2011Q3 Reports: Journal Editor - Revision history

RobertDale at 23:26, 13 June 2011

2011-06-13T23:26:05Z

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 	Submissions
 See the attached tables for submission statistics for 2009, 2010 and
@@ Line 32: / Line 34: @@
 its submission deadline to September 30th.
 	Administrative Matters

RobertDale at 23:23, 13 June 2011

2011-06-13T23:23:28Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:23, 13 June 2011
Line 22:		Line 22:

	See the attached tables for submission statistics for 2009, 2010 and		See the attached tables for submission statistics for 2009, 2010 and
	2011 so far. [[Media:Submissions2011H1.pdf]]		2011 so far. [[Media:Submissions2011H1.pdf]]; [[Media:Countries2011H1.pdf]]

	As noted in the last report, we are receiving an increasing number of		As noted in the last report, we are receiving an increasing number of

RobertDale at 23:22, 13 June 2011

2011-06-13T23:22:52Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:22, 13 June 2011
Line 22:		Line 22:

	See the attached tables for submission statistics for 2009, 2010 and		See the attached tables for submission statistics for 2009, 2010 and
	2011 so far. [[Media:Submissions2011H1.~~ogg~~]]		2011 so far. [[Media:Submissions2011H1.pdf]]

	As noted in the last report, we are receiving an increasing number of		As noted in the last report, we are receiving an increasing number of

RobertDale at 23:22, 13 June 2011

2011-06-13T23:22:25Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:22, 13 June 2011
Line 22:		Line 22:

	See the attached tables for submission statistics for 2009, 2010 and		See the attached tables for submission statistics for 2009, 2010 and
	2011 so far.		2011 so far. [[Media:Submissions2011H1.ogg]]

	As noted in the last report, we are receiving an increasing number of		As noted in the last report, we are receiving an increasing number of

RobertDale at 23:20, 13 June 2011

2011-06-13T23:20:45Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:20, 13 June 2011
Line 1:		Line 1:
	CL Journal Report for First Half-Year 2011		CL Journal Report for First Half-Year 2011
	Robert Dale, Editor
	Monday 13th June 2011		Robert Dale, Editor, Monday 13th June 2011

	1 Summary		1 Summary

RobertDale: New page: CL Journal Report for First Half-Year 2011 Robert Dale, Editor Monday 13th June 2011 1 Summary Mid-year results tell the same story as at the end of last year: our submissions are up, wi...

2011-06-13T23:20:10Z

New page: CL Journal Report for First Half-Year 2011 Robert Dale, Editor Monday 13th June 2011 1 Summary Mid-year results tell the same story as at the end of last year: our submissions are up, wi...

New page

CL Journal Report for First Half-Year 2011
Robert Dale, Editor
Monday 13th June 2011

1 Summary

Mid-year results tell the same story as at the end of last year: our
submissions are up, with our half-year total suggesting we'll match
last year's submission count of 78, which was up from 69 in the
previous year. An attached spreadsheet provides the detailed
breakdown.

So far, this year's reviewing turnaround time is also tracking well,
at around 58 days.

Our last few journal issues have been larger than in the past. Of
course, this costs us more. It is not clear that the present funding
model is sustainable, and attention should be directed to how we
address this.

2 Submissions

See the attached tables for submission statistics for 2009, 2010 and
2011 so far.

As noted in the last report, we are receiving an increasing number of
submissions that are considered to be inappropriate for CL.

We have two special issues in the pipeline: one on Modality and
Negation, for which submissions have closed and 23 papers received,
and one on Parsing Morphologically-Rich Languages, which has extended
its submission deadline to September 30th.

3 Administrative Matters

As of the beginning of 2011, the editorial assistance role is now
solely carried out by Suzy Howlett. Mary Gardiner has been separately
contracted to do some work on extending the functionalities of the
Open Journal Systems manuscript management software that we use.
Efficiencies gained here have freed up some of Suzy's time; she has
been working on compiling a recommended set of LaTeX packages, and on
updating our style guide.

As always, running the journal would be impossible without the help of
both Suzy and Mary.

4 Upcoming Changes

The journal is growing, although not massively. However, given the
other changes in ACL's publication practices that are under
discussion, now may be a good time to reassess the journal's financial
model. Since going open access, the journal has been funded via the
ACL's central budget, and therefore from a combination of membership
fees and conference surpluses. This model does not scale well. One
way forward would be to put in place publication charges.

----End