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Challenges and Initiatives for the ASTMH’s Journal: 2008 and Beyond

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene is one of the ASTMH’s centerpieces in the pursuit of a critical and time-honored mission—the dissemination of high quality science that is germane to the interests and aspirations of our members and other constituencies committed to promoting research and education as a means of improving global health. This mission was true for the predecessors of the modern journal, the American Journal of Tropical Medicine, first published in 1921, and the namesake of the current journal, established in 1952 as a result of the fusion of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and the Journal of the National Malaria Society. The Editor in 1952, L.W. Hackett, commented that “the new Journal more comprehensive than the old [sic] in the expanded compass of its interests, hopes to offer its readers a broader sweep and richer content than before, and provide a channel of communication to the workers in every field of tropical medicine and hygiene.” In 2008, the Journal renews its pledge to these principles. New paradigms and challenges to scientific publications need to be considered in 2008. Electronic submission, peer review, and publishing of scientific articles on the internet are now the norm. This technology alone has had a positive effect on the time between submission and publication of papers since electronic publishing was instituted by the Journal. More recently, the open access movement whereby the scientific literature is made freely and immediately available to the public via the internet has inverted the traditional business model of scientific publication from one where the financial burden is assumed by the consumer (reader) to one where it is assumed by the provider (author). With respect to the scope of subject matter covered by the Journal, the breadth continues to expand well beyond the classic tropical infectious diseases to include emerging and re-emerging pathogens, HIV, tuberculosis, and causes of ill health that were previously limited to the industrialized, developed world, e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, etc. It has also become apparent that interdisciplinary approaches and efforts that involve not only basic and translational biomedical research tools but also those rooted in the social sciences, economics, and anthropology are critical to advance knowledge of and potentially alleviate the multiple causes of global ill health. In this spirit, the Journal will initiate several features in 2008 to address these challenges. First, there will be a new monthly front matter section consisting of brief reviews of scientific topics and/or policy-advocacy perspectives relevant to the interests of the Society. These papers may be solicited by the editors or submitted to the Journal by interested authors after receiving approval in response to an e-mail query sent to the managing editor (Cathi Siegel, cbs15@case.edu). Second, each monthly issue of the Journal will include a brief clinical case presentation and image or images that are of interest to the ASTMH. Authors can submit items for the “Images in Clinical Tropical Medicine” section online via the Journal’s submission site. There will be no cost to authors for these front matter pieces, and all such papers will be available immediately by open access. Third, in recognition of the fact that funding agencies that support biomedical research strongly urge or require their benefactors to publish papers conforming to the open access model, the Journal will offer the option of publishing any paper in this category for a modest fee. The precise cost will be determined shortly and will be published on the Journal website. The Journal will continue its long standing policy of making all its content available immediately and freely to non-profit institutions in developing countries via the Health InternetNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) set up by the the World Health Organization and major publishers. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene continues to be one of the premier scientific periodicals committed to publishing papers concerned with global and tropical health issues in its ever evolving iterations. We will continue our legacy of publishing papers on a wide variety of topics and disciplines relevant to global health, of not limiting our scope to selected diseases or disciplines, and of promoting the publication of papers by authors who live and work in tropical disease-endemic areas of the world as well as those who reside in economically advantaged regions. We invite our readers, authors, and others with an interest in promoting research and education on global health problems to help shape this vision.

Ethics in science: Are we losing the moral high ground?

Ethics in science: Are we losing the moral high ground?

