IAFSS New Technologies Committee:

June, 2013 UpdateMembers:

Michael Gollner, ChairGuillermo Rein

Amanda Robbins Ed GaleaTerry Fay

Peter SunderlandRory Hadden

Recent Committee Activities

• LinkedIn Group• Newsletter (Fire Safety Science News)• New Website (www.iafss.org)– Publication Archive

LinkedIn Group

LinkedIn Group

• Started July, 2011• Total Members: 585

Fire Safety Science News

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• Features:– Recent News– Upcoming Events– Membership

Registration– Open Positions– Publications– Newsletter– Committees

Open For Submissions

• Recent News– e.g. Conference updates, Organization news, etc.

• Upcoming Events– e.g Conferences, Symposia, Workshops, etc.

• Open Positions– Currently accepting those academic in nature

Certain submissions currently reviewed by Arnaud Trouve and Christopher Wieczorek, following the guidelines approved by the IAFSS Executive Committee

2012 Website Statistics

Jan 1, 2012 – Jan 1, 2013

• Weekly visit cycle• Large increase before IAFSS conference paper deadline (2013)• Low numbers before Feb, 2012 - old website, statistics not included

User Location Statistics

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Membership Registrations

• Membership Registrations through web• Oct. 2011 – Jan 2013• 714 total

This figure is not perfectly accurate, as we track a visit to a page visitors are directed to after registration, but does give us a good idea of the relative number

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Publication Statistics

• Open access has appeared to have an impact on IAFSS paper visibility

• From June 9,2012 – June 9, 2013– 17,289 paper views– 2012 confirmed paper downloads

• Mar 9, 2013 – Jun 9, 2013– 4,965 paper views– 1396 confirmed paper downloads

Download statistics are only tracked for the new website as they are not available for the old one (before Feb., 2012).

Search Engine Statistics

Jan 1, 2012 – Jan 1, 2013