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NHERI Council:<br>
<br>
I am following up on the subject matter, as we agreed at yesterday's
Council meeting, and<br>
have the following two items for your attention. <br>
<br>
<b>Ellen:</b> the Council agreed with the timeline for submitting
the manuscript of January 2020. This<br>
would allow FBE to have the review done and the collection published
by July 2020. Is DesignSafe<br>
ok with this? Your facility was not represented at the meeting, and
this is your opportunity to express<br>
your view.<br>
<br>
1. <b>Topic Editorial Board</b>- these are individuals who will
handle the editorial work on the<br>
manuscript that you will submit for the E-book on NHERI. These will
consist of 4 to 6 members, <br>
including myself. <br>
I will serve as the lead Topic Editor, so that I am able to
coordinate the submissions and<br>
have full access to FBE management platform for the collection. I
will not be involved in handling the <br>
review process of the manuscripts, but through the management
platform, I will be able to see all<br>
submitted manuscripts and their progress in review. A manuscript
submitted by the NCO will be <br>
reviewed by an External Editor from FBE.<br>
<br>
<i><b>Would you please provide possible name(s) to serve as topic
editors?</b></i> The members of<br>
the board should be free of conflict of interest with NHERI.
Conflicts of Interest (COI) to be avoided <br>
between the editors and authors to consider when nominating members
of the Topic Editorial Board <br>
can be: <br>
<ul>
<li>Shared Institutions</li>
<li>Collaborations in the past two years (co-authoring, project
collaboration)</li>
<li>Close personal/family relationships.</li>
</ul>
I will compile your input and propose a group to the Council before
submitting to FBE. If we do not<br>
provide names FBE would propose editors from their broader editorial
group. <br>
<br>
2. <b>FBE invoicing</b>: <i><b>please provide me with </b></i><i><b>the
name and contact information at your institution</b></i> of<br>
the representative that should receive the invoice for the 15% of
$1900 for your manuscript publication <br>
in this open source journal.<br>
<br>
I have a call scheduled with FBE on <b>August 7</b>. It would be
great to have the two items ready by then.<br>
Look forward to hearing from you,<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Julio<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Julio Ramirez, Ph.D.
Karl H. Kettelhut Professor in Civil Engineering
Director, NHERI-NCO Center
Lyles School of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
(765) 430-7853</pre>
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