Membership

Call for Dues 2012

Anyone with an interest in Microbial Ecology can become a full member of ISME.

Membership fees for 2012 are as follows:

MembershipFee
Student Society + Online Journal Member (1 year membership)EUR 65.00
Regular Society + Online Journal Member (1 year membership)EUR 105.00
Regular Society + Online Journal Member (2 year membership)EUR 190.00
Regular Society + Online & Printed Journal Member (1 year membership)EUR 135.00
Regular Society + Online & Printed Journal Member (2 year membership)EUR 245.00

The above rates require some explanation, as there is not a substantial decrease of the membership fee for the “on-line only” membership as compared to the membership fees in former years, when also printed versions of the journal were supplied to our members.

The reason is that our publisher, NPG, has now decided to charge the market prices of the journal from 2012 onwards. In the earlier, first, period of the journal’s existence, NPG charged ISME members a discount price. This also implies that the prices that the publisher charges for the combined “on-line and printed version” membership have increased substantially.

As the Board of ISME would like to encourage on-line only subscriptions of the journal we have decided to press on to the members that prefer the combined journal subscription, the full price that the publisher applied.

Membership includes free access to The ISME Journal.
NPG offers to ISME members a 50% off a one year subscription to Nature Reviews Microbiology.
ISME Members will benefit from reduced registration fees at the biennial ISME Symposia.  For additional benefits, please click here.

Please note that ISME memberships are in calendar years (from January until December).

When you become a member later than January, you will receive all the missing issues of The ISME Journal* from that year but you will only be a member until the end of the (calendar) year.

*only for regular memberships that include the printed version of The ISME Journal.

 

If your country is a so called LOW INCOME COUNTRY, your institute/ university might be eligible to receive free access to The ISME Journal via: "The Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)". This provides free (or very low) cost online access to the major journals in science, amongst which The ISME Journal, to not-for-profit institutions in developing countries.

To find out more about HINARI and to find out if your country is eligible, click here
(or visit: http://www.who.int/hinari/about/en/ )

 

 

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