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About EDIS NewsEDIS News is intended for an “inside-UF/IFAS” audience, particularly anybody with an interest in EDIS publishing: authors, potential authors, department chairs, and program leaders. Please share with anyone you think would be interested. Back issues are on the IFAS Communications website (http://ics.ifas.ufl.edu/edis.shtml) under the “News Archive” tab at the bottom.

EDIS team newsJames Bassett has joined our team as an EDIS editor, and Rachel Walkover is our new proofreader. Both are demons of speed and efficiency and we are happy to welcome them.

EDIS dot IFAS dot OOFALLYDOO*How do we handle peer review?Q. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve written a new and beautiful EDIS article, and

now I need to get it reviewed. Could you please send it to reviewers for me?

A. Please send your excellent manuscript to your department chair or to your “EDIS wrangler” (the faculty or staff person in your department who handles peer review—see “An EDIS Success Story, Part One,” EDIS News Volume 2 Issue 2). UF/IFAS Communications does not manage peer review because the adminis-trators who set up the Extension publishing process determined that the academic departments are best equipped to handle review. For more on review, see “A short history of EDIS review processes” later in this newsletter. For answers to all your manuscript preparation questions, please see the EDIS publishing FAQs: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/faq/index.html.

Please send questions to skgilder@ufl.edu. *edis.ifas.ufl.edu

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Farewell to Joan Duskystorms more than once, threatened sometimes by technological calamities and sometimes by public relations challenges, both internal and external. EDIS has steadily grown and blos-somed despite all the buffeting over the years because Dr. Dusky believed in it and supported it. Her faith in the value of the mission never wavered. She has worked tirelessly to improve and support our collection; it was she who ensured its accuracy, its reliabil-ity, its integrity, and its open avail-ability to the people of Florida and the world. She encouraged Extension faculty to publish in EDIS and but-tressed their faith in our system, and she has maintained for decades a standard of academic excellence for our publications that has earned UF/

Meet your teamJames BassettJames C. Bassett comes to us from the misty Pacific northwest, where he enjoyed hiking and glögg. He has worked as a technical writer and editor since earning his bachelors in English Literature and Creative Writing from UF after a brief stint at Cornell. He is pleased to discover that the temperature dips below 90 degrees in Florida sometimes.

IFAS a national reputation as a leader in Extension publishing. EDIS and UF/IFAS along with it have strengthened and prospered under Joan Dusky’s watch. She leaves an enduring legacy at UF/IFAS and in the hearts of the many people who work alongside her and admire her. We will miss you dearly, Dr. Dusky.

Associate Dean for UF/IFAS Extension Joan Dusky is retiring after more than thirty years of service to UF/IFAS

and the state of Florida. Dr. Dusky has been EDIS’s stalwart protector since the program’s inception. Like other revolutionary, paradigm-shifting ideas, our elec-tronic publishing project had a lengthy development period before it became truly robust. Over the years since it was conceived, it has weathered big

James Bassett

Your newsletter, your news If you have an idea for a story for the newsletter or an issue you’d like us to explore, please let us know. Questions about the EDIS collection, the EDIS publishing process, the EDIS website, or any EDIS publication? If you’re wondering, others will be, too. We welcome your input to help us tailor the newsletter to suit your needs. Call Susan Gildersleeve at 352-294-3318 or Diana Hagan at 352-294-3315, or email skgilder@ufl.edu and dihagan@ufl.edu.

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Now you can see how many visits your EDIS publications are getting.

Go to http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/stats.html and use the search form to select publications by author, department, or title keyword. This year the EDIS website logged 25.89 million pageviews and currently serves 7,104 publications. Overall, visits and pageviews are slightly lower than last year, but average visit length increased by six seconds.

• Collaborate with experts outside your organization, espe-cially those who are in your geographical area, develop new content together, and share each other’s content.

