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Thomas N. Wise, MD
Motion Passed in Spring Council Meeting, Budapest, March 2007
Revised during the Summer Council Meeting, Alexandria, June 2007
Motion: Journal oversight shall be conducted by an ad hoc committee,
called the Journal Committee, for a period of three years. In three years,
Council will choose whether to transition this, or a revised structure,
into a standing committee.
The ad-hoc journal
committee shall have the following composition and responsibilities:
- Scope of
authority. The Committee will act in an advisory capacity to Council.
The Committee will make recommendations to Council regarding
Journal matters, but final decision-making authority over Journal matters
rests with Council. The Committee shall not set budget levels or enter
into contracts, but will make recommendations about budget to be voted
on by Council.
- Duties of the
Committee shall include: (1) Reviewing the activities of the Editor-in-Chief
and Executive Director (related
to the Journal)
and facilitating open communication and cooperation between them
regarding plans and actions related to both the editorial and business
management
of the Journal; (2) Reviewing any actions that may affect the quality
or independence of the Journal’s scientific content or any allegations
of compromises to the Journal’s editorial independence; (3) Reviewing
any disputes or disagreements regarding the management or operations
of the Journal; (4) Evaluating major initiatives of the Editor-in-Chief
and Executive Director to insure that they are financially, ethically,
and programmatically appropriate; (5) Reviewing and advising Council
on proposals that affect the budget of the Journal; and (6) Reviewing
and advising Council on the Editor-in-Chief’s nominations of
Associate and Statistical Editors, which are subject to ratification
by Council.
(7) Reviewing and advising Council on the Editor-in-Chief’s appointments
of Editorial Board members to ensure adequate representation (i.e.
gender, race, geographic, discipline, and specialty).
- An annual review
of Journal operations will be conducted by the Committee. The Editor-in-Chief
and
the Executive Director will each submit a report
of Journal-related goals and progress toward these goals over the past
year both to the Council and to the Committee. The Committee will review
these reports and evaluate the progress of the Journal in a report
to Council. This report will be written by committee members other
than
the Editor or Executive Director.
- The Committee shall
consist of 5 voting members. These include the Editor-in-Chief (Ex
Officio, nonvoting), Executive
Director (Ex Officio,
nonvoting), and/or Associate Executive Director (Ex Officio, nonvoting),
and five voting members: one member of the Executive Committee (to
be chosen by the president), one member of Council who is not on the
Executive
Committee and who is not an Associate Editor of Psychosomatic Medicine,
and 3 members at large, who are APS members and not members of Council
or Associate Editors of Psychosomatic Medicine, who have experience
in journal editorship and/or scientific publishing. Any nonvoting member
may designate a representative to attend in his or her place. Committee
members will serve 3-year terms. Members may be reappointed for a second
term.
- Any member of
APS may nominate members at large with experience in journal editorship
and/or scientific publishing to serve on the Committee.
Appointment of these nominees, and of the Council’s representative
to the Committee, shall be determined by a majority vote of the Council.
The current President of the Society shall consult with the Editor-in-Chief
and Executive Director on the presidential appointment of one of the
members of the Committee to serve as its Chair (which is not the Editor
or Executive Director).
- Revisions to the
Bylaws may be appropriate if this committee is transitioned to a standing
committee.
Thomas N. Wise MD
Inova Fairfax Hospital
3300 Gallows Road
Falls Church, VA 22042
Ph: 7037763626
Fx: 7036983029
Thomas.wise@Inova.org
Committee Members
Matthew F. Muldoon, MD, MPH
Susan S. Girdler, PhD
Karen A. Matthews, PhD
Douglas Drossman, MD
George Degnon, CAE, Executive Director
Laura Degnon, CAE, Associate Executive Director
David Sheps, MD, MPH, Psychosomatic Medicine Editor
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