<aside> 🚀 Thank you already for considering nominating yourself to become a JSys assistant editor!
We are lucky to work with a great community, and we could use some extra pairs of hands to help us serve that community even better.
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JSys is a diamond open-access journal, which means “free to read & free to publish” for everyone, forever. For more details about the motivation behind its creation, please refer to this blog post.
The journal has been running for more than two years. We have already published a handful of papers and got indexed in DBLP! The University of California Library supports us for publishing-related matters, but we control and manage the entire editorial process, that is, helping authors to improve their manuscripts and advertise their research. The journal is entirely managed by volunteer researchers. And we are looking for some support. 😀
JSys is looking for two to three persons to serve as “assistant editors,” whose main tasks are to keep track of the editorial process for papers submitted to the journal. Concretely, that means checking that all steps are carried out in due time and tracking the process into our journal management system, built using Notion.
It represents a lightweight workload ( <1h/week, with bursts around JSys’ submission deadlines). The initial commitment would be for one year.
Note that assistant editors are not responsible for the paper decisions (this is handled by JSys’ Area Chairs).
By serving as JSys assistant editor, you will
A priori, we are looking for people that