The Call for Papers forms have been included with this newsletter. If you need additional forms, please contact the ARO office. Bronya Keats and Thomas Hixon served as co-chairs. The trend clearly is for scientific societies to take a more active role in publishing. As you can see from the President's column, our own association is considering publishing a traditional peer-reviewed scientific journal, an idea that I and others have been developing for several years.
Developments surrounding electronic publishing continue to transform traditional print publishing.
The most common model now and for the future is to publish a traditional print journal with a complementary electronic version. However, the implementation of this model is not straightforward. Some traditional publishers now offer information in their electronic version prior to the availability of the information in the printed version and in some cases publish information electronically that will not be in the printed version at all. Traditionally, when a paper is submitted to a journal, the assignment of copyright to that journal was accompanied by few restrictions. In the last few years however, journals increasingly are requiring a signed statement that the work has not appeared electronically.