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ACM Policy on The Quality of Refereed Electronic Publications
For the past fifty years, ACM has been a major professional
computer society and publisher of scholarly literature in computer
science and engineering. The association's seventeen refereed
journals have earned reputations for being highly respected in the
field.
Science and engineering fields are now crossing an historic divide
in which electronic dissemination is increasingly preferred to
printed distribution. ACM is moving aggressively toward making all
its publications available in electronic form. Ultimately, ACM
publications will be available only in electronic form.
This transition has raised questions in some universities about the
quality of papers published electronically and whether the review
of these papers meets traditional standards. Tenure and promotion
decisions have been based in part on the candidate's authorship of
printed refereed papers.
ACM's policy and procedures are designed to ensure a uniformly high
standard for all publications that the association identifies as
refereed, whether distributed electronically or in print. ACM has
preserved the traditional criteria and standards for appointing
editorial boards and refereeing papers, even as the medium of
distribution of the final results is changed from print to
electronic formats.
ACM warrants that scientific papers published electronically in ACM
refereed journals meet traditional scientific and engineering
standards and should be accorded equal stature with print
publication. University tenure and promotion committees can be
confident that ACM electronic publications are being refereed with
the same rigor and have been subjected to the same high standards
as the traditional printed archival publications. Faculty should
have no reservations about treating electronic publication in ACM
refereed journals as the equivalent to printed publication.
ACM invites other academic publishers to commit formally that their
refereed electronic publications meet the publisher's traditional
quality standards for their printed publications and are refereed
with equal academic rigor.
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ACM/Policy on the Quality of Refereed Electronic Publications. Last Update: 01/15/97 |
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