Abstract
All of these achievements tell ALA that it is on the right track with JALA.
As scientists, we know it is important that our work be properly validated. We have standards and guidelines to which we compare our processes and outcomes. We make adjustments to ensure that we achieve meaningful results. The same is true for the JALA publishing team.
JALA volunteers, staff, and publishing partners work hard to keep current with publishing standards, trends, and opportunities. In the past 12 months, these efforts have been solidly validated by the scientific publishing industry.
The American Society of Association Executives presented a first place Gold Circle Award to JALA for overall excellence in peer-reviewed journal publishing. The Society of National Association Publications honored JALA for scholarly journal design excellence with a bronze Excel Award. Association Trends magazine recognized JALA for general excellence with a bronze All-Media Award.
The scientific community also recognized JALA's increasing importance in 2007. JALA was welcomed to the Compendex and Inspec indexing databases, bringing the total of the academic and professional databases in which JALA is included to nine, including ALA's own JALA Online; Elsevier's ScienceDirect, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, and Compendex; American Chemical Society's CAS+ and SciFinder; Royal Society of Chemistry's Analytical Abstracts; Institute of Engineering and Technology's Inspec; and CINAHL. These resources make JALA available to a broad spectrum of users, from hands-on health care providers to informatics engineers.
JALA was also featured prominently in the media in 2007. The international journal Science Editor, published by the Council of Science Editors, showcased JALA's role as a valuable educational tool in a feature story entitled “Mentorship at a Small Scientific Journal: The Case of JALA.” In addition, a special issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, published by Elsevier, featured a collection of 17 original reports, technical briefs, and tutorials that had been published originally in JALA.
ALA was also delighted to extend its agreement with JALA publishing partner Elsevier in 2007. We are proud to know that a publisher of Elsevier's stature recognizes the value of JALA's unique scientific niche, and is so well prepared to support it.
All of these achievements tell ALA that it is on the right track with JALA. Now, we need to ensure that you agree. JALA will conduct a reader survey in the ALA Member Center at LabAutomation2008. If you plan to join us for the conference, please take a moment to stop and tell us what you think about JALA. If you will not be in Palm Springs, please know that your comments are always welcome and appreciated.
Sincerely,
Douglas Gurevitch, P.E.
Thank You
The Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation sincerely thanks the many talented volunteers whose contributions resulted in six well-received, peer-reviewed issues of JALA in 2007.
Thank You 2007 JALA Guest Editors
Neil Benn, M.Sc.
Cenix Bioscience
Dresden, Germany
Special Issue: Programming Languages for Laboratory Automation
(JALA 12.1 February 2007)
Anthony Lozada, M.Sc.
Velocity11
Piscataway, NJ
Special Issue: LabAutomation2007
(JALA 12.5 October 2007)
Thank You 2007 JALA Authors
Keith Albert
Javier Alfonso
Karen Allison
Arne Allwardt
Kate Antolick
Diponkar Banerjee
Sarah Barrington
Scott Bartolett
Neil Benn
Russell Berman
Kenneth Bischoff