Call for Papers

M. Belinda Tucker (Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles) and Ann C. Crouter (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University) will be the guest editors of a special issue of Family Relations on enduring couples in varying sociocultural contexts. Papers are due by January 2, 2007 for publication in Volume 57(2) of Family Relations, April 2008. This special journal issue will explore ethnic and sociocultural variations in couple longevity from multiple disciplinary perspectives using a range of research strategies. Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to, ethnic and sociocultural variations/similarities in relationship processes and factors affecting relationship endurance, as well as aspects of sociocultural contexts that facilitate or hinder relationship longevity. Examinations of the construct of longevity in contemporary unions are also encouraged. The issue will contain 10-12 peer-reviewed articles that use sound research methods. Non-empirical papers will be considered, but should have a strong theoretical basis and include implications for intervention and new directions for research. Papers that are data-based should demonstrate theoretical underpinnings, thereby linking ideas and data. Preference will be given to papers that explicitly link theory, research, and professional practice. The special issue guest editors encourage potential authors to contact them regarding ideas for submissions. Contact Information, Guest Editors for the Special Collection: M. Belinda Tucker, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. mbtucker@ucla.edu Ann C. Crouter, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University. ac1@psu.edu Submission Instructions: Complete instructions for preparing and submitting manuscripts online are provided at the submission site and at http://www.ncfr.com/fr/authors/index.htm. There also is an online tutorial available at Scholar One Online Users Guide. In order to route your manuscript for consideration in this special issue, please designate Belinda Tucker and Ann Crouter as your “preferred reviewers” in the submission process. The “preferred reviewer box” is located at Step 4 of the electronic submission process under the heading “Reviewers.” If you need further assistance, please contact the editorial office by phone at 540-231-1646 or via e-mail at frjourn@vt.edu. Please follow the appropriate APA 5th edition format when submitting manuscripts online. Formatting for tables must follow the guidelines listed at http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/hdfs/acock/tables/. In addition, manuscripts submitted online must be p repared for blind review. (This includes any documents you upload into Scholar One). A $15 processing fee also will be collected at the time of submission.

Editorial

Editorial

Editorial

Editorial

Journal of Animal Ecology: Instructions for Authors

Journal of Animal Ecology now only accepts submissions online. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with the following instructions, please access the online submission site at http://BritishEcologicalSociety.manuscriptcentral.com/ You must select the Journal of Animal Ecology when you log on.

Editorial

Ecology is far and away the most cited journal in the ecological sciences. According to the ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR), articles in our journal were cited more than 30,000 times during 2004 (the most recent year for which data are available). We are also proud to note Ecology's impact factor of 4.104, which places the journal at number 7 out of the 107 titles included in the 2004 JCR under the subject category “ecology.” We feel confident in making the claim that Ecology remains the premier journal in the ecological sciences. We strive to balance the demands of rigorous peer review with the authors' desire to publish their papers quickly. Only about 22 percent of the roughly 1,250 submissions we receive annually are accepted. We are extremely grateful to our highly professional yet volunteer reviewers and Editorial Board for careful evaluation of submissions and for the detailed reports they provide to authors. The timeliness of the review process continues to improve. We are very happy to note that the fastest three-quarters of submissions reach a first decision within two months of submission. Most accepted manuscripts are now appearing in print and online less than a year after submission. Accepted Reports appear even sooner. When everything goes right, an accepted Report can be published within six months of submission. We emphasize that concise writing and judicious use of Ecological Archives are the keys to rapid processing and publication of manuscripts. More than half of the papers published in Ecology during 2005 were associated with materials posted in Ecological Archives. We are also fortunate to have Janet Lanza serving as Ecology‘s Book Review Editor. She does a superb job of selecting roughly 40 books for review from the large number of volumes received and then soliciting expert reviews, editing the manuscripts, and maintaining the demanding schedule of the Book Review section of the journal. Finally, we are indebted to the extremely talented, conscientious, and efficient staff in the Publications Office for their hard work on behalf of the journal. We are very happy to announce the establishment of ESA's official Data Registry at http://data.esa.org. The editors strongly encourage the registration of data sets associated with manuscripts submitted to ESA journals. New links to the Data Registry from the Instructions to Authors and from the ESA submission site itself will facilitate the registration of data by our authors. Our hope is that the Data Registry will serve as a mechanism for “data discovery,” leading to communication (and possibly collaboration) between researchers and to meta-analyses. Data registry simply serves to announce the existence of data and to provide contact information. By registering data, one does not relinquish rights to research findings. In fact, the registry may serve to establish precedence for ecological studies. Our hope is that the Data Registry will eventually be linked to Data Archives containing the actual data referred to in the registry, and that all data underlying published papers in ESA journals will be readily available for purposes of verification, replication, and meta-analysis. At the “What Editors Want” session organized by ESA's Student Section for last summer's Annual Meeting, the journal editors were asked to establish a mechanism for assisting authors whose native language is not English in preparing manuscripts for submission. The Governing Board enthusiastically endorsed this idea, and so we are pleased to announce that ESA has established an online Bulletin Board where individuals can express their willingness to assist such authors. A “call for volunteers” has been e-mailed to all ESA members. Contact information for individuals who volunteer their services will be posted (along with areas of ecological expertise and languages spoken) at http://www.esa.org/authorhelp/. Note that ESA does not guarantee the availability of volunteers. Note also that the editorial services of volunteers will not in any way assure acceptance for publication by ESA journals. In the past, our advice has been that authors requiring English language assistance should enlist the aid of a colleague or service at their home institution. We still think this is the best solution. There are also “authors’ editors” for hire. A good source for finding authors' editors is the Council for Science Editors web site: http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/jobbank/services.cfm. Our goal is to publish the very best papers in ecology, regardless of the authors' native language. Our copy editors have always worked especially hard to improve the presentation of papers by nonnative speakers of English. We hope that the new ESA electronic Bulletin Board will further ensure that language barriers will not preclude communication of scientifically worthy papers in ESA journals.

