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Idea: Local Food Systems Open Academic Journal
Matt Mariola's recent post about a special edition of Local Environ journal, dedicated to local food systems, gave me an idea: I think there are several people around the world who might be very interested in being published in a peer-reviewed journal about Local Food Systems.
In order to get this off of the ground in an expedient manner, the journal could start out as an electric/online journal, using open source software designed to accomplish this see: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ and I have an exampel set up here http://www.socialsynergyweb.com/ojs/ "Opne Journal Systems" includes mechanisms for journal submission management, peer review, and extensive built-in documentation that really literally walks you through the process of getting it up and running.
Open Journal System also has all of this http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs_plugins and used by several journals http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs-screenshots
This article talks about the many different ways that OJS helps to broadcast info to open knowledge repositories about a journal that is hosted on the software http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/GettingFoundStayingFound.pdf
The idea here is that colleagues in local food academic communities could create, for very low start up cost, and a small amount of time per participant, and open-licensed online (at first, and eventually print on demand) academic journal specifically about Local Food Systems and Local Food Ecology issues. This journal would cover everything from technology, to environment, permaculture, economics, and policy as it applies to local food systems.