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Join TMS or Renew Your Membership for 2024

Now is an ideal time to join TMS or to renew your membership with the Society that the global minerals, metals, and materials community calls home. Membership in TMS is one of the best investments you can make in your career, and by acting now, you’ll ensure full access to your member benefits through December 2024.
 
Next month, the TMS 2024 Annual Meeting & Exhibition (TMS2024) opens for registration and only members can receive the deeply discounted member rate on attendance. Make sure your membership is up to date now so you’re ready to register in October.
 
Special Offer for Existing Members: If you are a current TMS professional, associate, or recent graduate member and you renew during the months of September or October, you will be eligible for a drawing to win a complimentary registration to TMS2024 in Orlando. So don’t hesitate; renew today for 2024. Eligible members will receive a follow-up reminder this week.
 
Not a current TMS member? Learn more about membership and how to join. Then sign up today to become a part of our international community of professionals working in industry, academia, and government.
 
Purchase Add-Ons: When you renew or join for 2024, consider purchasing additional benefits from TMS at a reduced rate, offered exclusively to our members. These optional benefits include:
  • Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IOM3) Joint Membership: TMS members may purchase a joint membership in IOM3 and receive a selection of electronic benefits from the U.K. engineering institution, whose activities encompass the whole materials cycle, from exploration and extraction, through characterization, processing, forming, finishing, and application, to product recycling and land reuse.
  • Brazilian Metallurgical, Materials and Mining Association (ABM) Joint Membership: TMS members may purchase a joint membership in ABM, which has a particular focus on the exchange of technical and scientific knowledge and the permanent pursuit of improvement of those professionals involved in metals and materials development. TMS members will receive a selection of electronic benefits at a reduced rate.
  • Light Metals Digital Library Subscription: This online collection has been recently updated to include more than 6,300 technical papers published from 1971 to 2015 as part of TMS’s signature Light Metals proceedings series, comprising the collected proceedings from Light Metals symposia held at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition each year.
  • OneMine Online Library Subscription: OneMine collects relevant technical papers associated with mining and minerals in one easy-to-navigate location. Gain access to an aggregate of technical documents, conference papers, and articles, including past editions of the popular EPD Congress proceedings series, published annually by the Extraction & Processing Division (EPD) of TMS.
You can learn more about these benefits through our Membership Add-Ons page.


Editor's Choice: Read Outstanding Papers from TMS Journals for Free

A limited number of Editor’s Choice articles from TMS journals are selected and made available to the public at no charge. This distinct honor is awarded to fewer than 5% of papers published in the respective journals each year. In addition to high-quality writing, these notable articles are distinguished by attributes such as outstanding science, innovative methods, impactful outputs, historical significance, and/or broad interest to the readership.

Click to read the following selections from recent issues for free:

September Journal of the Month
 
 
 
 
New from Journal of Electronic Materials
 
 
 
"Chlorination of ZnFe2O4 by Molten MgCl2: Effect of Adding CaCl2," Jingdong Huang, et al.

New from Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
 
"Incorporating Dislocation Mechanisms into a Phenomenological Cyclic Plasticity Model for Structural Alloys," Kwai S. Chan

TMS members can access the full content of all of these journals by logging in to the Journals section of the TMS website.