If we do decide to make a journal, put me on the list for helping out.
But personally I think that making the long-planned Cycling and Society aggregator website should be a first priority. There are plenty of papers already written that people don't know about. I assume that it would probably better justify cycling as a valid, fundable research topic if cycling papers in existing journals were highly cited, rather than by having our own journal. In these "wonderful" days of impact based funding, is it not more use to get highly cited papers in existing highly cited journals, backed up by an archive of quality practical applied reports and a vibrant online community (inc discussion forum/'zines/magazines, podcasts, tv etc).
Might this be the kind of thing that the British Academy Research Projects are set up to fund? I will help with and do the legwork (post-thesis) this if someone attached to a university were to help and host an application.
(Need to sign into e-gap for full details, http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/index.cfm)
Pete
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Department of Geography
The Open University
United Kingdom
http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/about-the-faculty/departments/geography/postgraduate/profiles/peter_wood.php
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