Journal Releases Inaugural Issue
MURFREESBORO, Tenn.—The sport management program at Middle Tennessee State University announced today that it has released the inaugural issue of the Journal of Sport Administration & Supervision (JSAS).
Colby B. Jubenville, co-founder and publisher of the journal, released the inaugural issue in conjunction with the commencement of the Southern Sport Management Conference (SSMC) at Troy State University in Troy, Ala.
“JSAS is proud to release its first issue as SSMC starts this week,” Jubenville said.
“Like SSMC, this issue will be a landmark event in turning the attention of the sport management academy toward serving the practitioner population of the sport industry, and we believe that its revolutionary approach to scholarship will continue to attract cutting-edge research that can make a difference in sport institutions everywhere.”
Contents of Inaugural Issue
According to JSAS co-founder and editor Benjamin D. Goss, the inaugural issue features six scholarly articles that were reviewed within the context of the JSAS mission, which is “to develop, advance, disseminate, promote, and preserve knowledge within the academic discipline of sport management by providing an outlet that is both grounded in academic theory and driven by the needs of practitioners and the environment of the sport industry.”
The journal may be accessed for free at any time at http://www.jsasonline.org.
“We are very happy with the six articles that will appear in our inaugural issue,” Goss said.
“The research it contains will unquestionably advance our mission to serve practitioners within the sport industry, which is exactly what we envisioned when we founded the journal.”
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the journal is that it offers management whitepapers that summarize each article in an effort to ease the absorption and understanding of the articles’ fundamental findings.
“We know sport managers are busy people, but they face a critical need for information, just like managers in any industry,” Goss said.
“Whitepapers are widely used in today’s managerial world to help digest large quantities of information, so we decided to import that concept into the sport management academy.”
Goss also noted that one manuscript in each issue would receive the Editor’s Choice Award, which will be given to the manuscript that the JSAS editorial staff feels is the most outstanding manuscript within the issue.
For the inaugural issue, an article entitled “Do BCS National Championships Lead To Recruiting Violations?” by Texas A&M professors Robert Clark and Paul Batista was selected to receive the distinction.
“The choice was a difficult one, but we kept coming back to Clark and Batista, who do a fantastic job of examining one of the most intriguing dilemmas of intercollegiate athletics and offer some insight into the issue through their empirical examination of the fruit of the win-at-all-cost mentality in college sports,” Goss said.
Other Distinctive Journal Features
Several other distinctive features can be found in journal’s first issue, and Goss said that such features would be common staples of the publication.
The journal opens with a commentary on the state of research publication in the sport management academy by Dr. William F. Stier, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor and graduate director of the athletic administration/sport management program at the College at Brockport/State University of New York in Brockport, N.Y.
Dr. Stier is also the editor of the International Journal of Sport Management, The Physical Educator, and the ICHPER-SD Journal of Research.
Following the six research articles is an excerpt from author Hara Estroff Marano’s widely acclaimed book A Nation of Wimps, which describes the hothouse of modern childrearing in which parents undermine their children's success and short-circuit necessary brain development by incorrectly defining success and removing junctures of failure for their children (www.nationofwimps.com).
The journal concludes with an excerpt on NCAA Division II programs assimilated by Nick Infante of College Athletics Clips (www.collegeathleticsclips.com), a publication that sifts through numerous publications and articles about intercollegiate athletics to provide distilled executive summaries of college athletics news and issues with value-added commentary.
In conjunction with JSAS’s vision of becoming a distinct academic publication, the artwork of renowned artist Douglas C. Hess of Madison, Ala., has been selected to grace the publication’s covers.
As one of the premier sports artists of the last two decades, Hess has immortalized numerous well-known moments in college and professional sports history, including Paul W. “Bear” Bryant’s final victory as the head football coach at the University of Alabama and the Tennessee Titans’ “Music City Miracle” play.
“We chose to add yet another distinguishing dimension to the publication by utilizing Doug Hess’ artwork on its cover to create visual cues that captivate and stimulate, thereby serving as a prelude to and a seal of quality for its contents,” Jubenville said.
Journal Partnerships
In an effort to accomplish its mission, JSAS has entered into partnerships with two affiliated publication institutions.
One partnership involves the University of Michigan Library and its Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO).
Jubenville noted, “Creating a journal published by an academic institution and involving the university library is a novel approach but one that makes perfect sense, because we can utilize the feasibility of existing expertise within the UMich Library as a way to manage academic publishing.”
“The academic library remains a vital part of the scholarly enterprise and understands the desire of scholars for increased accessibility of knowledge,” he added, noting that the library as an institution is not driven by market demands but rather exists to serve authors and patrons.
SPO exists to support authorial and editorial control of scholarship production, and to minimize publication costs by offering users and authors editorial and referee tools, improved publication schedules, and the ability to incorporate various multimedia elements.
SPO also develops mechanisms for publication and distribution of scholarly digital projects that move past traditional publication forms into new ways of scholarly expression.
JSAS’s other vital institutional partnership exists with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC ®), an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.
Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change in scholarly publication with its pragmatic focus to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries.
In collaboration with stakeholders, including authors, publishers, and libraries, actions by SPARC build on unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship.
SPARC can also assist in international publicity, indexing in search engines, and legal advice.
Future Journal Initiatives
Future initiatives include aggressive indexing, publicity of select articles, and an interactive media center, which will be developed and announced in the next few weeks.
“We have entered a new era of scholarly publication, not only in the field of sport management, but in academia as a whole, and we invite other journals to consider the new model we have contrived and draw inspiration from it to benefit future research efforts,” Jubenville said.
For more information about JSAS, please contact:
Dr. Colby B. Jubenville
Publisher
jubenvil@mtsu.edu
615-898-2909
Dr. Benjamin D. Goss
Editor
drbengoss@hotmail.com
417-836-6592
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