Member Benefits
Services Offered to Members and Non-Members
Financial Members (Lifetime; Ordinary; Associate; Student)
- Discounted registration for the biennial SST conferences, plus any other Australian or overseas conferences which are co-sponsored by ASSTA;
- One free copy of SST proceedings whether or not the member attends the conference, as long as he or she is financial at the time of the conference;
- One free hard copy of the ASSTA research directory each time this is published;
- Other publications which ASSTA may from time to time make available and which the Executive Committee decide should be free or at least discounted for financial and IAB members;
- Free personal advertisements in the newsletter;
- Voting rights at all General Meetings (Ordinary and Student Members only);
- The opportunity to create and modify a personal or research group entry on the ASSTA WWW directory service;
- The opportunity to take advantage of the National Lecture Tours Programme;
- Quarterly newsletters;
- Regular Electronic Bulletins if the member has email facilities;
- The opportunity to submit papers for the biennial New Researcher Awards, if eligible under the relevant guidelines;
- In addition, along with unfinancial and non-members, access to ASSTA's home page and related electronic services.
Unfinancial Members (Ordinary; Associate; Student)
- Unfinancial members will automatically lose items i) to ix) inclusive that are available to financial members;
- Unfinancial members will continue to receive newsletters and electronic bulletins for six months after they become unfinancial. A note will appear in the second (June) issue of each volume of the newsletter reminding unfinancial members that this will be their last newsletter unless they become financial;
- Members who are unfinancial at the due date for submissions for the New Researcher Awards, and who would otherwise be eligible under the relevant guidelines, may still submit a paper as long as they become financial at the same time;
- In addition, along with financial and non-members, access to ASSTA's home page and related electronic services.
Financial Corporate Members
- One free copy of SST proceedings, as long as the Corporate Membership is financial at the time of the conference;
- One free hard copy of the ASSTA research directory each time this is published;
- Other publications which ASSTA may from time to time make available and which the Executive Committee decide should be free for Corporate members;
- The opportunity to take advantage of the National Lecture Tours Programme;
- Acknowledgement of membership in all appropriate ASSTA publications;
- The opportunity to create and modify a research group entry on the ASSTA WWW directory service.
IAB Members
- Free registration to SST conferences in return for chairing responsibilities;
- One free hard copy of the ASSTA research directory each time this is published;
- Other publications which ASSTA may from time to time make available and which the Executive Committee decide should be free or at least discounted for financial and IAB members;
- Quarterly newsletters;
- Regular Electronic Bulletins if the member has email facilities;
- The opportunity to take advantage of the National Lecture Tours Programme;
- In addition, along with financial and unfinancial members, access to ASSTA's home page and related electronic services.
Non-Members
- Along with financial and unfinancial members, access to ASSTA's home page and related electronic services;
- Any publication or item of publicity that the Executive Committee from time to time decides should be made available to non-members who may be interested.
Adopted by the ASSTA Executive - 3rd September 1996. It shouldbe noted that this set of guidelines is not a legally bindingdocument but provides a guideline to practice for the ExecutiveCommittee.
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