Society UpdateFrom the AJES Editor’s deskTender for publication of AJESIn 2012 the GSA Executive Committee decided that we shouldapproach the market to determine the best publisher forfive years with possible extension for another five yearsbeginning in 2014. AJES has been published for GSA by T aylor& Francis since 2005, and from 1984 to 2004 by Blackwells (nowWiley). Prior to 1984 GSA published AJES as a stand-alonejournal. Over that time AJES has expanded from four issues peryear in 1984, five in 199 1, six in 1993 to eight in 200 7. Usingcommercial publishers has allowed AJES greater penetration intothe science market, particularly through online access outsideAustralia.During 2012 we undertook a strategic planning meetingwith Taylor & Francis and several members of the Editorial Board(4 April in Canberra) and canvassed some of the options at theEditorial Board meeting that was open to all members heldduring the IGC (7 August in Brisbane). At the Brisbane meetingwe decided to immediately offer authors the option of goldopen-access and to include in the tender document an offer ofboth online and hard copies of AJES, to explore full-colouroptions for print and to investigate improved online access formembers. The journal would retain its current format, with eightissues and about 1120 pages per volume. The publisher’s financialmodel would be a profit-sharing arrangement with the GSA.The tender documents were distributed on 2 November 2012with a closing date of 30 January 20 13. Five publishersrepresenting small to large publishers submitted tenderproposals. A committee made up of Chris Fergusson, Chris Yeats,Sue Fletcher and I assessed the tenders and short-listed twopublishers for interview.Interviews were conducted in Sydney on 20 February 20 13with some issues later clarified by email. Recommendationsto the Executive Committee of GSA were submitted forconsideration at their meeting on 30 April 20 13. There was aconsiderable delay between the interviews and the decisionbecause I was on holiday for most of March but both companieswere advised of our timeframes at interview.The GSA Executive Committee accepted the recommendationof the tender evaluation committee to accept the T aylor& Francis offer, which includes printing in full colour at no costto authors. The Executive Committee also accepted therecommendation to print in Singapore, creating savings for theGSA.The Taylor & Francis offer alsoinvolves the creation, at no cost to theGSA, of a Society portal forimproved member access to thejournal through the GSA web page. Asthis portal would be on the GSA web page the GSA would retainownership of the portal. This portal would reduce some of theissues that members, particularly retired members, have whenthey access GSA outside a government department or university(which have one account enabling all employees access to AJES).Upcoming in AJESAJES Volume 60/3PF Rey: Opalisation of the Great Artesian Basin (centralAustralia): An Australian story with a Martian twist.RA Glen: Refining accretionary orogen models for theTasmanides of eastern Australia.RA Glen, RJ Korsch, R Hegarty, A Saeed, Y Poudjom Djomani,RD Costelloe & E Belousova: Geodynamic significance of theboundary between the Thomson Orogen and the LachlanOrogen, northwestern New South Wales and implications forTasmanide tectonics.FR Fontaine, H Tkalcic & BLN Kennett: Crustal complexityin the Lachlan Orogen revealed from teleseismic receiverfunctions.AJES Volume 60/4K Mills, P Gell, P Hesse, R Jones, P Kershaw, R Drysdale &J McDonald: Paleoclimate studies and natural resourcemanagement in the Murray–Darling Basin I: past, present andfuture climates.K Mills, P Gell, J Gergis, P Baker, M Finlayson, PL Hesse,R Jones, P Kershaw, S Pearson, P Treble, C Barr, M Brookhouse,R Drysdale, J McDonald, S Haberle, M Reid, M Thoms &J Tibby: Paleoclimate studies and natural resourcemanagement in the Murray–Darling Basin II: unravellinghuman impacts and climate variability.LF Dean & P De Deckker: Recent benthic foraminifera fromTwofold Bay, Eden NSW: community structure, biotopes anddistribution controls.GE Williams, VA Gostin & JR Prescott: Stratigraphy and opticaldating of Pleistocene coastal deposits in the Port Campbellaustralite strewn field, SW Victoria.MJ Rickard & IS Williams: No zircon U–Pb evidence for aPrecambrian component in the Late Eocene Yavunatrondhjemite, Fiji.<strong>TAG</strong> June 2013| 13
Also on the wayL Bagas, R Boucher, B Li, J Miller, P Hill, G Depauw, J Pascoe& B Eggers: Paleoproterozoic stratigraphy and goldmineralisation in the Granites–Tanami Orogen, NorthAustralian Craton.WK Witt, SG Hagemann & C Villanes: Geochemistry andgeology of spatially and temporally associated calc-alkaline(I-type) and K-rich (A-type) magmatism in a Carboniferouscontinental arc setting, Pataz gold mining district, northernPeru.WK Witt, SG Hagemann, J Ojala, C Laukamp, T Vennemann,C Villanes & V Nykanen: Multiple methods for regional-tomine-scale targeting, Pataz gold field, northern Peru.Vale Keith ScottKeith Scott died suddenly on 23 April 20 13. He was 64.A University of Adelaide graduate, K eith had an exemplaryresearch history with CSIRO that began in 1969. He workedprincipally in regolith mineralogy and geochemistry throughoutAustralia, particularly in Mount Isa, the Yilgarn, theDrummond Basin and the Lachlan Foldbelt. In 20 11 Keithpublished a paper in AJES on the geochemistry of rutile fromthe Kalgoorlie Goldfields.Keith was a valued member of CRC LEME, with closecontacts in many of the affiliated organisations, and wasgreatly respected by the exploration industry with whichhe collaborated throughout his career . After retiring fromCSIRO, Keith was a CSIRO Honorary Fellow and a VisitingFellow at The Australian National University (ANU) where hecontinued to actively pursue his scientific interests. Heworked on research projects from exploration in regolithterrains to the origin of dust with Richard Greene in the ANUFenner School of Environment and Society. He co-supervisedHonours and Masters students, and was a major contributorto the annual Minerals Technology Education Council (MTEC)Honours short course at the ANU. With Colin P ain, Keithedited the 2009 book Regolith Science and was a member ofthe Editorial Board of the 20 12 Geoscience Australiapublication Shaping a Nation: a geology of Australia.Keith was a good friend for more than 30 years andprovided advice and encouragement to me as Editor of AJES.We had almost daily contact over many years when we woulddiscuss editorial issues and other world problems.He will be sadly missed.Australian Journal of Earth SciencesiFirstiFirst is Taylor & Francis’ proprietary earlyonline-publication system, which makes newknowledge available to researchers in theshortest possible time.iFirst reduces the time from article submission topublication, making papers available for authors andreaders earlier and for longer.These papers can be published online through iFirst assoon as the production process is complete, ensuringsubmission-to-publication times are shortened. iFirstarticles published with page spans can be cited asusual, because all final publication information(publication year, volume number, page spans) isalready available. iFirst articles published as“Forthcoming Articles” can be cited using theirDOIs, in addition to the article and journal titles.To view accepted articles on the AJES websiteclick on the iFirst icon on the right hand side ofthe website: www.ajes.com.auJournal AlertsYou can subscribe to journal alerts to keep up-to-datewith AJES and many similar journal titles available fromTaylor & Francis.To register for this free service visit:www.informaworld.com/alertingANITA ANDREWEditor-in-Chief AJESAJES.Editor@gsa.org.auScan for the latest GSA news.14 |<strong>TAG</strong> June 2013
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