Editorial. The Advisory Board - American Chemical Society

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analytical chemistry

January 1974, Vol. 46, No. 1 Editor: HERBERT A. LAITINEN

EDITORIAL HEADQUARTERS 1155 Sixteenth St.. N.W. Washington D.C. 20036 Phone: 202k72-4600 Teletype: 710-8220151 Managing Editor: Virginia E. Stewart Associate Editors: Josephine M. Petruzzi Alan J. Senzel Assistant Editor: Andrew A. Husovsky PRODUCTION STAFF Art Director: Norman W. Favin Associate Production Managers: Leroy L. Corcoran Charlotte C. Sayre Editorial Assistant: Nancy J. Oddenino EDITORIAL PROCES~ING DEPARTMENT, EASTON. PA. Assistant Editor: Elizabeth R. Rufe

ADVISORY BOARD:Allen J.

Bard,

Fred

Baumann, David F. Boltz, E. G. Brame, Jr. Warren B. Crummett M. A. Evenson H e k y M. Fales, A. F. Gindeis Kennetd W. Gardiner, Jack M. Gill, Jianette G. Grasselli R. S. Jyvet Jr., Theodore Kuwana: Oscar Menis, Hkrold F. Walton

INSTRUMENTATION ADVISORY PANEL: Jonathan W Amy Stanley R. Crouch, Richard A. Durst, i. J. Kirkland, Ronald H. Laessig, Marvin Margoshes, Harold M. McNair, David Seligson, Howard J. Sloane

Contributing Editor: Claude A. Lucchesi

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The Advisory Board Each year, five new members are appointed for a three-year term to the editorial Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry to provide a fifteen-member board with rotating membership. The new members are selected by the Editor with advice from present and past members, as well as from the editorial staff. Selections are made to ensure representation from industry, academic institutions, and governmental agencies, and to encompass a wide variety of research specialties. The Advisory Board serves as a communication line between the practicing analytical profession and its Journal. A key function of Board members, especially during their first year, is to visit the Washington editorial offices and examine our files of reviewers. In a n operation of such a broad scope of subjects, it is essential that we be continuously alerted to newly emerging reviewers in the various subject areas. Reviewers may not necessarily be analytical chemists, or even chemists a t all, but they must be qualified to judge the acceptability of articles and to suggest improvements. At the annual Advisory Board meeting, operations of the past year are reviewed and special problems are brought up for discussion. Voluntary suggestions are often made by Board members, and these occasionally result in changes with deepseated consequences. During the three years of membership, each Board member becomes acquainted with our operating procedures and problems. Although the three-year term is minimal for this purpose, a term of relatively short duration is more attractive to busy professional people than a longer one. Also, it achieves one of our purposes-namely, the accumulation over a period of years of a special group of potential advisors who are thoroughly familiar with the editorial process. We feel free to call upon this group in later years for special advice and consultation. We do not call upon present or past Board members as such to act as referees on especially difficult manuscript decisions, but only insofar as their professional expertise qualifies them for such a role. Neither do we expect the Board t o make policy decisions, for we feel that both the responsibility and the authority for such decisions properly fall upon the editor and his staff. Membership on the Advisory Board is rightly considered as a professional distinction, and certainly it is a valuable contribution toward maintaining and improving the quality of our publication.

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