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                Dear All: Please circulate widely to find the new editors  4S's diamond
open access journal, *Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS)*!

Best, Aalok

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From: amanda...@gmail.com 
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 1:35:21 AM UTC+5:30
Subject: Call for Editorial Team: ESTS
To: sts...@googlegroups.com 


Dear STS Grad,


4S is pleased to announce a search for *a new editor or editorial team* for
our society’s Diamond Open Access journal *Engaging Science, Technology,
and Society*. The current editorial team has done an extraordinary job
furthering the potential of that openness – including through
transformative transnationalisation – and we are keen to find a new editor
or editorial team ready to take the journal forward next. Might that be you
or someone you know?


Please read the call for *Expressions of Interest

*(also
copied below) and please do reach out to the current Editor-in-Chief or
Chair of the Publications Committee with any queries, and submit EoIs for
consideration by *March 31st*.


***

*Publications Call for Nominations and Proposals*

Editor(s), Open-Access Journal *Engaging Science, Technology, and Society*

Society for Social Studies of Science

The Publications Committee of the Society for Social Studies of Science
solicits nominations and proposals for Editor(s) to lead the 4S-sponsored
diamond open access journal, *Engaging Science, Technology, and Society *(
*ESTS* - https://estsjournal.org

). *ESTS* is a vibrant peer-reviewed venue for addressing how science and
technology infuse the world in which we live.

The journal publishes peer-reviewed content in both long-form and
short-form genres: original research articles, thematic collections,
engagements, perspectives, and research data. Content is organized into
three issues annually, and includes work that represents the full range of
4S scholarship.

Thanks to the financial support of the 4S community, ESTS is a Diamond Open
Access

 journal, meaning, it does not charge fees to either authors or readers. We
believe this is significant for knowledge equity as it ensures that authors
and readers around the world can both access and contribute research
outputs to the STS scholarly commons regardless of location or
institutional affiliation. 4S Council envisions *ESTS* and its editorial
leadership will continue playing a formative role in developing and
experimenting with open access scholarly communication. The society
supports the operation of *ESTS* through paid staff, including a Managing
Editor, two Assistant Editors, and an Open Data Editor.

Given the increasing transnational character of STS scholarship, the 4S
Council has a preference for an Editorial Collective that is well placed to
attend to different intellectual traditions, geographic emplacements and
career-stages within the field, as well as a vision for how to support the
growth of transnational scholarship. Additionally, the Editor or the
majority of the members of the Editorial Collective should hold a secure
position at an academic or research institution, demonstrate editorial or
very closely related experience, have strong organizational skills, and
have support from their home institution for editorial tasks. Editorial
duties, selection procedures, and guidelines for institutional support can
be found below.

The editor(s) will be appointed for a 3-year term, which may be renewed for
an additional 2 years.

Evaluation of proposals will begin March 31, 2025.

We welcome expressions of interest and nominations as soon as possible.
Potential candidates are encouraged to talk to the current Editor-in-Chief
Aalok Khandekar (aa...@la.iith.ac.in) about the journal’s operations before
finalizing a proposal. Potential candidates are also welcomed to contact
Publications Committee Chair Nicole Nelson (nicole...@wisc.edu) for advice
on crafting their proposal. For any individuals or small groups who are
interested in *ESTS* editorial work but do not yet have a fully-formed
team, Nelson is happy to facilitate conversations to foster the development
of well-rounded editorial teams.

The formal proposal (preferred length around 2000 words excluding CVs and
narrative bios) should include:

●      A vision statement for the journal in its next phase. The statement
should include a vision for how the editorial team will contribute to 1)
the continued transnationalization of STS scholarship, and 2) sustaining
open access scholarly communication infrastructures for the field.

●      A description of how the editorial team will be structured and how
duties will be distributed (e.g. a board of 5 Associate Editors with
rotating Editor-in-Chief responsibility, or 10 Associate Editors with 2
Editors-in-Chief, etc.). To facilitate consideration of the distribution of
tasks within the editorial team, a list of duties is provided below.

