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authors (regardless of the mechanism) does not accrue costs to the journal. The consensus was to keep allowing authors to purchase reprints at anytime. There was a discussion on establishing an award for high-impact articles and a recommendation will be made to the Executive Board to establish this type of award. There was also a discussion about making accepted, but not published papers, available online prior to publication. It was thought that prepublication access might help increase the impact factor by providing more access to articles. However, the question of accepting a publication but not receiving payment for the page charges was raised. IAFP staff agreed to investigate a system to implement prepublication access to reviewed and accepted manuscripts. The submission of microarray data, gene sequence data, and strains of microorganisms used in studies was discussed. The raw data from microarray studies and gene sequences should be deposited in the appropriate database (e.g., GEO), and guidance to authors to state this in the Materials and Methods section of papers will be issued. A checkbox on the submission form or added language to the instructions to authors will be used. Also, authors will be strongly encouraged to make strains available to other investigators. A sub-committee was reappointed (pending Executive Board approval) to examine membership attitudes about modifying subscription rates, page charges, and feasibility of making JFP completely online. This sub-committee, if approved, will consist of Mark Harrison, Kendra Nightingale and John Bassett. Julian Cox will facilitate this effort by providing a similar recently completed survey to assess Food Protection Trends’ readers attitudes. Information Items to the board: 1. 2. The policy on plagiarism reviewed by the Committee in spring 2010 has been added to the Instructions to Authors. Instructions to authors will be modified to address the following issues: (a) deposition of microarray data and gene sequences into appropriate database catalogs, and to include accession numbers in the materials and methods of submitted manuscripts, (b) authors will be encouraged to make available and share microorganisms in their studies to requesting parties. The subcommittee, originally appointed in 2009, should develop and implement a survey this year to assess the attitude of journal readers regarding journal publication avenues (e.g., print vs. online, online access, and electronic publication ahead of print). Reappoint Elliot Ryser as Scientific Editor for another four-year term. Approve the election of Kendra Nightingale as Vice Chair. The journal should establish a mechanism for allowing online prepublication access of accepted manuscripts ahead of print through JFP online and should develop an appropriate mechanism to bill page charges for online publication ahead of print. A mechanism for providing open access should be established for manuscripts to be supported by funds from the contributing authors. Over the next year the process will be tested for manuscripts requiring publication in open access journals, such as NIH funded research. The IAFP staff will investigate the additional fees necessary for open access. In addition, the journal should consider providing funds to allow open access for a limited number (3–4 per year) of general interest, high merit/impact papers selected by the co-Editors.

A Top Publication award should be developed for the most cited articles.

Next Meeting Date: IAFP 2011 Annual Meeting. Meeting adjourned: 12:05 p.m. Chairperson: Margaret Hardin.

Program Committee
Members Present: Lou Tortorello, Faye Feldstein, Randy Phebus, Lee-Ann Jaykus, Joshua Gurtler, Vijay Juneja, Lori Ledenbach, Paula Fedora-Cray, Eric Martin, Kali Kniel, Mindy Brashears, Scott Hood, Isabel Walls, David Tharp, Lisa Hovey, Terri Haffner and Alejandro Mazzotta. Members absent: Purnendu Vasavada and Maria Teresa Destro. Meeting Called to order: 7:15 a.m., Wednesday, August 4. recording secretary: Terri Haffner. old business: The meeting was called to order by Randy Phebus. Lee-Ann Jaykus (IAFP President-Elect) asked the committee to consider 100 year ideas for the 2011 meeting. She is chairing the 100 Year Celebration Committee for the Executive Board. Faye Feldstein (chair, 2010) thanked the committee members for their effort and being innovative, in particular, Kali Kniel, as she is rotating off. She introduced new members Mindy Breashears, Joshua Gurtler, and Lou Tortorello (assigned to a second term). Randy Phebus (chair, 2011) thanked Faye for her hard work the past year. Good quality program. Isabel Walls is the new Board liaison. Randy introduced Terri Haffner who is the new IAFP staff person who is our organization liaison. Randy went through the IAFP Anti-trust policy. New business: Randy went through the mission/activities of the Program Committee for the benefit of new members, and the timeline for developing the 2011 meeting technical program. November conference call will occur. Send an E-mail for availability on selected days (discuss with David and Lisa). Symposia – set up the review center so the committee can score them online prior to November call. Communications will come to all committee members via E-mail on the evaluation process and timeline. This year we need to document notes well so we can let rejected symposia, or symposia that the committee suggests significant revisions or reformatting, know with more detail what the committee discussed or felt. Sometimes more than one PDG sponsors a symposium. Sometimes it is not a PDG that submits. In Scholar One we need to allow for those things. Try to encourage short symposia so that more proposals can be accepted, but not at the expense of symposia quality. People are already developing long symposia, so it may not work for this year. The committee discussed ideas for types of preferred speakers and potential names for the Ivan Parkin and Silliker Lectures for the 2011 meeting. These ideas will be forwarded to the Executive Board. 2010 Meeting recap: Lori Ledenbach – is there a way to get more detail on speakers within each symposium in advance of the meeting to help with companies/individuals putting together travel plans? Itinerary planner link will be placed on the IAFP Web site. Paula Fedorka-Cray – 2nd ILSI symposium. The title was wrong. Not good attendance.

recommendations to Executive board: 1. 2. 3.

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