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== How the Editorial Committee Functions ==
The Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee works much as Code4Lib does: informally and collaboratively. For each issue, one member of the Editorial Committee (EC) volunteers to be Coordinating Editor (i.e., managing editor) of a journal issue. For the duration of their tenure, the Coordinating Editor is generally responsible for tying any loose ends tying, and making sure everything proceeds smoothly, coordinating all of the rest of us. This includes distributing the call for papers, communicating with potential authors, opening and closing editorial committee voting on submissions, notifying authors of rejected articles, and making sure that accepted articles have volunteer editors (and that those editors notify authors of accepted articles). The Coordinating Editor is also responsible for writing an introductory editorial and publishing the journal issue.
Everyone on the EC may is expected to vote on article proposals as they come in. The Coordinating Editor generally sets a deadline of 1-2 weeks for voting. Voting is straightforward and recorded in the Article Tracking spreadsheet. An article must have at least two 'yes' votes and two more 'yes' votes than 'no' votes to be accepted. Once an article is accepted for publication, an EC member volunteers members may volunteer to take on editorial responsibility be the primary editor or second reader for that an article as during the first editorvoting process or once voting is completed. The first primary editor shepherds takes on the responsibility of shepherding the article from proposal to publication, acting as the journal's single point of contact with the author. Each article also has a The second editor/reader, who for an article serves as another pair of eyes early in the process by reading and providing feedback on drafts. Most Committee members are generally expected to take primary responsibility for about one article per issue and serve as second reader on another one, though the committee is large enough that there is usually some flexibility with editorial responsibility.
Editing an article includes making sure the article draft is submitted on time, distributing drafts to the full committee for comment, making editorial suggestions or recommendations to the author(s), tracking and enforcing submission deadlines, requesting full Editorial Committee approval of the final draft, and inputting the finished article into our [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_Editorial_Committee_Introduction#Wordpress_.28Required.29 WordPress site]. Once the assigned editor recommends the final draft for publication, the EC again votes on whether to include that article in the current issue. Again, this requires at least two 'yes' votes and more 'yes' votes than 'no' votes for publication. We do not expect every EC member to vote on every article, but we do ask that you read an article thoroughly before voting on it for inclusion in the issue.