EDIS Website summary:Total Visits 8,853,119Total Pageviews 25,888,857Average Visits Per Day 24,255.12Average Pageviews Per Day 70,928.38Average Visit Length 00:01:36

Diana’s EDIS data in a blink

Top 25 EDIS publicationsRank DLN Title Visits URL1 VH021 Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide 153,024 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/VH021 2 FY394 Triangulation: Establishing the Validity of Qualitative Studies 102,268 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FY394 3 PS044 Common Poultry Diseases 90,628 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/PS044 4 UW258 Dealing with Snakes in Florida’s Residential Areas - Identifying

Commonly Encountered Snakes82,082 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW258

5 HR022 Diversity in the Workplace: Benefits, Challenges, and the Required Managerial Tools

67,233 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/HR022

6 HR020 Transformational Leadership: The Transformation of Managers and Associates

58,244 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/HR020

7 PD006 Determining Sample Size 53,850 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/PD006 8 FY393 Conducting an In-depth Interview 48,679 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FY393 9 LH010 St. Augustinegrass for Florida Lawns 47,960 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LH010 10 UW251 “Black Snakes”: Identification and Ecology 45,650 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW251 11 FY731 Sulfites: Separating Fact from Fiction 41,402 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FY731 12 MG213 Avocado Growing in the Florida Home Landscape 36,595 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG213 13 PS029 Factors Affecting Egg Production in Backyard Chicken Flocks 36,286 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/PS029 14 FY1277 9 Important Communication Skills for Every Relationship 35,759 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FY1277 15 LH011 Zoysiagrass for Florida Lawns 33,237 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LH011 16 LH006 Bahiagrass for Florida Lawns 32,701 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LH006 17 FS077 Basic Elements of Equipment Cleaning and Sanitizing in Food Pro-

cessing and Handling Operations29,392 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FS077

18 EP220 Identification of Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac, and Poison-wood

28,891 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/EP220

19 MG216 Mango Growing in the Florida Home Landscape 28,182 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG216 20 HR017 Understanding Motivation: An Effective Tool for Managers 28,138 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/HR017 21 MG086 Basic Principles of Landscape Design 26,957 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG086 22 AG263 Herbicidas para exterminar árboles invasivos en la jardinería

doméstica24,980 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AG263

23 MG359 Blueberry Gardener’s Guide 24,190 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG359 24 FS104 Preventing Foodborne Illness: Clostridium botulinum 23,870 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FS104 25 HS100 The Muscadine Grape 23,506 http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/HS100

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Contact usUF/IFAS Communications • http://ics.ifas.ufl.edu

Susan Gildersleeve 352-294-3318 skgilder@ufl.edu

Entomology and Nematology Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Florida Sea Grant Food and Resource Economics School of Forest Resources and Conservation School of Natural Resources and Environment Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Neal Hammons 352-294-3305 nhammons@ufl.edu

Agricultural and Biological Engineering Agronomy Animal Sciences Family, Youth and Community Sciences Microbiology and Cell Science Pesticide Information Office Soil and Water Science Veterinary Medicine 4-H Youth Development

James C. Bassett 352-294-3307 jbassett@ufl.edu

Agricultural Education and Communication Environmental Horticulture Food Science and Human Nutrition Herbarium Horticultural Sciences Plant Pathology

Hope Crawford 352-294-3320 deloris@ufl.edu

For technical or collection information, please contact

Diana Hagan 352-294-3315 dihagan@ufl.edu

Today EDIS manuscripts go through three rounds of scrutiny before they become publications. First there is peer review (the sponsoring department assigns content experts to read the manuscript and suggest changes to the author); next comes communications review (the EDIS editor reads the manuscript for clarity and accessibility to the audience and suggests changes to the author); and finally, approval (department chairs, REC directors, and program leaders either approve or reject the publication).

Until the advent of the EDIS Routing System a few years ago, the first and third of these review rounds were merged, with chairs, REC directors, and deans approving manuscripts for publication during the peer review stage. Until we get a replacement for the EDIS Routing System, which was the reason for bifurcating review but which has been offline for several years, it makes sense to consider merging those two phases of review again to improve the efficiency of our process to get publications online faster.

A short history of EDIS review processes