JSTOR New Life Sciences Collection

Because your institution participates in both the HEALTH &
GENERAL SCIENCES and the BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES COLLECTIONS, I am
writing to you in advance of your 2008 annual invoice to let you know
of an important change to the collections.

Beginning in 2008 we will be combining the Health & General Sciences
and Biological Sciences collections into a single LIFE SCIENCES
COLLECTION. Our goal has always been to create a large,
intellectually coherent aggregation of science journals valuable to
users and to libraries. While we pursued this through the creation of
several discreet collections initially, it is increasingly clear to us
that we can maximize the benefits we aim to provide for the community
by bringing them together. An ecologist, for example, will need to be
reading articles in /Science/ and /PNAS/ as well as those published in
/Ecology/. These connections are reinforced by the thousands of
citations and references we have now located and are linking across
the journals in these collections.

THE ANNUAL ACCESS FEES AND THE ARCHIVE CAPITAL FEES FOR THE LIFE
SCIENCES COLLECTION ARE LOWER than they were for Health & General
Sciences and Biological Sciences. As a result, YOUR ANNUAL ACCESS FEE
FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES COLLECTION WILL BE LOWER than the combined AAF?s
that you had been paying for the individual science collections. You
can expect to see the Life Sciences Collection reflected on your
January invoice with the new, reduced AAF fee.

Additionally, YOU WILL BE RECEIVING A CREDIT FOR THE AMOUNT OF THE
ARCHIVE CAPITAL FEE that you previously contributed for the Health &
General Sciences and Biological Sciences collections. That credit
will be available to you when the Life Sciences Collection is
officially announced several weeks from now. We will notify you at
that time, and provide you options on how you may apply your credited
ACF fee.

We are delighted to be making this change in the way we offer the
science titles in JSTOR, and also to be able to reduce the fees for
the new collection for you. We trust that you will welcome this
decision. Please contact us at any time should you have any
questions.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy, and successful 2008!

Regards,

Jason E. Phillips
Associate Director, Library Relations
JSTOR

Tel: +1 (212) 358-6400
Email: participation@jstor.org[2]



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