Preliminary Agenda Thursday, 14 February 2008 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. ET Louisville Marriott Downtown 280 West Jefferson Louisville, Kentucky 40202 USA Phone: +1 502 627 5045 Fax: +1 502 627 5044
I.	ROLL CALL AND WELCOME (Leung Tsang)
II.	REVIEW AND ADOPTION OF AGENDA (Leung Tsang)
III.	APPROVAL OF NOVEMBER 2007 IEEE TAB PERIODICALS COMMITTEE MINUTES (Leung Tsang)
IV.	CHAIR'S INTRODUCTION (Leung Tsang)
V.	REPORT OF VICE PRESIDENT - IEEE PUBLICATION SERVICES AND PRODUCTS BOARD (John Baillieul)
VI.	REVIEW AND GENERAL DISCUSSIONS OF NEW JOURNALS APPROVAL PROCEDURE (All)
VII.	MOTIONS
	A.	Endorsement of the following IEEE TAB Periodicals Review Committee reports which have completed the entire review process: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Industry Applications Society, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Steve Yurkovich)
	B.	Endorsement of the update to the Reprint Voluntary Page Charge/Overlength Paper Charge (VP/OPC) listing (Laura Creighton)
		COMMENTS ON NEW PERIODICAL PROPOSALS
	C.	Endorsement of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, and IEEE Sensors Council's new periodical proposal (phase two approval of full business plan - 2009 launch) for IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
	D.	Endorsement of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's new periodical proposal (phase one approval of title, scope and sponsorship - 2009 launch) for IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development
	E.	Endorsement of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society's new periodical proposal (phase one approval of title, scope and sponsorship - 2009 launch) for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine (Dick Jaeger)
	F.	Endorsement of IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation's (CEDA) new periodical proposal (phase one approval of title, scope and sponsorship - 2009 launch) for IEEE Embedded Systems Letters
VIII.	FOLLOW-UP ON ACTION ITEMS FROM NOVEMBER 2007
	A.	The TAB Periodicals Committee recommends formation of an ad-hoc committee involving appropriate TAB/PSPB/IEEE Finance Committee representation to discuss the possibility of a single overlength and voluntary page charge structure for all journals
	B.	Ad-hoc Committee to be formed to determine what the trigger mechanisms for termination would be (besides the Society requesting to discuss termination) and developing a formal termination process
IX.	DISCUSSION/INFORMATION ITEMS
	A.	Periodical Watch List (Laura Creighton)
		1). Follow-up on TAB motion - Approve that the TAB Periodicals Committee Chair shall present at each TAB meeting a report of progress towards achieving the goals that, by 2009: 1) 80% of papers in each journal have a submission to (electronic) publication time of less than 1 year, and 2) no journal shall have a mean submission to (electronic) publication time of greater than 2 years.
	B.	IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine Action Plan
	C.	Co-sponsorship Memorandum of Understanding between IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Reliability Society for IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine
	D.	Draft proposal for IEEE Photonics
	E.	Update on IEEE Journal on Optical Communications and Networking (phase one proposal was approved in November 2007)
	F.	Citation Discussion
	G.	IEEE Transactions on Biometrics
	H.	IEEE TAB Finance Committee list of Actions and Motions (Laura Creighton)
X.	REPORTS
	A.	Transactions/Journals/Magazines/Newsletters Report (Fran Zappulla)
	B.	IEEE TAB Periodicals Review Committee Report (Steve Yurkovich)
	C.	IEEE TAB Transactions Committee Report (Jacek Zurada)
	D.	IEEE TAB Magazines Committee Report (Kim Fowler)
	E.	IEEE TAB Newsletters Committee Report (Ross Stone)
XI.	NEW BUSINESS
XII.	NEXT MEETING- The next meeting of the IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee is scheduled for Thursday, 19 June 2008, at Grand Hyatt Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA.
XIII.	ADJOURNMENT