Updated: 3 March 2010  3:30 pm EST

Information for Librarians and Other Institutional Subscribers

This page provides information on subscribing to AACR Journals, through print subscriptions or site licenses. We hope that you will find it useful as a quick-reference guide to the AACR Journals.

1. AACR's Mission

The AACR's mission is to accelerate the prevention and cure of cancer through research, education, and communication. Founded in 1907, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is a professional society of more than 24,000 laboratory and clinical scientists engaged in basic, translational, and clinical cancer research in the United States and over 60 other countries. Its principal activities include:

1. The publication of six major peer-reviewed scientific journals (Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics; Molecular Cancer Research; Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; Cancer Prevention Research).
   
   
2. Holding an Annual Meeting that attracts more than 16,000 participants who share new and significant discoveries in the cancer field.
   
   
3. Organizing AACR's special conferences throughout the year, focusing on all the important areas of basic, translational, and clinical cancer research.
   
   
4. Organizing educational programs for scientists through summer educational workshops and other activities.

2. Our Commitment to the DC Principles

The American Association for Cancer Research helped develop and strongly supports the Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science. These principles emphasize the traditional commitment of not-for-profit publishers to worldwide dissemination of science, within the context of proven and realistic publishing models, and support experimentation with new models.

3. Free Archive Information

The AACR Journals website allows free access to all journal abstracts upon publication and to the full text of articles 1 year after publication. AACR Journal back issues extend to 1998 or 1999, and loading of a complete archive is complete.

The AACR also participates in the HINARI Access to Research Initiative which provides free or discounted access to the full text of the journals to institutions in developing countries.

4. Pay-Per-View Access

All AACR Journals offer pay-per-view access to any current article.

Users without a subscription have access to journal search functions, the Tables of Contents, articles more than 1 year old, and the journal abstracts at no cost and without having to register.

Two pay-per-view options are available for users who are not subscribers but would like temporary access to full-text articles.

Pay-per-view: $35.00 for access to a single article for 24 hours.
Pay-per-admission: $50.00 for access to an entire journal site for 24 hours.

To purchase access, follow the links under pay-per-view on the Sign-In page. This page will appear when you try to access a full-text article.

5. About the AACR Journals

All five AACR Journals are ranked in the top 25% of oncology journals in terms of Impact Factor (the AACR Journal Cancer Prevention Research launched in 2008 and will receive its initial Impact Factor in June 2010).

With a combined circulation of several thousand institutional subscribers and over 24,000 individual cancer researchers, AACR's six peer-reviewed journals are the best choice for cancer research information you can make for your patrons, with more than 26,000 pages of original research published each year. The journals are anchored by the esteemed journal Cancer Research, the most frequently cited cancer journal in the world.

6. Supporting the Library Community

AACR is committed to supporting librarians and the library community through the sponsorship of MLA and EAHIL events, advertising and exhibits, as well as collaborating with librarians to bring the best information to their user communities.

7. Print Subscriptions

A variety of discount packages for print subscriptions are offered to institutions. The 6-Journal Discount Package is our best value and provides the AACR's full spectrum of cancer research to your patrons.

Subscribing to a 6-Journal Discount Package

• Cancer Research (CanRes) — twice monthly
• Clinical Cancer Research (CCR) — twice monthly
• Molecular Cancer Research (MCR) — monthly
• Molecular Cancer Therapeutics (MCT) — monthly
• Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (CEBP) — monthly
• Cancer Prevention Research (CaPR) — monthly

eJournals

• Cancer Reviews Online (CRO) — monthly
• Cancer Prevention Journals Portal (CPJP) — monthly

Subscribing to our 2-Journal Packages

The “Combo” package is also available to institutions and encompasses our two largest, twice-monthly journals, Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, and our eJournal Cancer Reviews Online.

The “Cancer Prevention Package” is also available to institutions and encompasses our two monthly prevention journals Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; Cancer Prevention Research; and our eJournal Cancer Prevention Journals Portal.

Print Rates

Please see Subscription Cost for our rates.

Ordering

To place a new order for a print subscription, or to renew/upgrade an existing order, please contact our fulfillment agency, Turpin Distribution, Ltd., via the following contact details:

For more information about institutional subscriptions, please see Subscriber Help and Services.

8. Site Licenses

Purchasing a Site License:

Institutional subscribers to print editions are provided access to AACR Journals online, for no extra charge, only at the site of their institutional library. A site license is required for institution-wide, networked and remote proxy server access. Site licenses are negotiated on an individual basis. To obtain a quote, please contact sitelicense{at}aacr.org.

Download AACR's Site License Agreement

(PDFs require Adobe Acrobat Reader — click icon for free download: )

Renewing a Site License:

If you have a site license, you will automatically receive renewal notices directly from the AACR. Please note that if you use an agent for print renewals and other transactions, the agent will not send you renewal notices for a site license.

How we structure our fees:

We have two basic tiers of site license fees, depending on whether your institution is a for-profit or a not-for-profit entity. Various factors are taken into account for a license fee.

These include:

1. Number of full-time employees
2. Number of likely users
3. Number of campuses/sites
4. Current usage (if any)
5. Whether your institution has a cancer center
6. Your Carnegie classification if you are an academic institution
7. Number of AACR members working at your location(s)

Reviewing your Usage:

• All site license users can access their current usage at any time through the AACR Usage Reports
• AACR is also COUNTER compliant

If there is any aspect of the site license policy that may need to be modified to fit the needs of your organization, please contact us.

9. Contacting the AACR for More Information

For any additional information on the information above, please contact the AACR Marketing Department at:

AACR Marketing Department
615 Chestnut St.  |  17th Floor  |  Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: (215) 440-9300  |  Fax: (215) 440-9410  |  E-mail:  marketing{at}aacr.org