The Editorial structure for Statistics Surveys consists of a Management Committee, Executive Editors, a Coordinating Editor, and Associate Editors.

Each sponsoring society will appoint an Executive Editor.

The Executive Editors and the Coordinating Editor are members of the Management Committee.

Each Executive Editor will have authority to appoint any number of Associate Editors on behalf of their sponsoring society, subject to the constraint that each Associate Editor will be sponsored by only one society. Published papers will indicate the Associate Editor and his or her sponsoring society. Executive Editors will be responsible to their sponsoring societies for ensuring that Associate Editors apply standards considered appropriate by their sponsoring societies. How a sponsoring society chooses its Executive Editor, and his or her length of term, is an internal matter for the society.

The Executive Editors will appoint the Coordinating Editor. The Coordinating Editor exercises day-to-day oversight of the journal and is responsible for decisions (other than academic judgments on acceptance of papers) concerning the journal.

Each Associate Editor of Statistics Surveys will be sponsored by only one society. The board of Associate Editors will be largely responsible for reviewing and accepting or declining papers. Associate Editors are expected to show initiative in soliciting survey papers within their own areas of expertise.

Each society will pay a charge per paper (base charge is around $50) accepted by one of their Associate Editors. This is the only financial commitment of a sponsoring society at the outset, though eventually societies may be asked to voluntarily contribute their share of the fixed annual cost.

For the record, the Editorial board is not paid, all journal content is freely readable on the web, and libraries may freely print out articles and bind into volumes if they wish.

For discussion on the issues involved with the copyrights, see http://bibserver.berkeley.edu/proposals/atlas_proposal/proposal.html.