Functional Ecology: Instructions for Authors

Online submission and review of manuscripts is now required. Please follow the instructions for authors given below. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with these instructions, please access the following web site: http://britishecologicalsociety.manuscriptcentral.com/. You must select Functional Ecology when you log on to the online submission site.

Journal of Animal Ecology: Instructions for Authors

Journal of Animal Ecology now only accepts submissions online. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with the following instructions, please access the online submission site at http://britishecologicalsociety.manuscriptcentral.com/. You must select the Journal of Animal Ecology when you log on.

Call for papers

1st IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment (NIME'04) GLOBECOM 2004—Satellite Workshop November 29th 2004 Dallas, TX, USA The growing availability of digital contents and the simultaneous cost reductions in storage, processing, and networking is driving the growth of the entertainment technology. Many of the technologies pioneered in emerging entertainment applications have also found use in a large spectrum of more serious settings, ranging from telemedicine to in-home, in-car, in-flight multimedia distribution platforms. The success of the entertainment technology is confirmed by several facts. Take, for example, the two following cases: in 2003 the revenues generated by games have yet again surpassed those provided by the movie industry; the Apple iTunes online music service has hit a record share of almost 20% in the MP3 player market in the last semester of 2003. Further, while in the past entertainment technology traditionally offered predominantly passive experiences (e.g., video on demand), continual advances in network and computer technologies are providing tools for implementing greater interactivity and for enabling consumers to enjoy more exciting experiences, such as, for example, interactive digital TV, interactive theatre and orchestrated music and sound design. Simply put, today's entertainment technology is able to create "entertainment spaces" in which people experience a world where games, movies, songs, plus news, sport events and shows, are all made available for instant enjoyment with just one click. Another beneficial aspect of high-tech entertainment is that this phenomenon is pulling together an extremely diverse group of experts specializing in different technical areas, such as networking, computer graphics, games, animation, multimedia design, human-computer interaction, educational media and software engineering. Even though high-tech entertainment promotes interdisciplinary fusion, however, only the ubiquity of wireless/wired communication is considered suitable for accepting the challenge of building a "large interactive environment" for the delivery of the maximum entertainment value to millions of consumers worldwide. In this respect, there is a great hope that the wired and wireless Internet (along with its protocols, architectures, programming styles and technological solutions) may take over this complex scenario for fulfilling the consumer expectations. The first IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment provides an open forum for researchers, engineers and academia to exchange the latest technical information and research findings on Next-Generation Multimedia Networking concepts, technologies, systems, and applications for entertainment covering existing deployments, current developments and future evolution. Authors are solicited to submit complete unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to, topic areas: Networked Technologies for Entertainment: Architectures, Platforms and Protocols for Networked Games Internetworking, Vertical Roaming and Session Handoffs for Entertainment (Internet to WLAN, to 3G/BT/...) Home LANs, Body and Personal Area Networks for Entertainment Media and Device Adaptation Music and Movie Distribution Next Generation Wireless Technologies for Entertainment (IEEE802.11n, UWB and Beyond) Opportunistic Multi-hopping and Opportunistic Networks for Entertainment QoS and Security Support for Entertainment Resource and Service Discovery Technologies (P2P, LDAP, ...) Technologies for Networked In-Home/Car/Flight/Train Entertainment TV-Centric and Broadcast Networks for Entertainment Emerging Entertainment Applications: Agent-based Entertainment AAugmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality AEvolutionary Entertainment AField Trials AInteractive Television and Theater AMassive Multiplayer Games AMobile and Wireless Entertainment ANetworked Entertainment ANetworked Narrative and Digital Interactive Storytelling ANetworked Video, Music and Sound Design APervasive Entertainment APersonalized and User-Adapted Television ASport, News and Entertainment AVirtual Technology and Virtual Environments for Entertainment AWearable Entertainment AWireless and Mobile Gaming ATestbed and Performance Evaluations Guidelines for Paper Submission: Original papers from the above mentioned topics or related areas will be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process. The accepted papers will be published in the IEEE-sponsored workshop proceedings. Submission guidelines should be strictly followed. 1. Submit an electronic copy of the paper in a .pdf or .ps format through the EDAS paper submission site (http://edas.info). 2. The body of the paper should not exceed 15 pages double spaced (4000 words, 12 point font) 3. A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent.

