What a Community Holds

Behind a community’s tabs sit its conferences, its journals and book series, and everything published in them. Not every community holds all of it — but where it does, the parts connect.

What sits behind each tab

A community’s tabs are its contents page. What is behind them depends on what kind of community it is — an academic society carries the fullest set, and a classroom or an interest group carries far less.

A missing tab is not a fault. It means that community does not hold that kind of thing.

Events — its conferences

Every conference the community runs, with what is currently open on each one — a call for proposals, registration, or neither if it has already happened. Past conferences stay listed; that is where the archives live.

Members receive 15% off event registration. Be a member before you register, not after.

Publishers and Publications

Two tabs, easily confused, and the difference is worth holding on to.

  • Publishers — the mastheads. The journals, journal collections and book imprints the community publishes under
  • Publications — the works. The articles and books that have actually come out in them

Where your membership covers a work, it offers Download in place of a price. That is the clearest sign of what a membership is worth.

How the parts connect

In an academic society the tabs are not four separate lists. They are one process, running left to right: the community holds a conference, accepted proposals become presentations, a presentation can be published under one of its publishers, and the finished work appears in Publications and in the Bookstore.

Knowing the chain tells you where you are in it — and what the next step could be.

The people

Under More sit the member, follower and administrator lists. Administrators are the ones to write to when nothing on the page answers your question.

Frequently Asked Questions

This community has fewer tabs than the last one

Expected. The tab set follows the community’s type. An academic society carries conferences, publishers and pricing; a classroom or an interest group generally does not.

What is the difference between Publishers and Publications?

Publishers is the list of mastheads — the journals and book series. Publications is the list of works that have appeared in them.

Why does one article say Download and another show a price?

Because your membership covers the first. Where a community includes its content in membership, the price is replaced by Download.

Do I have to present at a conference to be published?

The conference is the usual route in an academic society, but you can also submit directly.

Where do past conferences go?

They stay on the Events tab. That is where recordings and archives from previous years are reached.

The community has no Events tab at all

Then it does not run conferences. Nothing is missing — that is simply not what this kind of community holds.