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Oct 27, 2014, 4:39:49 PM10/27/14
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Dear all,

Please see the email below from Guy regarding the possibility of a special issue at Frontiers.

best wishes,

Juan

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Juan Pablo Bello
Associate Professor, Music Technology
New York University










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From: Guy Madison <guy.m...@umu.se>
Subject: Reply from Frontiers for dissemination
Date: October 27, 2014 at 7:21:54 PM GMT+1
To: Juan Bello <jb2...@nyu.edu>

Dear all,
 
As you may remember, I proposed that Frontiers in Psychology might be a possible outlet for papers from the conference, and Juan asked me to contact Frontiers to find out whether such a topic would be feasible.
 
It took until today to receive a reply, and it seems it got a kind of standard letter. No specifics about the title of the Topic, special pricing etc.
 
However un-informative, we must conclude that they are at least not against it, and also that they must consider it feasible (since I indicated the circumstances).
 
The publication fees are E 770 if corresponding author is an editor/co-editor, and E 960 in other cases (i.e. most of the contributors). I think we could minimize the total cost somewhat by (1) making many, and strategically chosen, authors associate editors, and (2) make sure that they are corresponding authors on al papers they have co-authored.
 
(For comparison, the regular fee is E 1,600).
 
From the communications over the last two weeks I gather that I am among the least suitable as editor/co-editor, since many others are apparently collaborating on papers. I would at best contribute with one paper, and probably not with that many co-authors.
 
Those of you who are unfamiliar with Frontiers can find a bunch of links to information in the mail below. I recently edited a Topic, and I am overall rather satisfied with the experience.
 
Best, Guy
 
 
From: Frontiers in Psychology [mailto:psycholo...@frontiersin.org] 
Sent: den 27 oktober 2014 16:47
To: Guy Madison
Subject: Re: Possible new Topic?
 
Dear Dr. Madison,
 
Thank you for your positive response and my sincere apologies for my the delay in my reply.
 
Frontiers Research Topics aim at bringing researchers and their publications together to create a comprehensive online resource for the research community, highlighting recent developments and providing a forum for areas of novelty or debate. This unique platform can be updated as new developments are added to the field, making it an open-access resource of peer-reviewed articles that remains relevant for the scientific community.
 
Research Topics have a dedicated homepage for managing contributions, communicating with authors and facilitating post-publication feedback from the research community. Frontiers articles are published immediately after acceptance, and are subject to a fast, objective and transparent peer-review process.
 
You can participate in various ways depending on your editorial experience. You can find more information here.
 
You can find out more from our short video - "It's an excellent platform to combine different expertise from different areas" - Markus Geisler, Chief Editor with Frontiers.
 
As a Topic Editor of a Frontiers Research Topic, you would essentially be acting as the handling editor for submitted manuscripts without necessarily submitting a manuscript yourself. The Frontiers platform is highly automated and makes it very easy to manage your Research Topic. The time frame for this project varies from 6 to 9 months and it is entirely up to you to decide when to initiate the process. Furthermore, you are free to define the theme and scope of your Research Topic as you see it. 
 
In our experience the most successful Research Topics have a team of two or three Topic Editors, including at least one senior researcher (Associate Professor level or above) and one or two early-career scientists (Post-doc level or above) with significant editorial experience. All Topic Editors must hold at least a PhD degree. This helps to make the call for participation appeal to a broader spectrum of researchers, with the combination of recognized names in the field and highly collaborative and active researchers attached to the Topic.
 
A diverse team of Topic Editors also helps to prevent potential conflicts of interest (COI) during the review process. This can also be avoided by requesting one of the Frontiers associate editors to edit manuscripts with a potential COI. To find out more about our review process, please follow thislink (Conflict of Interest). For all cases where you are either not sure how to proceed or where you feel there is a potential COI you should immediately contact us.
Please note that your intended co-Topic Editors must agree to participate and should also register in the Frontiers website.
 
To initiate this project I encourage you to:
1. Read our guidelines on how to organize a Research Topic and to browse our list of existing Research Topics before you write your proposal in order to avoid significant overlap.
2. Prepare your Research Topic proposal. For that you should fill in this form and send it back to me at your best convenience. In this form, please consider:

- Title and Description: compelling and concise, no longer than 500 words (no references needed).

- Deadline for manuscript submission: we usually suggest 1-2 months for the abstracts plus 4-6 months for the manuscripts, but you are free to decide on this time frame.

- Specialty section: select one of the Sections under the Psychology field (or any other you prefer). Here is an example of a Section: Cultural Psychology. In case you have doubts about the most suitable Section, please read each Section's "Mission Statement" (please consider the previous link also as an example).

- Potential Contributors: Please fill in the following excel template with a minimum of 15-20 potential contributors who would be likely to submit an article to your Topic once it is officially accepted online. The following fields are required: email address, first name and last name. This list should allow your Research Topic to receive at least 10-15 manuscripts. Note that you do not have to contact these people at this stage, only after your topic has been accepted.

If your Research Topic publishes 10 or more articles, we will create a free open-access e-book.
 
Frontiers is an open-access publisher - Therefore, please keep in mind that authors will be asked to pay a publishing fee - standard for open-access journals - that are discounted for authors participating in a Frontiers Research Topic. Please note that there are various solutions for barriers to publication costs as well as free articles that authors may consider. 
 
If you have any questions or concerns, please do email me. I look forward to hearing back from you shortly.
 
Have a great day!
All the best,
 
​Frontiers Research Topics​
Editorial Project Manager
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Frontiers Research Topics Psychology <psychology.r...@frontiersin.org> wrote:

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Guy Madison <Guy.M...@psy.umu.se>
Date: 18 October 2014 13:08
Subject: Possible new Topic?
To: Frontiers in Psychology <psychology.r...@frontiersin.org>

Dear Topic team,
I am reaching out on behalf of the attendants at the University of New York at Abu Dhabi recent Rhythm workshop:https://sites.google.com/site/nyurhythmworkshop2014/program
There were 20-30 attendants who were interested in disseminating their work in some kind of special issue, and I suggested that Frontiers in Psychology (and some of the subsections) might be suitable for this.
An important and critical question that arised was whether the quite interdisciplinary nature of the workshop would be possible to accommodate in one and the same journal, considering that participants have their backgrounds in computer science, engineering, musicology, psychology, neuroscience, ethnology, and maybe some more disciplines. To this I could not provide a certain answer, but it is my impression that Frontiers in Psychology should be rather wide in its scope, as a reflection of the field of psychology itself. Concerning disciplines within the humanities, such as musicology and ethnology, it is true that they may deviate even from this wide scope. This is less common within the area of rhythm research, however, because this is naturally very strongly empirical.
If you would be amenable to this, we would be interested in naming the Topic in such a way as to reflect the common origin of the papers, maybe something like “Cross-Disciplinary and Multi-Cultural Perspectives on Musical Rhythm and Improvisation -University of New York at Abu Dhabi Rhythm Workshop”. Probably too long, but you get the idea.
 
Sincerely
Guy
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Dr. Guy Madison
Professor of Psychology

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