ASM Journals Announce Online Price Freeze for 2010 Subscription Year

["Ridgeway, Nichole" <nridgeway@asmusa.org>]

ASM Journals (www.journals.asm.org) Announce Online Price Freeze 
for 2010 Subscription Year

Online subscription prices for the 9 research journals and 2 
review journals published by the American Society for 
Microbiology will not increase in the 2010 subscription year. The 
pricing freeze applies to all ASM online journals and bundles, 
including the All-ll, Basic, and Clinical packages. The base 
price increase for 2010 print subscriptions is a nominal 4%.

ASM understands the unique budget constraints that will frame 
librarians' decisions this year. Our 2010 pricing is a direct 
response to the academic library community's request to 
publishers for restraint in today's economic environment. The ASM 
Journals Program is committed to ensuring that all subscribers 
will continue to have access in 2010 to the important work 
published in ASM journals, which covers the full spectrum of 
basic and clinical microbiology research.

Despite the pricing freeze, ASM continues to improve online 
journal features to better serve researchers and librarians. In 
July 2009, ASM will launch redesigned online journal home pages 
that are clearer and easier to navigate. Figure and table 
searching functionality on the journals HighWire site, formerly 
available only to ASM member subscribers, now is available to all 
users. Beginning in late 2009, ASM journals will be indexed by 
Proquest's Illustrata and Serial Solutions' Summon to enhance 
library patrons' search capabilities. Subscribers will continue 
to have access to the complete archive of ASM journals dating 
back to 1916, as well as primary-research manuscripts posted 
immediately after acceptance, up to 12 weeks before final 
publication; COUNTER compliant usage statistics; straightforward 
and fair licensing terms that allow unlimited concurrent usage; 
long-term archiving via LOCKSS; and email based alerting systems.

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About ASM

The American Society for Microbiology is the oldest and largest 
single life science membership organization in the world. The 
Society's mission is to advance microbiological sciences through 
the pursuit of scientific knowledge and dissemination of the 
results of fundamental and applied research. ASM publishes 11 
professional journals: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy; 
Applied and Environmental Microbiology; Clinical Microbiology 
Reviews; Clinical and Vaccine Immunology; Eukaryotic Cell; 
Infection and Immunity; Journal of Bacteriology; Journal of 
Clinical Microbiology; Journal of Virology; Microbiology and 
Molecular Biology Reviews; and Molecular and Cellular Biology. 
With over 90 years of publishing experience, ASM journals 
continue to be an authoritative source for the latest in 
microbiology news.


Nichole Ridgeway
Marketing Manager, Journals
American Society for Microbiology
ASM Journals Institutional Subscription Office
P.O. Box 11127
Birmingham, AL 35202-1127 USA
Email: asmjournals@subscriptionoffice.com

www.journals.asm.org