Announcing ASCE Journals Preview Manuscripts

["Nara, William" <wnara@asce.org>]

For Immediate Release

ASCE Delivers Civil Engineering Research Faster with Preview 
Manuscripts - Publishing Journal Articles Online Six Months Ahead 
of Print

Reston, VA (May 2009) -- The American Society of Civil Engineers 
now publishes accepted journals' author manuscripts 
electronically, at authors' discretion, within 72 hours of 
acceptance before the final, copyedited version appears online 
and in print.  Benefiting authors, readers, and researchers, 
Preview Manuscripts provides the latest civil engineering 
research available at least six months before the final 
copyedited version is published.

These peer-reviewed manuscripts are citable technical resources 
and accessible to ASCE journals subscribers at 
www.ascelibrary.org.  They are also available for single article 
sale.

"Publishing author manuscripts ahead of print shortens the 
turnaround time of a technical paper from its acceptance to 
publication by six months or more," said Bruce Gossett, Managing 
Director of ASCE Publications, "This initiative not only 
publishes authors' research more quickly, but also ensure much 
faster public access to the newest civil engineering research 
science. It also allows readers to enjoy a largely expanded 
online database of civil engineering information."

Preview Manuscripts are citable by their official publication 
date and unique DOI.  Abstracts of accepted manuscripts are 
searchable at www.ascelibrary.org and full text in PDF file 
format is downloadable on the journal's Preview Manuscripts page. 
After a technical paper has been published in print, the original 
manuscript is still available to subscribers.

For more information on ASCE's Preview Manuscripts initiative, 
please visit http://pubs.asce.org/journals/pap/.

The ASCE Online Research Library is a full-text database 
containing more than 45,000 journal articles from all 31 ASCE 
journals (1983 to the present), and 21,000 proceedings papers 
from 190 ASCE conference proceedings. Coverage includes all 
disciplines of civil engineering research and its practical 
application.

Contact:
William Nara
Marketing Manager, Journals
703-295-6163
wnara@asce.org

Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 
represents more than 140,000 civil engineers worldwide and is 
America's oldest national engineering society. For more 
information, visit www.asce.org.

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