Journal of Applied Ecology: Instructions for Authors

NEW: Online submission and review of manuscripts is now available. Please follow the instructions for authors given below. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with these instructions, please access the following web site: http://britishecologicalsociety.manuscriptcentral.com. You must select the Journal of Applied Ecology when you log on to the online submission site.

Functional Ecology: Instructions for Authors

Online submission and review of manuscripts is now required. Please follow the instructions for authors given below. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with these instructions, please access the following web site: http://britishecologicalsociety.manuscriptcentral.com/. You must select Functional Ecology when you log on to the online submission site.

Announcements

Announcements

Functional Ecology: Instructions for Authors

NEW: Online submission and review of manuscripts is now available. Please follow the instructions for authors given below. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with these instructions, please access the following web site: http://britishecologicalsociety.manuscriptcentral.com/. You must select Functional Ecology when you log on to the online submission site.

Journal of Applied Ecology: Instructions for Authors

NEW: Online submission and review of manuscripts is now available. Please follow the instructions for authors given below. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with these instructions, please access the following web site: http://britishecologicalsociety.manuscriptcentral.com/. You must select the Journal of Applied Ecology when you log on to the online submission site.

Journal of Ecology news

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Journal of Animal Ecology: Instructions for Authors

NEW: Online submission and review of manuscripts is now available. Please follow the instructions for authors given below. When your manuscript has been prepared in accordance with these instructions, please access the following web site: http://britishecologicalsociety.manuscriptcentral.com/. You must select the Journal of Animal Ecology when you log on to the online submission site. The journal will cease to accept submissions of paper copies of new manuscripts after 1 March 2003.

Editorial: online and on time

‘Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis’ With this December 2002 Issue, the Journal of Biogeography truly enters the Third Millennium and cyberspace. From now on, it is hoped that all author submissions and referees' reports will be made electronically online employing our new, sophisticated and dedicated Web Site (http://jbi.manuscriptcentral.com) established for us using Manuscript Central™ by ScholarOne, Inc. As Editor, I am deeply grateful to Blackwell Publishing for facilitating and supporting this exciting development. A full guide to electronic submission is provided in the New Instructions for Authors which are located at the back of this Issue, and which will, as a matter of course, appear in all future Issues, with updates, as and when required. The Instructions are also available at our general Journal of Biogeography Web Site: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/jbi Figure 1 illustrates the Homepage of the new Journal of Biogeography submission site (http://jbi.manuscriptcentral.com), which gives immediate ‘Help’ facilities, a guide to ‘Instructions and Forms’, and, most importantly, your private JBI Login. On your first visit to the Site, it will thus be vital to create a Personal Account using the special Create A New Account Button provided on the left of the screen. This allows you to format your account details and password, and we would recommend that you alter your password from time to time to safeguard your private details. Homepage of the new Journal of Biogeography submission site: http://jbi.manuscriptcentral.com Beyond this, using the Site should be easy and intuitive when employed alongside our Instructions for Authors. There are many helpful online prompts to ensure that your manuscript, or referee's report, is correctly submitted. The potential advantages of this form of submission are legion: both authors and referees will have immediate knowledge that their submission has been safely received; authors will be able to track the editorial process, which should reduce immensely the need for correspondence and worry; authors will be able to submit all elements of their manuscript electronically, including large tables and figures (the Site can deal with many different electronic formats), and this will, on final acceptance of a submission, greatly facilitate the accurate and safe production of the paper in print; all correspondence will be by e-mail and via the Site which should avoid those unnecessary and frustrating delays caused by the use of air/sea mail and courier; the Site will ensure that manuscripts are correctly submitted, with all necessary elements, such as structured abstracts, biosketches and addresses. The onsite process includes various prompts to make sure that this happens; the whole process of submission, refereeing, editorial decision, revision and re-submission should be greatly facilitated and made much quicker and safer for all, but especially for overseas authors and referees. We hope very much that you will enjoy and appreciate this significant improvement to the Journal of Biogeography. The Journal of Biogeography has a long record of innovation in publishing and we aim to try to keep the journal at the forefront of both biogeography and science journal publishing in general. We are further striving hard to ensure that the journal is published every month on time and within its Issue month. In this respect, I should like to thank personally Dr Stephen Jones, our Production Editor, for his outstanding efforts to make this goal a reality. Undoubtedly, electronic online submission and refereeing will make his task all that much easier. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome to the Journal of Biogeography team our new Editorial Assistant, Kevin Wright, who has been appointed to run the journal from the Oxford Office following the recent closure of the old London Office. Kevin's e-mail is kevin.wright@oxon.black wellpublishing.com. I look forward greatly to meeting you all in cyberspace in the near future. PROFESSOR EMERITUS PHILIP Stott Editor, Journal of Biogeography, December, 2002

