Policy Studies Organization

“The single member class are those individuals paying annual dues to receive all 14 published subscription journals. Each member has the same voting rights.”

“Members are elected at the annual meeting. All members attending the annual meeting can vote on all agenda items reguiring a member vote.”

“All members can vote at the annual meeting. Membership approves most matters after the fact at the annual meeting. To the extent future matters are put to a vote at the annual meeting, members are allowed to discuss and vote.”

“The governing board reviews the annual 990 in electronic form prior to paper filing with the irs.”

“Governing documents are made available to the general public upon specific written reguest.”

“By journals, books, videos, conferences, internet, pso helps policy makers, students, faculty, media, understand policy issues, and reaches 8,000 universities and libraries in 93 countries. Individual journal offices with host institutions sponsor conferences and research. Promotes internet use of museums for education and scholarships for students. The assets represented by the 38 journals and the 1000 books are not reportable under current usa accounting rules. A recent sba low interest loan is permitting expansion. The pso mission is to disseminate scholarship widely at low cost, and along with scholarships and grants it distributes its publications free of charge to over 6000 institutions in developing countries. A list is available at: https://registration.research4life.org/register/registrationlist.aspx? Language=en”

“Journals: journals remain the main source of income for the organization, specifically those that are published on our behalf by wiley and sage (sage during 2023 but no longer in 2024). As such, a main concern is to continue driving growth in terms of output and readership. Key metrics: article submissions: an increase from 1.68k in 2022 to 2.17k in 2023 for all journals. Articles published: an increase from 480 in 2022 to 500 in 2023. Readership/usage: an increase of full text views from 1.10m in 2022 to 1.24m in 2023. The pso owns the following journals: - policy studies journal - asian politics & policy - digest of middle east studies - latin american policy - european policy analysis - journal of critical infrastructure - journal of elder policy - policy & internet - politics & policy - popular culture review - poverty & public policy - risks, hazards & crisis in public policy - review of policy research - sculpture, monuments & open space - sexuality, gender & policy - world affairs - world food policy - world medical & health policy - world water policy - arts & international affairs - china policy journal - security & intelligence studies - indian politics & policy - international journal of criminology - international journal of open educational resources - thrivance: journal of indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing - journal of online learning research and practice - journal on ai policy and complex systems - enlightenment and freemasonry - the saber & scroll military history journal - space education & strategic applications - military history chronicles in addition, pso is currently developing the following journals: - world hindu journal, in cooperation with the american hindu foundation - journal of black community, in cooperation with the university of nebraska-omaha. The pso currently publishes 38 journals; 19 of these are with wiley. 6 are with the american public university system and the others are open with various groups.”

“Conferences: the conferences are meant to promote and support our journals by enlarging the potential networks of researchers looking for academic platforms to publish their research, reflected in the increase in articles submitted and articles published in the journals year after year. The conferences are also useful to create content (video recordings) that can serve as added value to the journals they are connected to. Our goal is to find ways to increasingly monetize this content. We currently receive about 5k in royalties for some of our videos and we think there is potential to increase that as we push for our journals to be increasingly used in curriculum development.”

“All of pso's digital assets are backed up, including the video library with about 660 video recordings of lectures and sessions held during our various conferences. Pso has donated various sculpture artworks in the dupont circle neighborhood in washington dc in cooperation with the cavanaugh foundation: https://democraticwoman.org/cavanaugh-sculpture-garden and more are planned in the coming years.”

“Pso's debt is a 30-year loan at 3% interest from the small business association.”