Abstract

Rapidly rising costs for printing and distribution are placing increased pressure on the publication operations of scientific societies to reassess support from traditional revenue sources. The outlook for page charges, advertising, reprint sales, back-issue sales, subscriptions, and membership does support will be discussed. The American Chemical Society owns and manages 17 research-oriented publications with a combined circulation of 175 000. The variety of publications, review journals, pure research journals, engineering journals, and magazines, affords an opportunity to encounter most of the problems associated with publishing scientific materials.