Clinical Theriogenology 2022; 14: 333

Editor’s note

Dear theriogenology friends,

Paradigm shift

I am so thankful to the Ad hoc committee (Drs. Ri-
ley Thompson [committee chair], Divakar Ambrose, 
and Brian Whitlock) for their hard work and approv-
al of our leadership to move our journal to its next 
stage of its growth (open access) with the ultimate 
goal of getting recognized (PubMed indexing) in the 
scientific world. 

Yes, our journal will become ‘open access’, inci-
dentally, this will be the last hard copy issue!

My profound thanks to Omnipress staff and project 
managers (Kristi Connelly, Jessica Fogarty, and Lisa 
Poster) who were very helpful during the last 4 years. 

Process 

A link will be in place in appropriate portal(s) to sub-
mit manuscripts to our journal. We will inform (via 
our list servers) once the platform becomes available 
(November). Manuscripts accepted by the Editor for 
publication shall be published online either continu-
ously as they are accepted and edited, and/or collated 
into online issues. 

Manuscript that are processed currently, including 
4 canine symposium papers, and those that will be 
submitted to the journal (editor) will be processed 
for open access via Open Academia Publishing Ser-
vices.

We will stive to maintain our journal’s current typo-
graphic design and layout (including citations and 
references) initiated by Dr. Ahmed Tibary. It took a 
while by the founding editor, Dr. Bob Youngquist (10 
years) and me (4 years) along with the copy editor 
(Dr. John Kastelic) to arrive at the current Clinical 
Theriogenology style and policy.  Thank you, Bob, 
John, and Ahmed.

Special issues

We will collate manuscripts that are prepared for 
those 15 special issues and publish them online. I 
will continue to be in touch with the Guest Editors 
and bring special issues to fruition. 

Conference issue

Conference issue will be eliminated. Instead, confer-
ence proceedings (manuscripts, presentation notes, 
and abstracts) will be compiled for the online con-
ference website and not on the open access website. 
However, excellent quality manuscripts from the 
proceedings will be chosen by the Editorial Board for 
the peer-review process to be included in the open 
access journal. This will encourage speakers to accept 
presentations for the conference without the require-
ment of submitting a full proceedings article, though 
a shortened document of presentation notes will still 
be required. 

Welcome to our new Executive Director

Many colleagues may be aware that Dr. Charles Franz 
has passed on the rein of executive directorship to 
Ms. Betsy Griener. Watching Betsy’s involvement with 
our journal activities (via recent zoom meetings), I 
do firmly believe that our journal will continue to 
grow under Betsy’s leadership. Charles has done a 
fine job and personally, it was a wonderful experience 
for me to serve along with Charles on the ACT Board 
and with our journal for the last 4 years.  Thank you, 
Charles, for your 2 decades of friendship and tremen-
dous support, we will be in touch. 

Please feel free to write to me (petera@purdue.edu), 
if you have questions or concerns, thank you all.

Wish you all a wonderful New Year!

Regards,

Augustine