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ISICR Publications Committee Minutes
Sunday October 3
1:00pm Hyatt Regency, Chicago.
Members in Attendance:
Bryan Williams, Chair
Jerome Tilles
Anthony Sadler
Representing JICR:
Ganes Sen
Thomas Hamilton
Apologies received from Karen Mossman
AGENDA
Acknowledgement of service of retiring members
Minutes from 2009
Update from JICR Editors
Relationship with Publisher
ISICR membership linkage to JICR subscription
Interactions with Cytokine, official Journal of ICS.
The chair acknowledged the service of retiring members Jerry
Tilles, Cassy James, Margaret Sekellick and Deborah Vestal and
particularly long-standing Chair Robert Fleischmann. New
members appointed to the committee were Allan Lau, Karen
Mossman and Anthony Sadler.
There were no minutes tabled from 2009.
Relationship with Publisher. The committee recommended that
electronic access to the Journal being tied to ISICR
membership should be pursued. This was to be taken up in
discussion with the Publishers at a breakfast meeting during
the conference.
Interactions with Cytokine. It was acknowledged that Cytokine
was the official journal of the ICS as JICR was the official
journal of ISICR. In the event of a merger of the societies the
relationships of the two publishers needs to be considered
although it was noted that it is was not uncommon for scientific
societies to have more than one official journal. It recommended
that the JICR publisher be made aware of the merger discussions
between the societies.
The meeting concluded at 3.00pm
Respectfully submitted
Bryan Williams
Chair, ISICR Publications Committee
The JICR Editors Thomas Hamilton and Ganes Sen gave an
update on JICR noting that it was the 30th anniversary of the
Journal. This would be acknowledged by a special Editorial
Board luncheon scheduled at the conference attended by the
publisher Mary Ann Liebert. The publication of 2 special review
issues of the Journal with a third in press was reported along
with 7 solicited reviews. Although the impact factor of the
Journal was unchanged this was expected to move up once the
review were disseminated. Further review issues were under
consideration. Editorial Board turnover was being encouraged
with a new group of candidates expected to be distributed to
the Publications committee for approval (this was completed
December 20th, 2010).
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