title: The journal of undergraduate neuroscience education: history, challenges, and future developments.
abstract: The 'JUNE and You' sessions presented at the July 2008 Undergraduate Neuroscience Education workshop, sponsored jointly by Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) and Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL), featured background information about the history and mission of the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE), followed by an informative discussion about the challenges facing JUNE, including new ideas for future developments. This article will highlight some of the information and ideas generated and shared at this conference. Critical discussion points included the need to keep members of FUN actively engaged in submitting and reviewing articles for JUNE. Ways in which authors, reviewers, and interested faculty members could best help in promoting the mission and vision of JUNE were discussed. Concerns about recent hackings into the JUNE website were also raised, and possible solutions and measures that can be taken to minimize this in the future were discussed. In addition, ideas for expanding the role of JUNE to provide a forum to evaluate new and emerging website information that is pertinent to undergraduate neuroscience education was discussed. Ideas for future developments of JUNE included revolving postings of articles as they are accepted, providing links to several related websites, and allowing updates for articles that have been previously published in JUNE. Finally, ideas for maintaining and expanding JUNE's stature as the resource for undergraduate neuroscience education included ensuring that JUNE is listed on important search vehicles, such as PubMed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859; ; Field Neurosciences Institute, Saginaw, MI 48604;
authors.forename: Gary L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Dunbar
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lom
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Grisham
authors.forename: Julio J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Ramirez
keywords: electronic journals; innovative technologies; inter-website links; multimedia formats; search engines; website security