National Scholarly Editors Forum (NSEF)
To date, the Forum has held three very successful and well-attended meetings of editors of national scholarly journals (July 2007, October 2008 and June 2009). These meetings have, inter alia, had the following significant outcomes:
(a) A mandate was given to sustain the Forum as a consultative and advisory body managed by the Academy; suitable terms of reference for a National Scholarly Editors’ Forum were drafted and adopted;
(b) A National Code of Best Practice in Editorial Discretion and Peer Review was drafted and adopted;
(c) A mandate was given for the envisaged quality assurance regimen of the Academy, based on peer review of discipline-grouped titles.
Plenary consultations were also held on many key topics such as copyright issues, open access conversion, open source software, and economies of scale in publishing logistics.
