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PUBLISHER and EDITOR

JSOM–SOMA Relationship please contact SOMA at SOMA@kellen
company.com so they can provide you
I want to take another opportunity to with the code.
explain the Special Operations Medical
Association (SOMA) member benefit JSOM Website Updates
of the Journal of Special Operations Michelle DuGuay Landers
Medicine. SOMA membership includes In the past few months, we have made
a benefit of a subscription to the JSOM. Whether you significant upgrades to our website and to the services
receive the print or digital depends on where you receive we are offering our subscribers. As you know, we spent
the journal. a significant amount of time redesigning and refreshing
our website—first, to give it a new and contemporary
The “print” copy of the JSOM is sent quarterly for mem- look and feel and, second, to make the site mobile com-
bers with a domestic US-based address, to include APO. patible. In doing so, visitors should now
Please be sure you provide SOMA with a have a similar experience across all plat-
complete and deliverable USPS forms, whether desktop, laptop, phone,
address. International members or tablet.
of SOMA receive the “digital”
version of the JSOM as part of We have also upgraded our subscription
their membership. To access the software. This upgrade gives us more-
JSOM, you will need to log in on responsive forms for our subscribers
the JSOM website at https://www as well as better account management
.jsomonline.org/signin.html. Your both for us here at the JSOM and for
user name and password are the the individual subscriber. The main
e-mail address you provided with upgrade noticeable to the user is the
your SOMA membership. password reset function. If you for-
get your password while trying to
The digital subscription offers access log in, you will now be able to enter
to all editions of the JSOM in a flip- your e-mail address into the lost
book format, as well as access to all password box and you will receive
our articles in full-text at https://www a link to reset your password.
.jsomonline.org/Articles.html. Articles
are search able by authors, keywords, The third upgrade moved our
or journal edition. sites to newer, more-powerful
serv ers. We have doubled the
All new SOMA members receive the number of processors available
20% discount Promo Code to the JSOM to our customers and have dou-
in the welcome e-mail that they receive af- bled the amount of memory dedicated to
ter they join and are approved. The Promo our sites as well. The database servers that drive our
Code enables the member to upgrade to a print and sites were upgraded at the same time. You should
digital by adding to their subscription if they choose notice a marked increase in speed when browsing our
to do so. This code will be entered when the SOMA website.
member goes to the JSOM website subscription page.
The direct link to our subscription page is https://www We are researching some other improvements to the
.jsomonline.org/OSS81/signup.php. When you are fill - site as well as some other avenues to improve the jour-
ing out your JSOM subscription profile, there is a nal’s visibility across the SOF, Tactical, and Wilderness
place to enter the Promo Code right after you enter Medical communities. We will certainly keep everyone
your last name. The 20% will be automatically taken informed as those improvements come to pass.
off at time of payment. If you do not have the code, (continues on page x)

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