<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]-->
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" text="#000000"
vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">Dear ANR Faculty,<o:p></o:p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m writing to ask for your input on the
publication of Research Reports. These reports were once
published in great numbers in booklets such as the Forage and
Grain Report, Vegetable Report, and Cotton Report. However, in
the past few years these have been far and few between. The
process lately has been to give Research Reports their own AZ
numbers and have them peer-reviewed. They are published online
with other Extension publications, the only difference being the
format and that the words “Research Report” proceed the title so
that readers are aware these are not traditional Extension
publications but reports concerning on-going or recently
completed research.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The question has arisen of whether we should
have these Research Reports peer reviewed through the Fasttrack
system. I do not wish to have some research reports peer
reviewed and others not. I would like to be consistent. Those
of you that write these reports, have written these reports or
plan to (or have an interest in) these reports, please let me
know your thoughts. I have no desire to make the process more
complicated that it need be. However, I am happy to continue to
work with the Associate Editors and have these publication
continue to be peer reviewed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please let me know.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">**Doing something
once is worth more than seeing it done a thousand times**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Edward C. Martin,
Ph.D. Tel: (602) 827-8200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">County Extension
Director Fax: (602) 827-8292<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Maricopa County
Cooperative Extension<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">4341 E. Broadway
Rd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Phoenix, AZ
85040-8807<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
E-Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ecmartin@email.arizona.edu">ecmartin@email.arizona.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img id="Picture_x0020_2"
src="cid:part1.06000108.05030105@email.arizona.edu"
height="139" width="535">
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>