to suc c essfully list the Journal. A request was made some time ago to the Secretary General to keep an official file in communications with Thompson. Strategy for pursuing listing Wang is familiar with the submission process and will assist the Journal Policy Board in deciding on a strategy. Number of Section Editors The number o f Section Editors may not be adequate to move the number of publications through the system on a timely basis. Section editors must represent the society by a mix from different countries. Section editors must be submitted by the Technical Section to the Journal Board. Wang and Fedro will identify areas where section editors may be needed and names to propose to the Section Chairs. Can the editor (Wang) recruit section editors who are not from CIGR Technical Sections? Next Meeting Wang and Fedro will meet again on March 26 th at 8:00 AM Eastern Time Zone, online. An agenda will be developed in the interim and other may be invited as necessary. Meeting adjourned at 8:55 AM US Eastern Time Zone.
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