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Title: Editorial: Community Service
Author: Martin Moene
Date: 10 November 2014 15:21:27 +00:00 or Mon, 10 November 2014 15:21:27 +00:00
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There is change in the wind here at C Vu. It happens from time to time, because if it didn’t it would be terribly boring!
C Vu has been the ACCU members’ magazine since 1987, and in the intervening years it’s changed quite a bit. The last big change saw C Vu take the format (roughly) you now see, in April 2006.
The next change being considered is the idea of opening up selected articles and items from the magazine to non-members as part of the online presence of the magazine. Both C Vu and Overload – our sister publication – are available on ACCU’s website in PDF format, although currently C Vu is restricted to members only. However, it is hoped that making some of the articles we get for C Vu publicly available might persuade more people to pay up, join up, and get the whole thing every two months – which obviously is a win for us as a magazine, and for them! The plan would be that selected items would be made available some time after publication, rather than immediately as is the case with Overload.
Your thoughts on this to the usual address will be much appreciated.
In the April 2006 edition I mentioned previously, the editor at the time, Paul Johnson, reported the demise of one of the last remaining print-copy magazines for programmers: CUJ. At the present time, I am aware only of C Vu and Overload being available in paper copy for programmers. There are many online magazines, blogs and other websites, but a printed magazine has the benefit that if you leave it lying around at work, someone who’s never seen on may pick it up and flip through it, and might even like what they see.
I feel strongly about C Vu – and Overload, it’s not all editorial bias! – that they perform a very important, even vital, role in publishing articles that are (and here’s the really important bit) peer reviewed. The truth is that anyone can write a blog or respond to a question on one of the many tech-community websites, and whilst there is opportunity for people to make comments on those posts, it’s not the same thing as having an article published that’s been reviewed and critiqued by your peers. There aren’t too many places left that make that claim, so help us to ensure that C Vu and Overload are able to continue this crucial service for all of you!
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