AAPA Publication Survey 2020

The AAPA Executive Committee seeks to gather members’ thoughts regarding the AAPA’s current and future publications. Your responses to this survey will help inform the Executive Committee as we evaluate our current publications (the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology) and look toward the future. Our current contract with Wiley Publishing ends in December 2020, so now is the perfect time to hear your thoughts about the AJPA and YPA, publishing an official journal of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and future directions that we might explore.

IMPORTANT: The AAPA does not own the AJPA, although it has been the official journal of the association since the inception of the AAPA. Historically, this has been a successful arrangement, but each new contract requires careful evaluation, especially in the current publication climate, regarding potential disadvantages to editorial autonomy and journal policy issues, and revenue earned by the AAPA that directly supports our activities. The AAPA is currently renegotiating our contract with Wiley to publish the AJPA.

Please fill in the following survey. Questions are grouped within three categories, the first providing general and anonymous information about you, the second relating to editorial policies, and the third relating to publication policies. Please read the questions in their entirety as there may be contingencies.

What category of AAPA member are you?

Student

Special

Regular

Regular member includes qualifying for Contingent/PostDoc, Retired, and Qualifying Country membership fees

Have you published your research in the AJPA?

Yes

Have you published your research in other peer-reviewed journals?

Yes

Have you served as a reviewer for the AJPA?

Yes

How important to you is a double-blind system for reviews?

Not at all important

Somewhat important

Important

Very important

Extremely important

i.e., authors do not know the identity of reviewers and reviewers do not know the identity of authors. Please note that Associate Editors & the Editor-in-Chief must know the identity of authors

In your opinion, what percent of AJPA should be research articles?

This and the following four category percentages should add up to 100

What percent of AJPA should be critical reviews?

What percent of AJPA should be technical notes?

What percent of AJPA should be invited commentaries?

What percent of AJPA should be book reviews?

How important is it to you that the AAPA owns its publication venues?

Not at all important

Somewhat important

Important

Very important

Extremely important

Note: The AAPA owns the Yearbook, while Wiley owns the AJPA

Why is AAPA ownership of it publication venue(s) important (or not) to you?

Are you comfortable with the AAPA cutting ties with the AJPA and launching a new journal?

Yes

Note: This would mean that the AJPA would not be the official journal of the Association and that AAPA members may have access to the AJPA content through their institutions.

Are you comfortable with the AAPA launching a new society-owned journal that would complement our Yearbook (the AJPA would still be published by Wiley but without our input and members would access Wiley's AJPA through their institution)?

Yes

How important is it that AAPA publication venues be solely open access? Realize that “gold” open access would incur article publication fees for every contributor.

Not at all important

Somewhat important

Important

Very important

Extremely important

If AAPA publication venues were gold open access, should the AAPA subsidize article publication fees (APF) in part or in full for Association members? This might result in increased membership dues and/or changes to other AAPA-supported initiatives.

Full member subsidy

Partial member subsidy

No member subsidy

How important is it that AAPA publication venues provide access to a data repository?

Not at all important

Somewhat important

Important

Very important

Extremely important

How important is it that journal access is provided as a benefit of AAPA membership?

Not at all important

Somewhat important

Important

Very important

Extremely important

Are there other thoughts or comments you’d like to share with us?