Online Subscription Prices Freeze for 2010 Subscription Year

Subscription prices for the 9 research journals and 2 review journals will not increase in the 2010 subscription year for ASM members. The pricing freeze applies to all ASM online journals and bundles, including the All-ll, Basic, and Clinical packages, as well as print subscriptions.

Institutional online subscriptions will also maintain 2009 pricing. The base price increase for institutional print subscriptions is a nominal 4%.

ASM understands the unique budget constraints that will frame subscribers’ decisions this year. Our 2010 pricing is a direct response to the academic 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 launched redesigned journal home pages that make it easier to read and 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.

For information on member subscriptions, please contact service{at}asmusa.org.

For an institutional quote, please contact asmjournals{at}subscriptionoffice.com.