IEEE Policies

In addition to the policies and procedures presented in Section 7, Part A, the following specific modifications and/or additions to those policies are approved for use within the United States. 

7.300   IEEE-USA Publications  

The area of IEEE-USA publications represents a broad spectrum of divergent social, economic, and legal issues.  It is therefore in the best interests of the IEEE that procedures used for IEEE-USA publications incorporate the views of experts in the discipline involved as well as members of the IEEE to ensure both suitability and correctness of the material.

1. It is IEEE-USA policy to encourage publication of booklets, monographs, conference proceedings, and so forth, which discuss non-technical, social, economic, and legal issues, subject to a suitable editorial process.
   

2. The President – IEEE-USA shall appoint an IEEE-USA Editorial Review Committee for IEEE-USA publications to provide for appropriate review and approval.
   

3. The IEEE must, out of necessity, assume that material presented at its meetings or submitted for its publication is properly available for general dissemination to the audiences that these activities are organized to serve.  It is the responsibility of the authors, not the IEEE, to determine whether disclosure of their material requires the prior consent of other parties and, if so, to obtain it prior to submission to the IEEE.