TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee (PRAC)

For information regarding the reporting structure, scope and functions of this committee, please refer to its charter and the TAB Operations Manual.

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Committee Business

Guidelines for Agenda Item Submission

Review Schedule

2009 - 2013 Review Schedule (PDF, 74KB) Contains both the SRC (on page one) and PRAC (on page two) review schedules.

Review Documents

PLEASE NOTE: Submit review reports as Microsoft Word documents. Please keep all the sections in order. Please do not omit any sections.

Society/Council Template (DOC, 149KB)
ASPP Template (DOC, 199KB)
Multi-Society Template (DOC, 165KB)
Multi-Society ASPP Template (DOC, 165KB)

Process Documents

TAB Periodicals Review and Advisory Committee Processes (PDF, 74KB)
Sample Review Timeline (PDF, 19KB)

Committee Objectives and Responsibilities

The Committee is charged with:

Ensuring the Timeliness and Quality of TAB publications
Assessing proposals for new publications and making recommendations to TAB
Resolving conflicts between S/C on issues of publications
Informing TAB on new developments in the area of publications
Assessing and recommending to TAB annual charges for publications

To carry out its responsibilities to TAB, and in particular to address the issues of timeliness and quality, the Periodicals Committee has instituted a Five-Year Review of S/C Periodicals. New periodicals are reviewed within the first two years of launch date.

The objectives of the Periodicals Review are to:

Examine timeliness and quality
Assure that the publications comply with IEEE policies & procedures
Assist the S/C in enhancing self awareness of its publications
Determine the financial health of the publications
Provide suggestions for improvements
Determine best practices to share with other S/C

NOTE:

This committee does not conduct meetings that require agendas and minutes.
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