Apologies for cross-posting. We encourage our customers who will be
attending the ACRL Conference and Exhibition this week in Baltimore to
stop by Booth 1155 with any questions or comments about the change in
policy in the announcement that follows. Access to 2001 volumes should
be available through our HighWire Press site as of today. Please contact
INFORMS Marketing and PR Director Barry List ([log in to unmask])
for further information.

Hanover, MD, March 26, 2007 - INFORMS 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
also 2008. 
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS(r)), 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, and
Organization Science in its list of academic journals used to evaluate
MBA programs.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS(r)) 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
<http://www.informs.org/> . More information about operations research
is at www.scienceofbetter.org <http://www.scienceofbetter.org/> . 
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Patricia S. Shaffer
Director of Publications
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
7240 Parkway Drive, Suite 310, Hanover, MD 21076
(443) 757-3500 ext. 570; Direct line: (443) 757-3570
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