The Tennessee Academy of Science sponsors a peer-reviewed journal containing research articles, information about the Academy, minutes of Executive Committee meetings, budget information, abstracts of papers presented at annual meetings, and abstracts of papers presented at collegiate division meetings. The Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science is edited by Dr. Justin Oelgoetz. The Assistant Editor is Dr. Gilbert Pitts

Issues of the journal are mailed to all members not in arrears for dues.

The cost of single copies of back issues is $10 each; requests should be directed to Dr. Steve Murphree, TAS Treasurer, Biology Dept., Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Blvd., Nashville, TN 37212-3757.

The TAS Executive Committee vote to eliminate page charges for TAS Members!

Going forward, there will be no page charges for submissions to the journal as long as one of the authors is a TAS member. There will be a charge of $35/page if none of the authors are TAS members.

To access the journal, simply point your web browser to https://meridian.allenpress.com/jtas and log in (there is a button in the upper right). If you subscribe to other journals published by Allen Press you likely already know how to log in. But if this is your first journal subscription with Allen Press your user name is your email (the one you provide to TAS) and your password has been set to something random. To reset it just go here

If you have any issues Allen Press’s technical team are ready to help, but due to the holiday they will be out until Monday. They can be contacted using the webform here

We encourage participation in the publication of the Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science. If you would like additional information, please contact the Managing Editor:

As you all know peer review is an important part of the scientific process. I currently have 4 articles under review, 2 of which I’m having a problem finding reviewers for (one in agriculture: animals, another in medical science). Without reviewers we can’t publish.

So my request: would you consider serving as a reviewer? If you would please reply to this email and let me know your name, title, highest relevant degree, and what fields you think you would be competent in. Think not just broadly (like Physics, Medical Science, Agriculture or Biology — although if you feel up to reviewing any Physics paper, feel free to says so!) but think about what undergraduate classes you would feel comfortable teaching and try to cobble together as broad of topic categories as you can (like say Agriculture: Crops, or Biology:Animals, or Biology:Vertebrates). In addition to adding you to the stable of reviewers, I’ll use your responses to help frame new categories for papers going forward.

If you are already a reviewer or have already volunteered, please reply and tell me your areas too — lots of folks int he database don’t list areas, and I can’t claim to know everyone. The update will help!

Thanks in advance,

Justin Oelgoetz

If you wish to serve as a Reviewer, or in any other capacity, please contact the Managing Editor: