After 32 years of professoring, 10 years as executive editor of IMJ, and 10 years as Contributing Editor of Records Management Quarterly. Also chair of Education and of Publications Committees of ARMA.

First, ARMA per se should not field a peer review journal because there is inadequate scholarly structure and rationale to support it. To even be considered the journal requires several steps to taken *before* the journal:

1. An adequate number of undergraduates and masters students majoring in RM (not business administration or archives management with a group of 3-4 courses) and a full-dress focused program with 35 to 42 course hours, not 3-4 classes. Then, doctoral programs in records management will rise across the land.

2. Then, an adequate number of Ph.D.-carrying RM scholars (name one) are looking for places to publish their research.

3. Departments; a number of them with good enrollment and multiple levels of degrees. 

I've never seen one scintilla of evidence that readers without doctoral degrees care about scholarly writing (meaning research); and, by the way, how many RM PhDs are there (name one)? 

A peer-reviewed journal does not sui generis create academic programs; it is created from programs as above that precede it.  Name one other discipline without significant academic presence. First, then, there must be enough existing Ph.D. professors of records management.

It is not ARMA that must create and own the peer-review journal.  It might be a large supporter, but the program and journal will more likely be housed in a large prestigious records management department (name one). They also run the journal processes.  And most peer review journals carry little or no advertising--who's going to pay for this?

IMJ, by the way, published more articles by professors than did RMQ, but that's what came in over the transom.  

Best,
Mike



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