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From the Editors of JASA-EL and POMA
Charles C. Church and Kent L. Gee
The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) has a number of ways of disseminating the scholarship of the acoustics com- munity. Although The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) is very well-known to members and you are reading Acoustics Today, ASA has two other important journals that members should be aware of and consider as outlets for their scholarly works.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society
of America-Express Letters
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America-Express Let- ters (JASA-EL) is dedicated to providing rapid and open dis- semination of important new research results and techni- cal discussion in all fields of acoustics. Access to JASA-EL is free online to all readers. The ASA also strives to make publication in JASA-EL as affordable as possible for every- one regardless of financial circumstances. Thus the Society subsidizes each paper by an amount equal to approximately two-thirds of the total cost of publication. And with a maxi- mum length of 6 pages, JASA-EL papers are short enough to allow several to be read at a sitting, permitting the reader to become familiar with all aspects of our wide-ranging Society.
Another significant advantage offered by JASA-EL is that contributions are permanently archived in their entirety, in- cluding all audiovisual files and any other multimedia. Fur- thermore, letters are published online as soon as possible af- ter the authors have reviewed the proofs. Letters also appear monthly as a section in JASA with links to color figures and multimedia files. And, of course, the contents are fully in- dexed by all of the major abstracting and indexing services.
How can you become part of this important and exciting function of our Society? In many ways! Do you have an in- teresting new result? Then submit an article! Are you good at critiquing the writing of others? Then consider joining us as an Associate Editor in your area of technical expertise! Do you have an idea for a collection of papers on a particular topic? Then consider joining us as a Guest Editor and make
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it happen! Have you developed a new way to demonstrate an important acoustical principle? Then record it and submit it as a video-paper! Send your name and your ideas to Charlie Church (cchurch@olemiss.edu) and join the fun today!!
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) publishes arti- cles from our semiannual meetings and also serves a critical role in expanding the ASA’s global reach by publishing the proceedings of workshops and meetings cosponsored by the Society. POMA also serves as an important archival bridge between ASA meetings and its fully refereed journals. More- over, publication in POMA does not preclude submission to the peer-reviewed JASA or JASA-EL. To date, over 2,500 articles from ASA and other cosponsored meetings have been pub- lished in 25 volumes, with four new volumes planned for 2016.
Publication of a proceedings paper should be rapid and cost effective. Archival-ready manuscripts are reviewed by POMA associate editors for correctness and clarity. A newly designed cover page and manuscript template, coupled with on-going efforts to streamline processing, make POMA an attractive choice for disseminating new research findings, case studies, and historical perspectives. Additionally, pub- lication in POMA remains free of charge in nearly all cases; only non-ASA members submitting to a cosponsored meet- ing must pay a nominal publication fee.
The visibility and utility of POMA are increasing. In addi- tion to ensuring POMA indexing in Google Scholar, Com- pendex, and other technical document search engines, we have rolled out two new opportunities for ASA special ses- sion organizers. First, organizers can write an article to de- scribe the session – its scope, participants, discussion, and outlook. Second, with a sufficient number of papers, articles from one or more special sessions can be grouped as a col- lection on the POMA hosting site Scitation.
Why submit to POMA? A 200-word abstract typically con- tains insufficient detail to be useful to future researchers, yet relatively little of the outstanding technical content from our meetings is ever published. We encourage researchers and practitioners, students and professionals alike, to turn their abstracts and presentations into an archival proceedings pa- per and submit to POMA today!
Kent Gee, kentgee@byu.edu