The Society for the study of flies (Diptera)

I sent an early draft of something to Alan Stubbs and in his reply he said "Rather greedy on space ... for print if DD intended (OK for E-report)"
Time perhaps for a review of the vehicles Dipterists Forum provide for publishing.
There are disadvantages from the suite we currently offer.
1. Print-only: Whilst some of our published material may be accessed online, much of it is only on paper.
2. Access: There is a membership moratorium, to obtain some papers you must become a member of Dipterists Forum
3. Colour: The Bulletin is always produced in colour yet members only see a black and white version
4. Space: Authors are constrained by the amount of acceptable space they can use in our current suite of publications

It's time we considered adding a more modern form of publishing to our suite, the E-report method that Alan refers to. At a stroke all the above restrictions could be made to disappear.
We provide links to many such reports in this publications section but we don't have a system of our own to badge, peer review and disseminate them.
Recording Scheme Newsletters may be our best example but there is no consistency regarding access to these.

Note that peer review is an important aspect. Only if such a document is DF badged and checked using a peer review system accepted by Dipterists Forum could it be said to constitute a formal paper citable in the publications of others. Such papers would also have to conform to an acceptable format.
Open Access is imperative, it must be freely and easily accessible, located permanently on our website and we should consider having a formal identifier applied to it, ISBNs might work, DOIs certainly would.

I propose that we draw up of a set of guidelines for such e-publications.