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<< back to the 2002 archive listing << Dairy, Food and Environmental Sanitation Commentary From The Executive Director Have you tried JFP Online yet? This month I want to call to your attention two online services recently initiated by the Association. Have you tried JFP Online yet? Hurry, hurry – JFP Online is available for your use FREE through August 31, 2002! We received lots of interest in placing the Journal of Food Protection Online and now it is a reality! Start at the IAFP Web site (www.foodprotection.org) and look for the JFP Online logo to learn how to gain access to JFP Online. JFP Online allows Members from around the world, immediate access to the latest JFP articles without having to wait for the mail service to deliver the Journal to their door. There are many convenient features of JFP Online including a “Table of Contents Alerting Service” that will notify you via E-mail when the latest issue of JFP is available online. Articles are fully searchable by title, author and key words to make your literature search very easy. Reference linking is also available to other online journals or abstracting services. This “trial” offer allows you to try JFP Online with no obligation to continuing the service, so take advantage of the opportunity before it is too late. Beginning September 1, 2002, JFP Online will be offered to Members at a cost of only $3 per month or $36 annually. For this fee, you will have access to all online issues of the Journal of Food Protection. Currently, we have the 2002 volume year available (January through June). We will add each additional issue on a monthly basis as they become available. After September 1, we will begin work on adding the 2001 volume year to JFP Online that will allow Internet access to those articles. As funding permits, we will be able to add earlier volume years to our archives. So try out JFP Online today – before it is too late! We know that you will like the convenience and low cost access to the leading journal in food microbiology, the Journal of Food Protection. The second online service I want to call to your attention to is the ability to renew your Membership online. Just last month, we began sending an E-mail notice to Members due for renewal. Included in the E-mail was a link that takes you to a renewal form with your name, address and other pertinent information already filled out for a quick and easy renewal. After clicking the link and arriving at the renewal form, simply review your name and address for correctness, make any necessary changes and then complete the form by including credit card information to renew your Membership. One very important element of the online renewal is that we are able to extend the same discounts for early Membership renewal just as we were doing with our paper invoicing system. We hope that you will take advantage of this new service that will assist IAFP
to save resources used to prepare and mail paper invoices. Be on the lookout
for your E-mail and online renewal for your Membership in the International
Association for If you have questions or comments about either of these new online services, feel free to call our office or write me at E-mail: dtharp@foodprotection.org. Thank you for your support of IAFP! |