RE: [Brahms-l] Fw: White Paper Publication Action Item

Flemming-
I agree entirely with your evaluation of white
paper publication problem (wppp).

                      Chellis

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Chellis Chasman
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[mailto:brahms-l-bounces@lists.bnl.gov]On Behalf Of flemming videbaek
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:28 PM
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Subject: [Brahms-l] Fw: White Paper Publication Action Item
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As a follow-up on the white paper t.kirk took the first step to see if
Mo.Rev.phys would be interested in the
output of the white-papers. The result of Tom's investigations is given
below. I will like to recieve comments from the white-paper commitee member,
the institutions and in general.
My own impression is that this is not the best forum for  the wp, in
particular writting a joint summary (with `1K scientists) seems hardly
feasible, and our contributions would be diminishe greaty

best regards
flemming



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Flemming Videbaek
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk, Tom" <tkirk@bnl.gov>
To: "Baker, Mark" <Mark.Baker@bnl.gov>; "Busza, Wit" <busza@mit.edu>;
"Hallman, Tim" <Hallman@bnl.gov>; "Videbaek, Flemming" <videbaek@bnl.gov>;
"Zajc, Bill" <zajc@nevis.columbia.edu>
Cc: "Aronson, Sam" <aronson2@bnl.gov>; "Kirk, Tom" <tkirk@bnl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:32 PM
Subject: White Paper Publication Action Item


> . June 17, 2004
>
> RHIC Colleagues:
>
> I took an action item on Monday afternoon
> to explore APS publishing venues for the
> white papers.  Not surprisingly, the
> natural choice emerged as Reviews of Modern
> Physics (RMP) when I discussed this topic with
> Marty Blume, Editor in Chief of the APS
> journals.  He urged me to contact Tony
> Starace, the editor of the 'Colloquium'
> section of the RMP.  I succeeded in reaching
> Tony today by phone and he confirmed that
> recent RHIC results would likely be a good
> topic for the 'Colloquium' section of RMP.
>
> As is often the case, there was not a
> perfect match with what we imagined as we
> discussed this on Monday.  In particular,
> he pointed me to the appropriate website
>    http://rmp.aps.org/ from which you
> proceed to 'Colloquium Guidelines' and then
> to 'Colloquium Submissions', to find the
> conditions for RMP publication.  These do not
> match to 4 serial papers of the length we
> saw on Monday.
>
> Tony suggested that it would be appropriate,
> for engaging the serious general scientific
> reader, to submit a single article of not more
> than 20 RMP pages, hopefully written by one or
> two authors who would be selected for their
> writing skills and who would credit all the
> members of the Collaborations.
>
> Tony also noted that an alternate review venue
> is an archival type of review that is intended
> for the expert in the field.  I don't think
> this second review is what we are talking
> about.  Each collaboration can, on their own,
> organize and produce such an expert review
> if they wish to do this.  It would not be
> appropriate for RMP as I heard it today.
>
> >From this information, I suggest that each
> of you think about the feasibility of taking
> our first concept of a 4-5 page summary paper,
> followed by the four white papers, and
> substitute a single article of 15 +/- 5 pages
> that would summarize the results so far for
> the general scientific reader.  This would go
> beyond Tom and Lary's Physics Today article
> by presenting sufficient detail to actually
> show in some detail (text and graphs) what has
> been learned so far.  Consult the URLs above.
>
> I promised Tony to consult with you and get back
> to him next week.  This email is intended to
> initiate that consultation.  Please respond
> in a timely way.
>
> Thanks, Tom
>


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