So I’m up in Woods Hole this week to make some quite major decisions regarding my Journal, The Biological Bulletin. We’re in the process of chosing an on-line editorial management system, hiring a business consultant and looking at the copyright transfer issue as far as authors are considered. All of this because, as you are probably aware, the entire scientific journal business is in major flux. Business models are changing, author expectations are changing and even one hundred year old journals, like ours, have to adapt or go the way of the Do Do bird (to use an evolutionary metaphor in defiance of intelligent design).
At the same time, I’ve been named to the editorial board of a new Springer journal, Cognitive Neurodynamics, which I think might be an exciting place to publish for some of us at Krasnow. This journal will be open for business in January and I’ll have more details about the scientific focus in the next several weeks or so.
On a personal note, my sister, Dr. Jacqueline Olds, is coming through town this afternoon on her way to her vacation house on Martha’s Vineyard. She and her husband, Richard Schwartz, are on the Harvard Medical School clinical faculty in psychiatry. I don’t know how many of you read the report in the papers the last several days about a study that supposedly shows how ineffective anti-psychotic drugs have been–it should make for interesting conversation though around our dinner table!
Happy Weekend to all,
Jim
Discoverers and Discoveries 