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Journal of the AMS Editorial Committee

General Description

  • Committee is standing
  • Number of members is approximately seven
  • Term is four years

Principal Activities

To solicit, acquire, review, edit, and publish articles in the Journal of the AMS.

Miscellaneous Information

The Managing Editor, who will chair the Editorial Committee, will be elected by the Council, upon the recommendation of the Editorial Boards Committee (EBC). The other editors are appointed by the President upon recommendation of the EBC in consultation with the Managing Editor. The Managing Editor and the Editorial Committee are supported by a board of associate editors who are appointed by the President upon the recommendation of the EBC.

At the discretion of the Chief Executive Officer, meeting travel might be reimbursed at LEVEL B.

The Managing Editor serves as the representative on the Council. The travel budget of the Managing Editor is negotiated with the AMS Publisher.

Editors normally serve no more than two consecutive terms.

From the charge to the Editorial Boards Committee:

The [Editorial Boards] Committee shall recommend appointees to certain editorial committees to the AMS President and the Council. To that end, it shall solicit suggestions for those editorial committees by consulting with managing editors, current editorial committees, and other interested parties. The committee should take into account both the interests of the publications and the overall interests of the Society.

Note to the Chair

For the purpose of archiving the committee activities, the Secretary maintains a central file system for archiving committee records. Committee Chairs are asked to submit committee records on yearly basis. Chairs can submit material at their discretion, and some materials that they may wish to provide are meeting minutes, agenda, and emails. Confidential material should be noted, so that it can be handled in a confidential manner.

Authorization

  • created 4/13/90; updated 10/31/90; 5/04/95; 11/01;1/07; 8/09; 8/11; 1/12; 9/12; 7/13 clarified travel, updated membership; 7/22
  • 09 January 2018 Council Item 4.7.3: Clarified appointment process.

Past Members

A list of current and past members is available here:
http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/jams-past.html