Access control began June 12, 2002. Full text retrieval now requires paid subscription.
The following free services will continue:
- All tables of contents, subject listings and abstracts will continue to be available free of charge.
- All searches, including cross-journal searches, will continue to be available free of charge.
- Table of contents of the upcoming issues will continue to be free of charge, placed online as future table of contents approximately one month before publication.
- "eTOCs", electronically mailed announcements and tables of contents will continue to be available on a free listserv. Enrolment (and modification of options) is available through the eTOCs information page.
- The Web site will continue to provide access to information about the journal (such as Instructions to Authors, the Editorial Board, and subscription information and on-line subscription ordering), as well as access to other services, including JSTOR (to paid JSTOR subscribers).
For paid subscribers:
- The American Journal of Botany Online will provide the full content of each issue of the journal, including all figures and tables.
- Each article will be provided in two formats: (1) a hyperlinked Web-oriented format and (2) a PDF-based reprint format.
- Access is provided at least one week prior to print.
- Members of BSA may publish in the Journal and receive an annual allowance of up to 8 pages free of editorial charges (combined total of up to 12 pages per article).
- CiteTrack, an e-mail notification service, is available to individual subscribers. This provides coverage of a wide spectrum of leading HireWire Press and PubMed journals for specific key words, taxa, topics or authors. Let a robot scan for your key words!
For all visitors:
- Full text is searchable by keyword, cited references include hyperlinks to Medline and to the full text of many other online journals.
- Online content begins with abstracts from the January 1997 issue, expands to PDF reprints with the February 1997 issue and full text coverage with the September 1998 issue. The collection expands each month with a new issue.
- We encourage you, on your first visit to the site, to sign the guestbook. This will take only a minute or two, and will give us helpful information about who the online readers are, and how they are connecting to us. In addition, we would appreciate comments, critiques, questions, or suggestions from you; these can be sent via the Feedback button found on all pages of the site. Feedback from readers will help us decide what new features would be most valuable for the site, and how well it is working for its readers.
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