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Rivkin · 6th June 2006, 08:54 AM

First of all, I doubt that there is a single large post-2003 publication journal in most modern university libraries that is not in the electronic form, i.e. I exagarate, but electronic publishing is a standard today.

Second, it is easy to find a "real" editor - a somewhat young,overly ambitious gentleman preferrably with a history or art Ph.D., who would like to have "blah-blah,blah-blah editor" on his CV.
Plus we will probably need someone really known in the community as a chief editor?
The tough part is to find qualified reviewers. There are a lot of topics for which it is impossible to find a good reviewer. I can write a review on magnetism since I am a reviewer at the corresponding IEEE section, but I am of too poor knowledge to be a review for anything else, am not I ?

However we may opt for the usual - reviewer not being from exactly the field of the submitted article, but simply someone who is respected in the community. He will check that the article looks ok, and then it is up to the author to swim with his work

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On the other hand, I can't honestly say that big journals are doing any better job with respect to arms and armour - they often publish extremely strange ideas.

Finding authors is also tough - I mean even if we are to publish forum's ideas someone has to catalogue it and to write an introduction. Most of the research we do is looking at the stuff we bought, reading books, books and books, interrupted by googling around - nothing wrong with that, but how to avoid publishing essentially reprints from Astvatzaturjan ?

Last, but not least - ARMA, Oakeshott institute publications, Journals of arms collecting... We have some competition here, altough it is really strange that there is no arms and armour international journal per se... May be we really need to make one.

6th June 2006, 08:54 AM	#7
Rivkin Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 655	First of all, I doubt that there is a single large post-2003 publication journal in most modern university libraries that is not in the electronic form, i.e. I exagarate, but electronic publishing is a standard today. Second, it is easy to find a "real" editor - a somewhat young,overly ambitious gentleman preferrably with a history or art Ph.D., who would like to have "blah-blah,blah-blah editor" on his CV. Plus we will probably need someone really known in the community as a chief editor? The tough part is to find qualified reviewers. There are a lot of topics for which it is impossible to find a good reviewer. I can write a review on magnetism since I am a reviewer at the corresponding IEEE section, but I am of too poor knowledge to be a review for anything else, am not I ? However we may opt for the usual - reviewer not being from exactly the field of the submitted article, but simply someone who is respected in the community. He will check that the article looks ok, and then it is up to the author to swim with his work . On the other hand, I can't honestly say that big journals are doing any better job with respect to arms and armour - they often publish extremely strange ideas. Finding authors is also tough - I mean even if we are to publish forum's ideas someone has to catalogue it and to write an introduction. Most of the research we do is looking at the stuff we bought, reading books, books and books, interrupted by googling around - nothing wrong with that, but how to avoid publishing essentially reprints from Astvatzaturjan ? Last, but not least - ARMA, Oakeshott institute publications, Journals of arms collecting... We have some competition here, altough it is really strange that there is no arms and armour international journal per se... May be we really need to make one.