Applied Economics Research Bulletin

 

 

 

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In the first two weeks of our operation, we received six high-quality manuscripts, of which we accepted one for publication.  However, the Applied Economics Research Bulletin plans to be fully operational only in 2008.  

Many tasks remain and some of these are outlined below. 

 

Currently we are in the process of putting together an advisory board for the journal. Following this, we plan to choose our Associate Editors. The journal hopes to put together an exceptionally outstanding editorial board.

The next step would be to assemble a team of highly competent researchers who will happily put in more than adequate time as article editors (reviewers) and help the journal ensure a quick turnaround.

It is expected that papers published in the Applied Economics Research Bulletin will form the foundations for more refined works that will subsequently be submitted to other leading journals. Presently, editors of leading journals are being persuaded that manuscripts published in the Applied Economics Research Bulletin should, in the interest of widest dissemination, also be publishable in their journals.

Some researchers have indicated that they would like the journal to be included in citation counting databases, so this is something that needs to be done before we become fully operational.

At least one established university library has to be persuaded to permanently archive all the manuscripts published in the journal. This library must make the journal contents available on a permanent basis just as they archive paper content. We also need to resolve the problem of stable URLs so that published articles will continue to be available at the same URL forever. These steps are necessary to ensure that journal contents are as stable and permanent as that of any paper publication.

In the interest of disseminating journal contents as widely as possible, we need to take steps to submit articles to RePEc, so that they are included in IDEAS, EconPapers, and Economic Theory News.  We need to list the Applied Economics Research Bulletin in the Directory of Open Access Journals maintained by Lund University Libraries so that the journal gets automatically listed in the catalog of libraries of various universities. We also need to register the journal with New Jour, a resource used by librarians, and on the Economic Journals website.

 

We need to mirror the Applied Economics Research Bulletin so that journal contents will be accessible even if our website is down.  We plan to look into general purpose website mirroring software, such as the open-source httrack software.

 

We need to look into copyright regulations that will protect our authors.  We want their work to be freely accessible to the widest audience possible while ensuring that the authors retain the maximum control over their work.  We plan to carefully examine the Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial license because it allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given.

We also need to develop software that will be used to operate the Applied Economics Research Bulletin.

 

The journal needs to apply for and be assigned an ISSN number.

We plan to seek the journal’s endorsement by SPARC, which is a worldwide alliance of research institutions, organizations and libraries working to correct market dysfunctions in the scholarly publishing system.

There are many other similar tasks remaining, following which the journal will be announced and promoted to the economics and marketing research communities.

After the journal is smoothly running, we want it to be housed at various universities and research institutions. This is important because this journal belongs to the entire community of researchers; hence it is imperative to ensure that it is not tied to any one particular individual or organization. So as a last step, we need to find universities who will commit to running this journal in a completely non-commercial, open-access way.

Thus the Applied Economics Research Bulletin plans to be fully operational only in 2008. Meanwhile, faculty, doctoral students or institutions who would like to assist in any of the tasks above are urged to contact the journal.