Titus Boggon
Bernadett Borcsek
Mangkey Bounpheng
John Bradshaw
David Broemeling
D. Brown
Cindy Bruckner-Lea
Angela Burrell
Tauseef Butt
Robert Byrnes
Matthew Cahn
Walter Cedeno
Grace Chan
Michael Cotta
Jo Coulson
Malcolm Crook
Csaba Csajagi
Richard Curtis
Ferenc Darvas
Suvro Datta
Dietrich Dehlinger
Yuzhong Deng
Vasumathi Dharmavaram
Brian Dockendorff
Patrick Dowd
Dieter Drexler
Ping Du
Greg Dummer
Ashton Easterday
Heather Edberg
Kurt Edinger
Andrew Ellington
Chance Elliott
Jim Elliott
Marcy Engelstein
Sadik Esener
Michail Esterman
Kurt Evans
Eoin Fahy
Xingwang Fang
Philip Farrelly
Ron Fourney
Chantal Fregeau
Terry Gaige
Aoife Gallagher
Phillip Gates-Shannon
Oliver Geschke
Navid Ghorashian
K. Gillard
Andrew Goldenberg
Jay Grate
Dianne Greenfield
Huidong Gu
Dylan Gunn
Doug Gurevitch
Daniel Haller
Nan Hallock
Steven Hamilton
Richard Hansen
Robert Harkness
Bill Harten
Thomas Hartmann
Ronald Hector
Michael Heller
L. Hendry
Quoc Hoang
Dalibor Hodko
Silke Holzmuller-Laue
S. Hughes
Stephen Hughes
Paul Hung
Sujata Iyer
John Jackson
Klavs Jensen
Scott Jensen
Laura Johnson
Richard Jones
William Jones
Cheyenne Kamran
A. Katiyar
Libby Kellard
P. Kemp
Tanya Knaide
Joseph Kofman
Ildiko Kovaks
Steffi Kreuzfeld
Vindhya Kunduru
Phillip Laplante
Philip Lee
Clare Leech
Stephen Lenk
Xin-Liang Li
Siqing Liu
Tony Lozada
Clinton Maddox
Marc Madou
Roman Marin
R. Scott Martin
Andre Marziali
Eugene Massion
I. Mawhinney
John McGiven
Laura Mecker
Jeffrey Mertens
Alex Mladenovic
James Mongillo
Kevin Moore
P. Morris
Tal Murthy
Peyman Najmabadi
Robert Newman
Krisztian Niesz
Christine O'Day
Yulia Ovechkina
Rich Ozanich
Tadas Panavas
Gerardo Perozziello
L. Perrett
David Povey
Shalini Prasad
Christina Preston
Justin Provchy
Nasib Qureshi
Lynn Rasmussen
Gayathri Ratnaswamy
R. Ready
Colin Reynolds
Joseph Rich
Steven Riedmuller
Dan Ritchie
Richard Rodriguez
M. Rollins
Brent Roman
Mark Russo
Ilka Schneider
Chris Scholin
Peter Simpson
Anthony Sinskey
Clifford Slaughterbeck
Jared Slobodan
Simon Smith
Letha Sooter
Benjamin Spaulding
J. Stack
David Sterner
Norbert Stoll
Paul Stoll
Regina Stoll
Timothy Straub
Shankar Subramaniam
Benjamin Sullivan
Paul Swanson
Kerstin Thurow
Han-Kuan Tsai
Justin Tzou
Cathy Valdez
Vipin Vijayakumar
Reinhard Vilbrandt
Masatetsu Wake
Leslie Walling
Yongcheng Wang
Courtney Ward
Marvin Warner
Hilmar Weinmann
Mathias Weippert
Christian Wendler
Kevin Wheeler
E.L. White
Roy Willis
Paul Wohnoutka
Tracy Worzella
Weiwei Xu
Craig Yensen
Zhiya Zhang
Wesley Zink
Thank You 2007 JALA Manuscript Reviewers
Nitin Agrawal
Gordon Alton
Mike Ashley
Thomas Astle
Arezou Azarani
Mark Beggs
Neil Benn
Tony Beugelsdijk
John Bradshaw
David Brandt
Justin Buckland
Andrew Bullen
Sandra Calarota
Andrew Carmen
Thomas Crevier
David Cumpstey
Raymond Dessy
Christian Dinter
Robert Doebler
Joerg Dreessen
Todd Edwards
Steven Fillers
James Gill
Peter Grandsard
Douglas Gurevitch
Steve Hamilton
Rifat Hamoudi
Thomas Hartmann
David Herold
Mark Herrmann
Steven Hoffman
Ying Huang
Stephen Hughes
Jeffrey Hurst
Stephen Jacobson
Paul Kayne
Steve Kubala
Anthony Lozada
Bob McDowall
Roger Mcintosh
Patrick Merel
Kevin Moore
Ben Moshiri
Carl Murray
Peyman Najmabadi
David Nirschl
James Paulson
David Pechter
shalini prasad
Steve Richmond
Kara Rubin
Mark Russo
Giles Sanders
Burkhard Schaefer
Reinhold Schaefer
David Semin
Toshiyuki Shiina
Peter Simpson
William Sonnefeld
Torsten Staab
James Sterling
Norbert Stoll
Tetsuro Sugiura
Helming Tan
Paul Taylor
Kerstin Thurow
Alain Truchaud
Richard Wagner
Tong Zhu
Juergen Zimmermann