Publications Committee

Subcommittee on Books

• Bob O'Malley, Chair: omalley@amath.washington.edu
• Nick Higham: higham@ma.man.ac.uk
• Hillary Ockendon: ockendon@maths.ox.ac.uk
• John Burns: burns@silver.icam.vt.edu
  
• Gil Strang: gs@math.mit.edu
  

Subcommittee on Journals

• Margaret Wright, Chair: mhw@cs.nyu.edu
• Margaret Cheney: cheney@rpi.edu
• Ed Olmstead: weo@northwestern.edu
• Nick Trefethen: Nick.Trefethen@comlab.ox.ac.uk
• John Betts: john.t.betts@boeing.com
• David Williamson: dpw@cs.cornell.edu
  
• Tim Kelley: tim_kelley@ncsu.edu
• Tom Manteuffel: tmanteuf@boulder.colorado.edu
• Mac Hyman: hyman@lanl.gov
• Linda Petzold: petzold@engineering.ucsb.edu

Journal Subcommittee Charge

• Evaluate and respond quickly to proposals for new journals. Make
  recommendations on new journal proposals to the Vice President for
  Publications, SIAM Board, and SIAM Council.
• Analyze the journal program to ensure that subject areas covered
  adequately reflect the needs of the SIAM membership and the applied
  mathematics, scientific computing, and computational science communities
  at large and that the journals remain current with the changes in those
  and related fields.
• Monitor journal editorial board structures to ensure that the
  models used best serve the authors and editors.
• Analyze and recommend effective ways to integrate the Internet
  into the publications program, such as electronic-only supplements to
  journal articles.
• Monitor free vs. fee-based delivery mechanisms for print and
  electronic publications.

Questions that the Journals Subcommittee should revisit periodically include:

• What is the mission of the suite of SIAM journals? How can SIAM journals best serve this mission?
• How much control should EICs have over the editorial policy of their journal?
• Should guidelines be established about rejecting papers without review
  when those papers are perceived to fall outside the scope of the journal?

These are just some of the issues related to the SIAM journal program that could be analyzed and evaluated; others may arise in the course of Subcommittee discussions.

Members of the Journal Subcommittee will be appointed by the President in consultation with the Vice President for Publications, the Chair of the Journal Subcommittee, and the CCA. Members will serve three-year terms, renewable once with the approval of the President. The President, in consultation with the Vice President for Publications, will choose the Subcommittee Chair. Under normal circumstances the Subcommittee Chair will serve a three-year term, renewable once with the approval of the President.

The Subcommittee will report annually to the Council and Board through the VP for Publications. The VP for Publications will serve ex officio on the subcommittee, but will not chair it. Much of the subcommittee's discussion will take place by phone and email, but one face-to-face meeting per year would be beneficial.