From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Wed Feb 11 18:58:49 2015 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:58:49 +1100 Subject: [ASA] ASA subscriptions and FAA donations In-Reply-To: <5346B3A72C6C8442A4B7A5F409095FC314E076BD8C@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> References: <8DC7B633-46FC-4CC1-8D43-8BBCA5C724A8@sydney.edu.au> <50F4AB43.20004@aao.gov.au> <006a01cdf2c9$5923f750$0b6be5f0$%duldig@utas.edu.au> <50F4C2A8.9060609@aao.gov.au> <, > <009201cdf2cb$2dbd0e60$89372b20$%duldig@utas.edu.au> <5346B3A72C6C8442A4B7A5F409095FC314E076BD8C@EXNSW-MBX01.nexus.csiro.au> Message-ID: <75F9764F-6522-4966-8D80-5CF335388606@sydney.edu.au> All ASA members will shortly receive (or have received) the Annual Subscription Notice for their ASA membership (a little late this year). Your prompt payment is appreciated - and will attract the usual discount! As notified recently, the early payment date has been extended to 31 March. One feature of this notice each year is the opportunity to make a donation to the ASA's tax-deductible Foundation, the FAA. A notice describing the FAA and the activities it supports is attached. Please read it and consider if you can help the ASA sustain these activities. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN O?BYRNE Associate Head (Teaching & Learning) Chair, School Teaching & Learning Committee Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia Inc. 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The average turnaround time for an article, from submission to receiving the first report, was 23 days in 2014. 3. PASA now returns a financial benefit to the ASA. Publishing in PASA directly benefits your society. 4. PASA publishes the `Dawes reviews', a series of marquee review papers on topics in Astronomy: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?library&libname=Dawes&libid=544f74972e 5. PASA articles come with innovative features, including publication in EPUB format as well as PDF, tracking of social media metrics on top of traditional citation counts, and the ability to comment on published articles. 6. There are no page charges for publication in PASA, and articles can be made open access at the discretion of the Editorial Board. 7. All PASA articles become open access after a two year proprietary period 8. PASA regularly commissions special issues of topical interest. We do not publish conference proceedings. 9. PASA publishes not only regular papers, but also reviews*, supplement-style papers describing software, or catalogues as well as educational articles 10. PASA is published by Cambridge University Press, one of the world's oldest and most prestigious publishers. ASA members receive a 20% discount on book purchases from CUP** 11. PASA has a strong international and gender-balanced Editorial Board (and just like a Marshall Amplifier, this list goes up to 11). * Unsolicited reviews should be discussed with the Editorial Board beforehand ** ASA members who purchase a book from CUP need only announce they are ASA members. No codes to remember or matters that may expire. Rather that using the website, a simple email to enquiries at cambridge.edu.au or call to 03 8671 1400 will do the trick. Finally, as PASA is *your* society journal, I'd very much like feedback from ASA members on good or bad experiences you've had with PASA, and in particular what would encourage you as a member to submit articles our way. Yours faithfully, Daniel Price Editor-in-Chief, PASA submit: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/astro web: http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_PAS Monash Centre for Astrophysics School of Physics and Astronomy Monash University, Vic +61 3 9905 1760 http://users.monash.edu.au/~dprice -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: