The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®), publisher of 11 highly regarded scholarly journals and an online open-access journal, today announced that it has updated its online subscription policy and is providing institutional online subscribers with additional volumes for the balance of 2007 and 2008.
Under the new policy, INFORMS will offer 2007 and 2008 subscribers access to relevant journal volumes published back to and including 2001. Previously, 2007 institutional subscribers had access to INFORMS journals published from 2002 forward. The association is modifying its rolling wall subscription policy in response to the concerns of librarians.
Patricia Shaffer, Director of Publications for INFORMS, said “Some librarians have contacted us about the online subscription policy of STM academic publishers like INFORMS. We want them to know that we appreciate the financial pressure on librarians and that our basic goal has always been to keep INFORMS subscription prices reasonable while covering our operational costs, including the growing costs of electronic publishing. We modified our policy to address these concerns, and to make sure that our institutional subscribers have access to online volumes that were included with their subscription last year.”
INFORMS is also developing an archival product and policy that will be compatible with the needs of institutional subscribers and the association’s business model. The archive will cover electronic versions of many volumes not previously available to libraries. INFORMS first began publishing in 1952, and the archives will include all journal issues published since the society’s inception. The association- expects to make an announcement about the new product later this year.
INFORMS publishes 11 print/online scholarly journals: the flagships Operations Research and Management Science, as well as Decision Analysis, Information Systems Research , INFORMS Journal on Computing, Interfaces, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Marketing Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Organization Science, and Transportation Science. INFORMS also publishes the online open-access journal INFORMS Transactions on Education.
About INFORMS
INFORMS journals are strongly cited in Journal Citation Reports, an industry source. In the JCR subject category “operations research and management science,” Operations Research and Management Science ranked in the top 10 along with the INFORMS Journal on Computing.
The special MBA issue published by Business Week includes the INFORMS journals Operations Research, Management Science and Information Systems Research in its list of 20 top academic journals that are used to evaluate business school programs. Financial Times includes Operations Research, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Marketing Science, and Organization Science in its list of academic journals used to evaluate MBA programs.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and telecommunications. The INFORMS website is www.informs.org. More information about operations research is at www.scienceofbetter.org.
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