Membership

How Can You Join Us?

In addition to our affiliate societies and their members, NCIS has two categories of individual members.

• Full members
• Associate members

To apply for a full membership, please complete this application form and mail it with payment to NCIS.

To apply for an associate membership, please complete this application form and mail it with payment to NCIS.

NCIS welcomes as full members people who are pursuing knowledge in or across any fields, but whose research, unlike that of full-time faculty, is not supported by an institution. Qualification for membership shall be work of scholarly merit or other indications of scholarly purpose. Although a graduate degree may serve as indication of scholarly purpose, it is not necessary for membership.

Full members of NCIS may:

• Be listed in the annual Membership Directory
• Stand for Board elections and vote for the Board
• Receive the quarterly newsletter, The Independent Scholar, in electronic form,
  and the annual Membership Directory.
• Obtain information from the membership database
• Qualify for discounts on registration for conferences
• Have their electronic addresses included in this web page, if they wish to do so.

NCIS welcomes as associate members all who wish to support our efforts. Associates may

• Receive The Independent Scholar in electronic form
• Purchase the annual Membership Directory and other NCIS publications at discounts
• Qualify for discounts on registration for conferences.