Announcements from the publisher

AbstractNew: Online Submission and Peer ReviewIn taking a step toward expediting the publication process, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics is now pleased to offer web‐based submission and peer review. To submit your manuscript online, please: Prepare your manuscript and illustrations in appropriate format, according to the instructions given at http://prot‐wiley.manuscriptcentral.com/ under the “Instructions and Forms” button. Please also be sure that your paper conforms to the scientific and style instructions of the Journal per the guidelines in the Instructions for Authors, which appear at the end of this issue and at the Journal's homepage at: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0887‐3585/authors.html If you have not already done so, create an account for yourself in the system at the submission site, http://prot‐wiley.manuscriptcentral.com/ by clicking on the “Create an Account” button. To monitor the progress of your manuscript throughout the review process, just login periodically and check your Author Center. Please be sure to study the Instructions and Forms given at the site carefully, and then let the system guide you through the submission process. Online help is available to you at all times during the process. You are also able to exit/re‐enter at any stage before finally “submitting” your work. All submissions are kept strictly confidential. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at edsupport@wiley.com. Reduced Publication Times of Proteins ArticlesWith the publication of Proteins articles via EarlyView®, wherein individual articles are published online in full text HTML and PDF before release of the compiled print issue and with the implementation of the electronic proofing service to authors, we have significantly reduced the overall publication times of Proteins articles. After acceptance, Proteins now publishes all articles online within 3 months and in print within 3.5 to 4 months. Overall publication time now averages approximately 7 months. All articles posted online in EarlyView® are peer‐reviewed, copyedited, author corrected, and fully citable.Structure Notes ArticlesYou can now publish reports of new protein structure determinations in the Structure Notes section of Proteins.Structure Notes are one‐two page articles describing a novel protein structure of unknown function and/or those with recurring topology. Structure Notes are published within 3 months of receipt at the editorial office by expediting all stages of editorial review and production. The online version of Structure Notes will contain a link to the relevant entry in the Protein Data Bank.To help expedite publication of Structure Notes, we have placed strict restrictions on the length of the articles. The text of each article must not exceed 1,200 words, with no more than 5 references listed. One table or a black and white figure may be included (but not both), but the number of words for the text must then be limited to 1,100. The table may contain up to 4 columns and 14 rows. The figure may be reproduced at 3″ × 2.5″ (width by length). The Production Department will reduce any figure, which is larger than these dimensions to fit the allotted space.Page charges, which include 100 reprints, for Structure Notes are $300.00 per one page article, $500.00 per two page article. For instructions on how to submit a Structure Note and to visit a recently published Structure Note, appearing in Volume 45, Issue 3, pages 281–282 by Berry et al., please visit the Journal's homepage at www.interscience.wiley.com/proteins.

Improving Goodput by Coscheduling CPU and Network Capacity

In a cluster computing environment, executable, checkpoint, and data files must be transferred between application submission and execution sites. As the memory footprint of cluster applications increases, saving and restoring the state of a computation in such an environment may require substantial network resources at both the start and the end of a CPU allocation. During the allocation, the application may also consume network bandwidth to periodically transfer a checkpoint back to the submission site or checkpoint server and to access remote data files. Under most circumstances, the application cannot use the allocated CPU while these transfers are in progress. Furthermore, if the application is unable to transfer a checkpoint or successfully migrate at preemption time, work already accomplished by the application is lost. The authors define goodputas the allocation time when a remotely executing application uses the CPU to make forward progress. Goodput can be significantly less than allocated throughput due to network activity. The authors are currently engaged in an effort to develop coscheduling techniques for CPU and network resources that will improve the goodput delivered by Condor pools. They report techniques that they have developed so far, how they were implemented in Condor, and their preliminary impact on the goodput of the authors’ production Condor pool.