American Society for Information Science and Technology
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The American Society for Information Science and Technology (also referred to as ASIST or ASIS&T) is an organization of information professionals. Established in 1937, the organization sponsors an annual conference and publishes proceedings from this conference under the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology series; provides administration and electronic communications support for interest-based organizational groups referred to as SIGs; provides administration for geographically defined chapter groups; publishes the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (also known as JASIST); publishes a society bulletin; provides job availability oriented communications support; and provides organizational support for continuing education programs for information professionals.
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[edit] Membership
Memberships are fee-based and can be individual or institutional. There are no specific professional requirements to join as an individual. Similar to most organizations of its kind, ASIST offers as basic membership benefits a subscription to the Society Bulletin; access to their job assistance services (JobLine); a subscription to JASIST, the Society Journal; discounts to ASIST-sponsored events; and the ability to participate in the ASIST SIG system and participation in the election of Society officials.
[edit] Society Journal
The Journal of the American Society of Information Science is published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and is part of their Wiley InterScience series of peer-reviewed journals. The editorial board has ~3 dozen members primarily from the United States2. An issue typically opens with an editorial summarizing the contents of the issue and placing articles in context; articles come in Research and Brief Communications formats, numbering around 12 in all; and closing with a handful of book reviews and Society announcements. The Journal is available in paper and electronic formats; abstracts are freely available on-line back to 19961.
Articles accepted by the Journal fall into five broad topic areas3
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- Theory of Information Science
- Communications
- Management, Economics, and Marketing
- Applied Information Science
- Social and Legal Aspects of Information
Upon acceptance, copyright for the contributed article must be transferred to the publisher, Wiley.
Occasional issues appear with all article contents focused on a single topic area. There are two series of these special issues. The JASIST Perspectives series began in 19804, while the "JASIST Special Topics" series began in 19925.
The Journal is indexed a number of abstract/citation repositories including Information Science Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Library and Information Science Asbtracts (LISA), among others 6
[edit] References
Note 1: http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/tocs.html. Retrieved 2005-02-03. Note 2: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76501873/EditorialBoard.html. Retrieved 2005-02-03. Note 3: http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/memo.html. Retrieved 2005-02-03. Note 4: http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~kraft/jasist/perspectives.html. Retrieved 2005-02-03. Note 5: http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~kraft/jasist/sti/sti.html. Retrieved 2005-02-03. Note 6: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/27981/ProductInformation.html. Retrieved 2005-02-03.
