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sciencewg-frontiers Open Science Frontier Research Topic Project Meeting

When: TBC (Doodle: http://doodle.com/ytugc335kfnrt89g
How: Skype (add your ID below)

Participants should add name and Skype ID below:
Attending:
    Jenny Molloy (jcmcoppice12)
    Rayna (maliciarogue)
    Fabiana Kubke (superfabs)
    Sridhar Gutam (sridhar.gutam)
    
Agenda:
    
    1. Finalise scope:
    Domain scope of journal is cell and developmental biology (CDB) and articles could cover many aspects of open science: 
        * Open data production and reuse. 
        * Open hardware for CDB. 
        * Open participation by citizens in CDB. [maybe not CDB?] [think outside the box - genomes, image processing]
        * Open notebook science and open collaborations in CDB
         * Role of openness in reproducibility in CDB
         * Attitudes to sharing among researchers, barriers and incentives to share.
         
    2. Draft call for submissions
    3. Decide roles
    
    Skipped final two items until more info on below, conversation became:
        Is a special collection on open science (in life science) a good idea?
        What should the scope of such a collection be?
        Where would be a good place to publish such a collection bearing in mind 
    
Meeting:
    How does the process with Frontiers work? [see proposal details below]
    Jenny can't be listed as editory b/c !PhD 
    How narrow does the link with CDB have to be?
    Are they asking for open science to bring it up to the CDB people?
    Crowd fund, find grant to help with APC?
    Is the pool of people too small? What are the COIs between authors/editors/reviewers?
    How narrow to CDB? Can we have people from out of field. [Jenny]
        How does the process with Frontiers work? [Jenny]
        How much do these articles need to be "research"? Or can they be *about* research?
        Do we need to show certificates of PhD
        Need to ask about $

Ref Links:
    Research Topics: http://www.frontiersin.org/about/RTGuidelines
    Publishing fees:  http://www.frontiersin.org/about/PublishingFees
    
    Action Point:
        Jenny to ask above questions of Frontiers editor?
        All to add to scope if appropriate
        All to consider potential alternative publication venues
        
        The team of Topic Editors (your colleagues) should indeed include at least one senior researcher (e.g. Associate / full Professor or equivalent) and all of them must have a significant editorial experience, besides holding at least a PhD degree. This helps to make the call for participation appeal to a broader spectrum of researchers and to prevent potential conflicts of interest (COI) during the review process. To find out more about our review process, please follow this link (Conflicts of Interest).

Proposal details from email
 
Please note that all Topic Editors must register in the Frontiers website before the proposal is submitted online.
 
In order to prepare the Research Topic proposal, I would suggest that you:
 
1. Read our guidelines on how to organize a Research Topic and to browse our list of existing Research Topics before you write your proposal in order to avoid significant overlap.
 
2. Prepare your Research Topic proposal. For that you should fill in this form and send it back to me at your best convenience. In this form, please consider:
 
- Title and Description: compelling and concise, no longer than 500 words (no references needed).
 
- Deadline for manuscript submission: we usually suggest 1-2 months for the abstracts plus 4-6 months for the manuscripts, but you are free to decide on this time frame.
 
- Specialty section: select one of the Sections under the Cell and Developmental Biology (or any other you prefer) - here is an example: Membrane Physiology and Membrane Biophysics. In case you have doubts about the most suitable Section, I would advise you to read each Section's "Mission Statement" (please consider the previous link also as an example).
 
- Potential Contributors: Please fill in the following excel template with a list of a minimum of 20-25 potential contributors who would be likely to submit an article to your Topic once it is officially accepted online. Only the following fields are required: email address, first name and last name. Note that you do not have to contact these persons at this stage, only after your topic has been accepted. 

This list should allow your Research Topic to receive at least 10-15 manuscripts. If your Research Topic publishes 10 or more articles, we will create a free open-access e-book.

Note that to suggest and host a Research Topic is free of charge. The publishing fee varies depending on the article type that authors wish to submit - some are free of charge.
 
Once you send me the proposal, I would appreciate if you could also attach all Topic Editors' CVs, including their publications.
 
If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them.
I look forward to receiving your Research Topic proposal!