Chicago Journals announce in perpetuity access option

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For Immediate Release: September 21, 2006
Contact: subscriptions@press.uchicago.edu or (773) 753-3347, U.S. and Canada
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Chicago Journals announce in perpetuity access option

In response to feedback from the scholarly and library 
communities, the University of Chicago Press Journals Division 
announced today that it plans to introduce additional 
post-cancellation options for all electronic journals published 
by the University of Chicago Press and accessed through the 
University of Chicago Press Journals Division Web site, 
www.journals.uchicago.edu.

The University of Chicago Press recognizes that in perpetuity 
access to journal content is a concern for our library customers. 
We encourage clients to maintain active subscriptions to 
University of Chicago Press titles, which ensures unfettered 
access not only to the latest issues of a journal, but also to 
all archive content maintained on the University of Chicago Press 
Web site. The online editions hosted at www.journals.uchicago.edu 
contain supplementary information not available in the print 
version of the journal or on aggregated databases, including 
expanded methods, data sets, and video files.

Beginning in fall 2007, institutions and individuals who choose 
not to renew their electronic subscriptions to journals published 
by the University of Chicago Press may retain access to issues 
published during their subscription term for a small annual 
maintenance fee, which covers the technological and service costs 
of hosting the journal. Customers are automatically waived any 
annual maintenance fee to access electronic versions of both 
current and archived journal content when a subscription to a 
journal title is kept active.

Effective immediately, subscribers and post-cancellation 
subscribers may also opt to purchase a digital copy for local 
storage and retrieval of any issues to which they subscribed as 
an additional archival safeguard. The digital copy purchase price 
is set as low as possible and is intended to cover the costs of 
materials, labor, and shipping. For more information or 
purchasing specifics, please contact our Customer Service team at 
subscriptions@press.uchicago.edu or toll-free (877) 705-1878.

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About the University of Chicago Press: Founded in 1891, the 
University of Chicago Press is the largest American university 
press. The Journals Division currently publishes forty-seven 
periodicals and serials in a wide range of disciplines, including 
several journals that were the first scholarly publications in 
their respective fields. Online since 1995, the Journals Division 
has also been a pioneer in electronic publishing, delivering 
original, peer-reviewed research from international scholars to a 
worldwide audience.

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