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associate editors for all three publica- tions will participate. There is no fixed date for the transition to be completed, but it is expected to extend for up to 6 months. There may be some overlap
in the use of the Editorial Manager and the current system, but for each publica- tion, a date will arrive at which all new submissions must be submitted via the Editorial Manager. Transition will not be a trivial task, but Aries has helped many other organizations make such transitions in the past, so the ASA an- ticipates no insurmountable difficulties.
POMA Submission Requirements May Change
Currently,
the ASA’s open-access online journal,
Proceeding of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA), is configured so that each new volume corresponds to a distinct con- ference. Since the ASA has two meet- ings a year, there are at least two new POMA volumes each year. In addition, the organizers of several co-sponsored meetings have elected to use POMA
for the publication of their conference proceedings, so that there can be more than two volumes associated with any given calendar year. (Currently, POMA has a total of 20 volumes posted online. Volume 1 is dated February 2007, but one has to download a specific article to find that this volume corresponds to the ASA meeting in Salt Lake City in June 2007.)
Problems with POMA volume num- bers were discussed extensively by the POMA editors, the ASA Publication Policy Committee, and the Executive Council at the meeting in San Francis-
co. It was recognized that the process of transitioning to Editorial Manager represented a unique opportunity for reconfiguring POMA.
The tentative plan, which was approved by the Executive Council, is that there will generally be one (though some- times two) new POMA volumes each year. The volume numbers will not correspond to distinct conferences. Instead the contents of a given volume will consist only of papers that were accepted for publication during the time period associated with the volume. Thus, for example, a volume corre- sponding to 2015 could contain a paper that corresponds to a presentation that took place in, for example, 2001. Each volume will be organized according to the technical committees of the Society, and papers will appear in the relevant section in the order in which they are accepted, regardless of just when they were presented at a meeting. (This system of posting is referred to as e-first publication. A given volume will build until the time deadline is reached for last acceptance of a paper.)
Currently, there are no fees for publica- tion in POMA and all papers published in POMA are open access. This does incur some financial expense to the ASA, but a possible rationale is that the Society has already collected a registra- tion fee from the author at the time the author attended the meeting at which the paper was given. The actual expense of publishing a paper in POMA is generally significantly less than a typical registration fee.
ASA books Offered Online at Membership Prices
The ASA has been publishing books since 1983 and most of the published books are reprints of older books that had gone out of print.
Over the years, these books have been offered for sale, principally by mail- order, with different prices for members and nonmembers. If the books are sold via an online vendor, such as Amazon, it has been difficult to distinguish between members and nonmembers, so members purchasing online must pay the non- member price.
Since fall 2013, the ASA Publications Office has been shipping some of the ASA books in bulk quantities to des- ignated Amazon sites so that Amazon itself could fulfill any orders for these books directly by shipping from one of its warehouses. The cost for this service to ASA is nominal, and it is advertised by Amazon as Fulfillment by Ama- zon. Customers are charged $3.99 for shipping within the United States, and the Acoustical Society is not charged for shipping and handling. ASA Prime members get free shipping and two-day delivery.
ASA books sold by Amazon are adver- tised as being offered by the ASA Press, which is now the official trademark for all ASA publications. Moreover, the Executive Council, upon recommenda- tion of the Publications Committee, agreed to allow the pricing of all books sold by Amazon to be at the member prices. Thus one finds the ASA’s better selling books offered by ASA Press on the Amazon site at member prices.
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