GUIDELINES for Editors

Central responsibility will rest with the Executive Editor, John Linehan and Managing Editor, Christine Kurihara, both from Stanford University. Abigail Garner serves as an Assistant Managing Editor at Stanford.

Paul Yock serves as Founding Editor for the portal and head of the Advisory Board and Editorial Board.

We plan to establish an editorial board of 4 additional faculty; Russ Altman, Professor of Bioinformatics from Stanford University is on the editorial board.

An Advisory Board of 3 members has been established. John Abele, Founder-Chairman of Boston Scientific, William Brody, President, Johns Hopkins University and Martha Gray from MIT will serve on the board.

Major editorial responsibility will reside with the faculty who monitor and maintain each section, called Senior Editor. A university will be assigned its section(s) for three years and then have the option to rotate to a new section. The university and faculty members responsible for each section will be identified at the top-level screen for that section, creating visibility and accountability.

The next level of editorial responsibility is the Associate Editor. This person is responsible for collecting links from their courses – mostly from students who take those courses and who collect links during the development of a project. Associate Editors and students who provide links to the site will be acknowledged in the contributor’s directory.

We anticipate that the Associate Editor will perform the bulk of the work of collecting links. This person will then submit those once or twice a year (depending on how often students complete this type of class). Once all links have been entered onto the submission page, the submit button will send the links to the Managing Editor.

The next step will be done by central staff. The links submitted will be evaluated and sorted according to the potential Section. Each set of links that are collected for a section will be sent to that Senior Editor for validation and verification. The Senior Editor will verify the each link for value – is this site worth including in bmesource?

The Senior Editor will then select those links worth keeping and resubmit them to the Managing Editor. [for ease of use, this will be done via an online form]

The Managing Editor and team will then populate the site with the links. Once they are populated the Managing Editor will notify the Senior Editor and a final check by the Senior Editor will complete the validation:

• Is the link in the proper Topic and Link Group?
• Does the link still belong, considering the other links within that Link Group?
• Is the link in the right place within the Link Group? (ordered by importance, etc.)

Any and all changes recommended by the Senior Editor can either be done on the site itself, or submitted back to the Managing Editor.

To ensure that all editors use a similar screening process, a list of criteria for link inclusion is provided (see above).

Editorial Hierarchy

Edit Process
The following diagram shows the process of link collection, submission and editing:

More explicitly:

Contribution Recognition

Each editor should place the University name at the bottom of each section they edit as follows:

[Section Name] edited by [University Name]

for instance, Cardiovascular Section edited by Stanford University

Each University will be added to the Contributor Directory (accessible from the Start page and the lower right corner of all other pages). Section Editors and Associate Editors will link to a bio of those persons. (see Stanford University for an example). Students who provide links are named in a separate column titled “Linksters”, but bios are not provided.

Copyright

You may link to sites without obtaining permission but you may not copy or otherwise include any of the site’s content on the bmesource.org site itself unless permission is obtained from the source.