OK Well I would like to thank the library
and the participants as well.

This is a little bit different
viewpoint here again a little

bit different viewpoint from a brand
new journal that we're just watching.

I can validate some of the comments
that we just heard about two

years ago we began discussing
the idea of the new international

journalist somebody management
through my professional association

which is primarily
a practitioner association but

there's a small group of academics
who kept saying we have this very

limited number of publications that we
can go to there are there's actually two

peer review journals in our industry
which is primarily a young industry so

that's one of the concepts not only do
we want to publish but we want to share

information across the globe to help
increase the industry knowledge

about the industry and really build up
the body of knowledge for ourselves.

So as I said about two years ago

we came up with the idea we
started talking about it.

We actually put together a formal proposal
that went to Blackwell wildly now

combined as we heard organisation and
they didn't tell us.

No but they didn't say yes either because
I think they recognise that drone

publishing is in rather a delimiter
now they don't know how to

gain additional subscriptions with the
very high rates that they're charging and

at the same time we were becoming aware of
the compact for open access policy that

some of the universities that Rick
mentioned the MIT Harvard Cornell

those schools were talking about we
said you know if they can do it.

We can do it.

So we really looked closely.

I became aware of the open access just
in here it George attack sat down and

spent some time trying to really
understand that and said This is great and

it's not free and
it's published here on this.

But it's basically free for

our association the storing
of the materials and

the support of the library staff
come to us in a version this for

a while though it is
supported by Georgia Tech.

So as with all journals we have
our editors our reviewers and

our contributors.

Of course are on paid and we did decide
that we did need some administrative

assistant so we've done some
fundraising within the association and

some allied associations to
bring in about eleven thousand

dollars that we're hoping will get us
through the first year of publishing and

then we'll need to spend more
time in fund raising again.

But basically just in Ministre the person
to help us with all the actual posting

duties outside of the system
functionality itself

the public knowledge project and O.J.
S. is the system that the Georgia Tech

library uses it is an open
access system and I would

say it's a very robust system I'm still
learning all the ins and outs of it but

that's one of the reasons that we chose to
just go forward with this venture because

so many things were already a part
of the system the structure for

receiving papers submitting them
to reviewers receiving reviewers

reviews and making decisions about
publishing or are really pretty simple.

If you follow this the O.J. a system.

So right now where we just had our call
for papers two weeks ago we've got three

papers that have been submitted we're
still targeting to try to go live with

our first issue as we're going to call it
an indie Simberg but we do have to have

a rolling increase in the number of papers
that we include during the years that.

Here's the here's
the the Journal Web site right now.

Interesting.

Like when the call went
out there was just.

Some basic information in
the reference to the website.

We had some European reviewers
questioned whether we had a high A C.

and you know how we were doing peer review
all of that is set up we're actually doing

a blind review with three reviewers to
help us really meet that standard for

review and making sure that
we're publishing in rigorous man

again the online publishing system
has its own structure set up.

We were able to really short
cut a lot of the roles and

responsibilities that could be
required such as copy editing and

layout we're putting a lot of that back
on the authors themselves and the editors

will see how that goes then he changes
we actually go through the process but

we're hoping to install some
rigor in the requirements for

submission by the authors so
that there will be less of that

work behind things before
the issue is completed.

We felt very comfortable
that open access and

peer review would still be
a strong part of the journal and

so we're hoping that once were launched
in once we get papers out there.

We will be gaining a good impact
factor but one of our key goals is as

I said to capture of the body of knowledge
for this emerging and growing industry.

We felt like open access was really
the best way to do that as Rick mentioned

we really want to reach out
to communities in the world

China South America India Africa
those areas they would not

be able to typically read the information
in a journal and get that knowledge and

help expand the industries there so
we really see it as a win win both for

our profession and for the academics
who can contribute and get credit for

that as well as the practitioners and
we are.

I don't think I mentioned we are trying
to balance both practice papers and

research paper so
that we do reach the whole audience.

Thanks.