Thursday, 19 June 2008 1:00pm - 5:00pm Mountain Daylight Savings Time Grand Hyatt Denver 1750 Welton Street Denver, Colorado, USA 80202 Phone: +1 303 295 1234 Fax: +1 303 292 2472
I.	ROLL CALL AND WELCOME (Leung Tsang)
II.	REVIEW AND ADOPTION OF AGENDA (Leung Tsang)
III.	APPROVAL OF FEBRUARY 2008 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.	MOTIONS
	A.	Endorsement of the following IEEE TAB Periodicals Review Committee reports which have completed the entire review process: IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (Steve Yurkovich)
	B.	Endorsement of the update to the Reprint Voluntary Page Charge/Overlength Paper Charge (VP/OPC) listing (PDF, 57KB) (Laura Creighton)
		COMMENTS ON NEW PERIODICAL PROPOSALS (PDF, 148KB)
	C.	Endorsement of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society's new periodical proposal (phase two approval of full business plan - 2009 launch) for IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine (PDF, 1.35MB) (Rakesh Kumar)
	D.	Endorsement of IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation's (CEDA) new periodical proposal (phase two approval of full business plan - 2009 launch) for IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (PDF, 1.22MB) (Rajesh Gupta)
	E.	Endorsement of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's new periodical proposal (phase 1 and 2 approval of full business plan - 2009 launch) for IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development (PDF, 1.86MB) (Jim Keller)
	F.	Endorsement of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society's new periodical proposal (phase 1 and 2 approval of full business plan - 2009 launch) for IEEE Photonics Journal (PDF, 944KB) (Carmen Menoni)
		1). Outside Vendor Study and Society Response to Marketing Analysis (PDF, 2.35MB)
	G.	Endorsement of IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society's new periodical proposal (phase 1 and 2 approval of full business plan - 2009 launch) for IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (PDF, 779KB)
	H.	Endorsement of TAB Periodicals Committee guidelines and metrics (PDF, 35.6KB) for both a Periodicals Watch List and improvement of the timeliness performance of TAB periodicals. A trial period, beginning January 2009, will be set in motion using the specified metrics and implementation plan. The data for evaluation will become available in early 2009. The TAB Periodicals Committee will closely monitor the Watch List and in the future, after an appropriate period of evaluation, will (i) revisit the issue of whether any actions should be taken against candidates placed on the Watch List, (ii) make any necessary adjustments to this Plan, and (iii) terminate the trial period and instate some form of this Plan. (Leung Tsang)
	I.	Endorsement of changes to Section 8.4 of the PSPB Operations Manual (PDF, 37KB) (Laura Creighton)
VII.	FOLLOW-UP ON ACTION ITEMS FROM FEBRUARY 2008
	A.	Compare data in proposals for member stats vs. actual in time for current phase one proposals (PDF, 30KB) (Laura Creighton)
VIII.	DISCUSSION/INFORMATION ITEMS
	A.	Periodical Watch List (PDF, 43KB) - Keep M-Nano on Periodical Watch List and continue monitoring the situation with an update expected in June (Motion from February 2008 meeting) (Laura Creighton)
	B.	Sub-to-Pub Timeliness Report (PDF, 297KB) (Jonathan Dahl)
	C.	IEEE TAB Finance Committee list of Actions (PDF, 43KB) and Motions (PDF, 117KB) (Laura Creighton)
IX.	REPORTS
	A.	Transactions/Journals/Magazines/Newsletters Report (Fran Zappulla)
	B.	IEEE TAB Periodicals Review Committee Report (PDF, 28KB) (Steve Yurkovich)
	C.	IEEE TAB Transactions Committee Report (PDF, 132KB) (Jacek Zurada)
	D.	IEEE TAB Magazines Committee Report (Kim Fowler)
	E.	IEEE TAB Newsletters Committee Report (PDF, 19.7KB) (Ross Stone)
X.	NEW BUSINESS
XI.	NEXT MEETING- The next meeting of the IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee is scheduled for Thursday, 13 November 2008, at Grand Hyatt New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
XII.	ADJOURNMENT