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In article <1992Oct12.231905.7134@orbital.demon.co.uk>, steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk (Stephen Hebditch) writes:
|> Is it purely a historical reason that the ACM publishes its Transactions
|> separately from the SIGs or are there other reasons?

SIG newsletters and Transactions journals have two, completely
different purposes.  The newsletters contain unrefereed papers as well
as SIG administrative matters.  The Transactions are official,
refereed, scientific journals.  If you see a paper in Computer
Graphics, you can use its results, but remember that it has not been
peer-reviewed.  Ostensibly, you were able to gain access to the paper
that much sooner, since the review process can be lengthy.  Papers in
Transactions carry more weight, since they have been reviewed, but take
correspondingly longer to see print.  My understanding is that as far
as academic "publishing" is concerned, in most universities, only
peer-reviewed journals count.

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