THE NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS Volume 24, Number 3 May/June 1997 PRESIDENT'S LETIER T ASPP Joufl1als Going On Line n my first President's Letter column in close watch on how this develops, since, as more I November, I identified the electronic publishing high-impact journals that are important to plant of Plant Physiology and THE PLANT CELL at the biologists go on line, direct interjournal searching head of my list of priority initiatives for ASPP. At the will add value for our subscribers. time I was optimistic that we could move signifi­ For those of you who hope never to have look at an cantly toward that goal during 1997, but I never electronic journal, you won't likely have anything to imagined we would actually have the journals on worry about for a while. It is clear that, at least for the line this year. Well, I am delighted to tell you that it near future, our journals will be published in both is now our expectation to have an electronic version electronic and their current paper forms. There are a III of both of our journals on line as of January 1998. number of reasons that scholarly journals will likely This on-line version will be full text and graphics, be in a hybrid publication mode for some years to including color reproductions. Subscribers will be come, with informational archiving perhaps the most able to print articles in standard page format central issue. A consequence of hybrid publication is complete with color reproductions limited only by that the costs of electronic publication are essentially the capabilities of available printers. In the elec­ added on top of the current costs for paper publica­ tronic version, the journals will be fully searchable tion. However, largely because our publications staff on key words, authors, and all the other standard has kept pace with rapidly developing publication stuff. technologies, the added cost for on-line versions of We intend to contract with HighWire Press to our journals is relatively modest; we estimate an provide these electronic services and those negotia­ annual additional recurring cost of about $75,000. tions are currently under way. HighWire is a for­ As I emphasized in my earlier column on this topic, profit subsidiary of Stanford University Libraries, a vital consideration for ASPP in moving into the and it currently provides services to more than 50 arena of network journal publication is the control of scholarly journals, including the Journal of distribution. As a Society, we are financially very Biological Chemistry and Science. HighWire Press dependent on the approximately $2 million generated and lBC On-line have recently developed a system from institutional library subscriptions. With for searching between HighWire Journals. This essentially half of the ASPP annual operating budget "interjournal searching" capability allows a reader coming from this single source, we must be very to follow a topic across journal boundaries. certain that we fully understand the laws and Currently the participating HighWire journals are practices that govern distribution and accessibility of limited to JBC, PNAS, Science, Journal ofNeuro­ network electronic journals both in this country and science, Journal ofClinical Investigations, and abroad. Moreover, the subscription trends for these Journal ofExperimental Medicine. We will keep new electronic versions continue to evolve as continued on page 3 .«,',:, INSIDE ... T Four Members Elected to NAS T ASPP Membership Trends T Plant Research Exhibit on Capitol Hill ASPP The 1997 OFFICERS &STAFF President Membership Directory Donald R. Ort (217-333·2093) President-Elect Kenneth Keegstra (SI7·35J,2270) has been shipped. Immediate Past President Bob B. 8uchanan (510·642·3590) Secretary If you did not receive Mary Jo Vesper (513·229·2502) Treasurer Mark Jacobs . (215·328·8039) your copy, contact Chair, Boord 01 Trustees Douglas D. Randall (573·882·4847) Chair, Publications Committee Samuel!. Beale (401·863·3129) Sharon Mulheron, Choir, Committee on the Status 01 Women in Plant Physiology Ruth Alscher (540·231·6761) phone Chair, Committee on Minority Allairs Eugene L. Vigil (301·594·3900) Elected Members 301-251-0560, ext. 29, Natasha V. Raikhel (517·353·35181 Elizabeth Vierling (602·621·1601) Wendy F. Boss (919·515.3496) fax 301-279-2996, Sectional Representatives Midwestern Daniel R. 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Davis, ext. 24 [email protected]; telephone ......................................................................... ([email protected]) 301-251-0560, ext.ll. Manuscript assistant, Aphrodite Knoop, ext. 25 « . ([email protected]) _ 2 -----------------------ASPPNEWS continued from page 1 BEACH'{, CROTEAU, KEEN, AND SOLL ELECTED TO ACADEMY publishers move toward charging the full subscription rates for the electronic versions. or the third year in a row, four members postdoctoral study in plant biochemistry at In other words, we, along with other Fof the American Society of Plant Oregon State University (with W. D. Loomis) publishers of network journals, are in the Physiologists have been elected to member­ and at Washington State University (with P. midst of an experimental period. ship in the National Academy of Sciences. E. Kolattukudy), where he joined the faculty To maximize the benefits of on-line Roger Beachy, Rodney Croteau, Noel Keen, in 1975. His research deals broadly with the publication to our membership while and Dieter Soli were recognized in a origin and function of terpenoids in plants, )' minimizing our financial vulnerability, the presentation ceremony at the Academy's including the monoterpenes (C IO sesquiter­ ) ) executive committee is considering the 134th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., penes (C 1S and diterpenes (C 20 involved in following general distribution guidelines. April 26, 1997. In 1996, ASPP members chemical defense and communication, and Institutional subscribers (primarily libraries) Maarten Chrispeels, Elisabeth Gantt, Brian that constitute the essential oils and resin will be required to subscribe to the print Larkins, and Chris Somerville were honored used in pharmaceuticals, flavors, and version, as is currently the case. To add the with membership, as were Bob Buchanan, fragrances and as industrial raw materials. subscription of the electronic version, the Elliot Meyerowitz, Ron Sederoff, and Steve His areas of interest range from biosynthetic institution will pay an additional fee for an Tanksley in 1995. pathway elucidation for complex terpenoids electronic site license that we estimate will Roger Beachy is professor and Scripps such as taxol, to enzyme structures and be approximately $400 in 1998. Individual Family Chair, department of cell biology, and mechanisms, to the cellular and molecular subscribers would be offered the option of head of the division of plant biology,