[vsnet-chat 7736] Re: Open European Journal on Variable Stars

[Ivan Andronov]

There are 20+ papers submitted to OEJV during this time, 
which got referee comments (7 referees) and expected to be re-submitted soon.
Unfortunately, many of the authors neglect the main rules of the OEJV:
For the discovery paper (especially), the information should contain all fields needed for the "General Catalogue of Variable Stars": co-ordinates, classification, period and initial epoch (if periodic), eclipse duration D for the Algols or duration of the ascending branch M-m for the pulsating variables, range of brightness variations with a reference for the instrumental system and the comparison stars. 

Additionally, the finding chart is expected with marked variable and (multiple) comparison stars.
Also the tables of the original photometric observations as an electronic Appendix, or (if data mining) a direct link to these data.

THe paper is to be clearly written with references/links to the used methods/programs/papers.

The rest is according to the author.
So no extraordinary wishes, but an attempt to make papers by amateurs useful to the Pro-Am community.


Unfortunately, some of the authors prefer to resubmit a paper to an amateur journal without taking into account the fruitful referee comments. 

We expect a series of interesting papers after improving.

The OEJV is referred in the ADS, but, unfortunately, not in the SIMBAD, as well as a huge amount of high-level journals listed in the ADS.

So welcome to the "Open European Journal on Variable Stars", 
which freely publishes professional and amateur papers from authors from and outside Europe!

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> I have only just noticed that the Open European Journal on Variable Stars has only published 1 article since April 2011 and that the published links to Simbad that appear at http://var.astro.cz/oejv/oejv.php?lang=en  don't work for many of the listed objects.
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> Martin Nicholson - Shropshire, UK