AIP Publishing Services to fulfill PNAS

For immediate release

Melville, NY, October 6, 2003 - The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing Services announced an agreement today for AIP to provide fulfillment and customer service for both the print and online editions of PNAS. The arrangement is effective immediately.

Jennifer Fleet, PNAS Production and Marketing Manager explained, "We consider AIP Publishing Services not merely a fulfillment vendor, but a partner in servicing our subscribers. As both a service provider with great systems and facilities and a not-for-profit society with scholarly publications of its own, AIP understands the issues PNAS faces in working with individual scientists, libraries and consortia."

"PNAS has a stellar reputation of publishing high quality scientific research across disciplines," said AIP's Director of Circulation and Fulfillment Services Lori Carlin. "AIP's circulation experience will provide the high level of customer service and timely, accurate fulfillment that PNAS's customers demand.

PNAS joins the 90 scientific publications published by 15 societies for whom AIP Publishing Services now provides fulfillment services.

AIP will provide the following services for PNAS:

track and maintain PNAS subscribers;
issue renewal invoices and process payments;
distribute and fulfill print and online subscriptions;
provide customized consortia processing, and
provide reporting, statistics and marketing tracking.

AIP Publishing Services is a division of the American Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit corporation chartered in 1931 to provide publishing and distribution services for scientific and technical societies. Its online publishing platform currently hosts over 100 scholarly publications for 19 learned society publishers, in fields including physics, chemistry, geology, engineering, acoustics, and other sciences.

PNAS is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Since its establishment in 1914, it has continued to publish high-impact research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, and colloquium papers. It is published by The National Academy of Sciences, a private, non-profit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. The Academy membership is comprised of approximately 1,900 members and 300 foreign associates who are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

For additional information, contact:

Carol Meyer
Maxwell Publishing Consultants
Phone: +1 781 729 6271
Mobile: +1 781 820 8528
Fax: +1 781 729 2676
E-mail: meyercarol@comcast.net

For background information, please see:

http://www.aipservices.org
http://www.aipservices.org/services/as_fulldist.html