Institutional Subscriber FAQs

for subscriber to HW Annals online only

1. My library subscribes to the Annals, but I can't get access to it online. Why?
Your institution may have not yet activated its institutional subscription to the Annals online. All institutional subscribers to the Annals in print also receive online access. Notify your library that you would like access to the Annals online, and encourage your librarian to activate the online subscription.
Email: annalsnyas{at}bos.blackwellpublishing.com

2. My institution has a subscription to the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and online access , but I'm not able to see the full text of articles. I'm prompted for a username and password. Why is this happening?
When this happens, the IP address for your machine is not being recognized by our computer. This failure is caused by one of three things:
Your institutional subscription has not yet been activated
The person who "activated" the online subscription did not enter in all needed IP addresses for your institution
The person who "activated" the online subscription does not realize that some subnets of your institution are routed through a proxy server

What should I do?
annalsnyas{at}bos.blackwellpublishing.com so we can begin to diagnose the problem.
Talk to your librarian, and let them know you are having trouble.

My institution allows remote access to its online subscriptions through use of proxy servers. Can access to the Annals Online be gained through a proxy server?
The administrator of each subscribing institution controls access by authorized users in that institution's community. This is established by identification of IP ranges in the subscription activation process. The range of authorized IPs can be updated at any time by the administrator, based on policies of the institution governing authorized use.

Who from my institution can access the Annals online?
The subscription allows for unrestricted Internet access at one location. Any user connecting from an authorized computer on your institutional network will be allowed online access to the Annals.

What is an Institution?
For the most part, an Institutional Subscription authorizes use at a localized site. A "site" is an organizational unit, and may be academic or nonacademic. For organizations located in more than one city, each city office is considered a different site. For organizations within the same city that are administered independently, each office is considered a different site. For example, each campus in the State University of New York system is considered a different site, and each branch or office of UpJohn Laboratories is considered a different site. For detailed information, please see Guidelines for Institutional Access.

How will the online access work?
When someone attempts to use the Annals online, our server checks to see if the requesting computer is within the list of internet IP address provided by a subscribing institution. If it is, the reader will be able to use all those services enabled for institutional readers. For institutional subscribers, there are no usernames or passwords to remember, and there is currently no limit on the number of readers from your institution who may access the Annals online simultaneously. If readers want online access to the Annals from computers that are not part of your institutional network (e.g., through dial-in or telnet through a commercial Internet service provider) they can do so only through a member subscription.

What subscription packages are available?
Institutional Subscribers have access to Tables of contents, abstracts, full text searching, full text display, PDFs, links to Medline and GenBank, future tables of contents, and document delivery. Access is limited to computers within a particular set of internet IP addresses.

Academy Members have access to Tables of contents, abstracts, full text searching, full text display, document delivery, PDFs, links to Medline and GenBank, future tables of contents, and the advantage of having password access to the Annals online from any computer connected to the Internet.

How can an institution subscribe?
Subscriptions can be purchased or renewed online at the Annals home page on the Blackwell site: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. You may also contact Blackwell Publishing Inc. for ordering information, claims, or any additional inquires related to institutional subscriptions

Subscribing is a two-step process:

First, you must follow your usual serial ordering procedures to subscribe to the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences either as print (ISSN 0077-8923)+ online or online only. Payment should be made to your subscription agent or directly to Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

Second, once your serial vendor or Blackwell has received payment, you will receive an email with instructions for obtaining online access to the Annals, after payment verification. The email will direct you to an online form. You will be asked to provide the following information necessary to activate your institutional subscription to the Annals online:

Institution's IP Address(es) - Read Critical Information about IP Addresses
Contact name, title, phone, fax, and email
Customer number (included with the email)

How can I tell if my institution has subscribed to the Annals online?
If your institution has a subscription, you'll automatically have access to the tables of contents, abstracts, full-text searching, full text display, PDFs, Medline and GenBank links, and future tables of contents. You'll also see your instition's name noted at the top right at the top of the page confirming you're signed in as part of an institution.

Can my institution subscribe only to the electronic version?
Yes. Please visit the subscription information page for subscription packages and pricing information.

Will we still be able to get the volumes in print? And for how long?
Yes, institutions and individuals will be able to receive the print volumes for the foreseeable future.

How can I get online access to the Annals if I am not a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and I don't have access through an institutional subscription?
You may wish to apply for Academy membership, use an institutional subscription, or pay per view for individual articles.