Bimonthly Publication

In the next year or so, Cognitive Science will increase the number of issues published per year from four to six. We believe that increasing the number of issues will increase the vitality of the Journal, as will the other changes suggested earlier. Thus, we expect to see submissions increase significantly. To ensure that the Journal can fill six issues, however, the following strategies may be pursued during the first year or two of the new model:

(a) The editorial staff solicits one or two special issues per year.
(b) The editorial staff actively solicits papers from researchers performing interdisciplinary research of interest to the Journal's readership.
(c) The editorial staff identifies outstanding Proceedings articles that could be expanded into effective Journal articles and recruits such articles.
(d) Action editors provide target deadlines to authors for submitting revisions, accompanied by estimated publication dates, thereby speeding the publication process, and increasing the number of manuscripts available for publication.
(e) The Society and Elsevier aggressively advertise the new format for the Journal, making it clear that we will be speeding the publication process and publishing more articles. Specific forms of advertising include:

• mailings to members of the Cognitive Science Society
• editorials in the Journal articles in association newspapers (e.g., APA Monitor, APS Observer)
• Elsevier advertisements in journals throughout the cognitive sciences free issues mailed to non-members who would be good contributor

Moving to bimonthly publication will require an increase in subscription rates. As we discussed at the 1999 board meeting, the Society has not raised membership rates for years. Thus, doing so now is reasonable, especially if members receive additional issues per year and have more opportunity to publish.