●      CVs and short narrative biographies (approximately 300 words) of
people in the editorial collective, foregrounding relevant experience.

●      A description of the level of committed institutional support for
all involved institutions.

●      Any outstanding questions that might require iterative
communications with the Search Committee.

Selection Process: The Search Committee will review all proposals, and make
a recommendation to the 4S Council. Results of the selection process will
be communicated to proposers no later than April 30, 2025. The preferred
start date for the new Editor(s) is flexible, but a start date in the
second half of 2025 is preferred to allow for a period of overlap between
the incoming Editor(s) and the outgoing Editorial Collective (whose term
will conclude at the end of 2025).

Finalized applications should be submitted to Nicole Senter (
nicole...@wisc.edu). People from groups underrepresented in the Society for
Social Studies of Science are strongly encouraged to apply.

*************************************************************

*Editorial Details and Duties*

*Engaging Science, Technology, and Society*

The Editor(s) should:

●      Have a clear and transparent organizational structure and workflow,
specifying individual responsibilities and ways of working with the
journal’s Managing Editor and other staff.

●      Demonstrate capacity to be responsive to differently situated
authors and intellectual traditions in STS.

●      Include at least one person with expertise in and responsibility for
engagement with the ever-evolving set of issues associated with open access
publishing, providing visible leadership in deliberations about open access.

●      Regularly communicate with an Editorial Board, providing clear
feedback pathways.

●      Publicize and solicit submissions for the journal in appropriate
venues.

●      Develop the look, feel, and format of the journal (including types
of intellectual material that will be represented) in consultation with the
4S Council Publications Committee. 4S seeks an editorial collective with
intellectual vision, creative approaches to presentation, and commitment to
high quality scholarship.

●      Read and make decisions on new manuscripts in a timely manner.
*ESTS*
 receives about 200-250 submissions per year, with a desk rejection rate
between 80-90%. Once a manuscript moves beyond the initial review phase,
the Editor(s) select multiple reviewers for each submission, track
reviewers to ensure timely reviews, and make final acceptance decisions.

●      Encourage authors to make use of the affordances of its digital
mode, incorporating multi-media and born-digital content into their
articles, also soliciting high-quality content in other genres of scholarly
expression (photo essays, debates, review essays, interviews, maps,
conference reviews, etc).

●      Assemble accepted articles and features for publication. The
Managing Editor is responsible for ensuring that revisions are completed in
a timely fashion, according to the Editor(s) recommendations. The Managing
Editor will distribute and advertise the journal.

●      Compile an Annual Report, to be submitted to the Publications
Committee, the 4S Council and the Executive Committee. The report should
contain data on the number of submissions, number of publications, success
rate per submission, average time from submission to decision, and include
prospects for and concerns about the journal. The discussion of prospects
and concerns should include input from the Editorial Board. This report
will be due one month before the annual 4S meeting.

●      Meet with the 4S Council and its Publications Committee at the 4S
annual meeting, and ideally participate in ad hoc meetings, funding
proposals, and professional workshops organized by the network of STS
journal editors.

●      Participate where possible in various forums and activities to
deepen open access publication infrastructure (for example, the current
collective has led a financial pledging campaign to diversify the journal’s
funding streams).



Sent on behalf of Society for Social Studies of Science


Dr Amanda Windle | 4S Managing Director | Society for Social Studies of
Science 


--
Best Wishes,

*Aalok Khandekar , **Assistant Professor*
of *Anthropology*/ *Sociology*
Department of Liberal Arts  | *Department of
Climate Change  *
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad 
Kandi, Sangareddy-502284, Telangana, India.

Off:* LA 207* | E-mail: *aalok@la.iith.ac.in *

*PI, Heat and Cities *
*Editor-in-Chief, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
 (2020- )*
*Platform Director, **STS Infrastructures *

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