[Vp-integration-subgroup] Reminder to vote on white paper Venue - CONTIBUTORS - Please ACT by 4/16

[Jacob Barhak]

Greetings white paper contributors,

Please vote on a venue for the paper. There are less than two days to vote
to influence the submission venue.

We had 2 votes by now
Cureus by John Rice
iScience by James Glazier

John Rice was first,  yet did not reply to all as requested and sent me the
email - I forwarded his vote to the list first. James was the first that
replied to all,  so technically he is the first valid vote.

So currently there is a tie that should be broken by first vote which is
open to interpretation. Since time is running out,  I suggest people choose
to make the choice distinctive, otherwise I will vote to break the tie and
was hoping to avoid voting since I had a lot of influence already and
wanted to yield control.

So please,  if you have a preference on venue,  please vote for one venue
by 1am CDT  April 16th.


I hope we have a conclusive decision.

         Jacob




On Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 17:17 James Glazier <jaglazier at gmail.com> wrote:

> iScience
> James A. Glazier
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 12:40 PM Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings White paper Contributors,
>>
>> This is your chance to decide on the venue. If you name is on this list,
>> please take a few minutes anv vote for the venue:
>> Jonathan Karr
>> Rahuman Sheriff
>> James Osborne
>> Gilberto Gonzalez Parra
>> Eric Forgoston
>> Ruth Bowness
>> Yaling Liu
>> Robin Thompson
>> Winston Garira
>> Marcella Torres
>> Hana M. Dobrovolny
>> Tingting Tang
>> William Waites
>> James Glazier
>> James R. Faeder
>>
>> Currently one vote was cast and unless there will be more votes, the
>> venue voted for will be chosen. So if you have a strong preference, this is
>> your chance to influence the publication venue.
>>
>> You will find eligible venues below as well as additional details.
>>
>> I look forward to your votes.
>>
>>                Jacob
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 7:04 PM John Rice <john.rice at noboxes.org> wrote:
>>
>>> No objection to any but will VOTE CUREUS.
>>>
>>> My understanding it was created to provide a peer reviewed open source
>>> indexed journal that could accommodate new forms of papers and new relevant
>>> topical areas.  Good timing for them lifting the limit on references, so
>>> assume this paper could be submitted in current form subject only to
>>> reviewers’ response.
>>>
>>> Don’t know that it has a model credibility related topic section yet.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Typed with two thumbs on my iPhone.  (757) 318-0671
>>>
>>> “Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
>>> Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
>>> Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
>>> Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
>>> Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
>>> To weave it into fabric.”
>>>
>>> –Edna St. Vincent Millay,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 8, 2021, at 01:23, Jacob Barhak <jacob.barhak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Greeting White paper contributors,
>>>
>>> The old Thread that contained discussions towards creations and approval
>>> of the white paper have become too long, so I started a new maling thread.
>>>
>>> You can find the old discussion thread here:
>>>
>>> https://lists.simtk.org/pipermail/vp-reproduce-subgroup/2021-April/000052.html
>>>
>>> To summarize, we have reached a point where 17 authors approved the
>>> following version for submission, pending some minor changes like
>>> spelling and grammar correction.
>>>
>>> To avoid any confusion - here is the paper version we approved is here:
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IMEgmdNkx-EsnOjGuegpenSIMmKIkK00Lc8Gred3QxM/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> At this point we need to select a venue to submit the paper to. Here is
>>> a short list I collected after incorporating all the suggestions and
>>> removed all venues that had any objections. To your convenience I added
>>> additional notes form personal knowledge - I did not look at issues such as
>>> publication fees for open access - different venues may have different
>>> rules and may require some additional investment, so please look at the
>>> venue you are choosing and learn the limitations/benefits before you vote:
>>>
>>> Here is the short list:
>>>
>>>    1. Cureus - will require cutting out some references due to
>>>    limitation
>>>    2. Nature - if you vote for this venue please specify flavour such
>>>    as Nature Scientific Reports
>>>    3. Science
>>>    4. Briefings in Bioinformatics
>>>    5. Trends in Biotechnology - requires distilling the paper
>>>    6. Journal of The Royal Society Interface
>>>    7. Annual Review of Public Health
>>>    8. BMJ
>>>    9. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
>>>    10. F1000research - if you vote for this this venue please
>>>    specify Gateway / Collection
>>>    11. iScience
>>>    12. bulletin of mathematical biology
>>>    13. Bioinformatics.
>>>
>>>
>>> I ask that each contributor who has a preference among those Journals
>>> reply to all to this message and pick one venue. Please pick only one
>>> considering all aspects of the venue. You are welcome to include your
>>> reasoning, yet vote towards only one venue.  You are welcome to change your
>>> mind - yet only your last vote will count.
>>>
>>> In case of a tie in the number of votes, the venue that got the first
>>> counted vote will be chosen.
>>>
>>> After we select, I will put the work to format the submission towards
>>> that venue and include all necessary submission matters. In case of fees,
>>> those who voted for the venue will be responsible for covering publication
>>> fees.
>>>
>>> At this point I assume no one has any objections to any venues and we
>>> are all ok with submitting this version - so we are just prioritizing
>>> according to the majority of wishes while keeping the process transparent
>>> and giving some incentive to early bird vote.
>>>
>>> If any of my assumptions are not correct, please correct me now!
>>>
>>> This is the best way I think we can create consensus in such a large
>>> group - and consensus is legally necessary for publication.
>>>
>>> I ask that we limit the voting time to approximately one week. So votes
>>> should be cast by 1am April 16th CDT.
>>>
>>> I will send another reminder during this week, yet I assume one week is
>>> sufficient to make a simple choice of prefered venue and those not voting
>>> elect to abstain from choosing and prefer the majority choice.
>>>
>>> I look forward to your votes.
>>>
>>>             Jacob
>>>
>>>
>>>
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> --
> James A. Glazier
> Indiana University
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