GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT
Who today dares to oppose relevance and who would disagree with the statement that scientists must contribute to the reduction of human suffering and the resolution of social problems? -- From "The Challenge of Policy Sciences" in the founding issue of Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn 1972

The Policy Studies Organization publishes eleven journals in cooperation with Wiley-Blackwell, Global and Berkeley Electronic Press. The journals and their editorial offices are Policy and Internet (University of Oxford), Review of Policy Research (Georgetown University), Digest of Middle East Studies (University of Wisconsin), Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy (Louisiana State University and University of Oklahoma), Policy Studies Journal (University of Colorado, Denver), Politics & Policy (Universidad IberoAmericana, Mexico City), Latin American Policy (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City), Asian Politics & Policy (Renmin University of China, Beijing), World Medical and Health Policy (George Mason University), Poverty & Public Policy (University of Missouri, Kansas City), Proceedings of the PSO (PSO Headquarters, Washington DC). The PSO also publishes three book series on Public Policy, The Middle East and China, in cooperation with Lexington books (Rowland & Littlefield), and hosts the Dupont Summit, a December conference in Washington on science, health and environment policy.

PSO is committed to social responsiblity, believing that all organizations should contribute positively to the environment. Publications are printed on recycled paper by union labor, and products are purchased from concerns whose employment practices are progressive. We support diversity, encourage feedback from all those with whom we deal, and cooperate with WileyBlackwell and other partners to donate or provide publications at much reduced cost to developing countries. More than 600 institutions in 60 developing countries receive our publications free of charge.

INCREASED PSO MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS: JOIN  OR RENEW NOW!

In 2009, individual subscribers to PSO publications receive from Wiley-Blackwell six issues of Politics & Policy, up from the previous four, and six issues of Policy Studies Journal, including a special  double issue that is a yearbook of policy research and studies around the world, and four issues of our new journal Asian Politics & Policy. They already receive six issues a year of the Review of Policy Research. They also have access to our four new journals with Berkeley Electronic Press, which each are quarterly.  

That is a total of 8 different journal titles -- three bi-monthlies and five quarterlies. Our individual members currently  get 38  issues covering those 8 different subject areas at the same price as for 8 issues covering 2 areas  in 2004!  In 2010, in cooperation with Wiley-Blackwell, we will be adding still two more journals and subject areas, the Digest of Middle East Studies and Latin American Politics & Policies. There is as one subscriber wrote, "no better academic bargain anywhere. Policy studies without the PSO publications is virtually impossible."

Members of PSO have been able to use the offices in Washington as a base for their visits, and many PSO members have participated in PSO panels and receptions at meetings of the American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Members also have had the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping build the PSO endowments with APSA, SPSA and MPSA that bring students and scholars to the annual meetings of those organizations.

Your membership now permits online access to the journals through Wiley InterScience, which provides access to over three million articles and a service that includes back issues of all PSO journals. Your membership also offers substantial discounts for the PSO books published by Lexington Books, including the fourteen titles in our Studies in Public Policy, the growing list of our volumes in Middle East Classics, and our series on Challenges Facing Chinese Political Devellopment. And more good things are coming, so the message is to join or renew now! This is made by simply going to the Wiley-Blackwell renewal page.

Books for PSO headquarters

Those of you who have visited since the Policy Studies Organization moved to Washington know that 1527 New Hampshire Avenue is a large place -- and if you have books, political memorabilia, or even antiques! their gift to the headquarters would be permanently acknowledged on the website and would be tax deductible. We have lots of empty shelves, so if you are crowded, let us help! A note to our executive director, David Merchant , will certainly elicit a prompt reply.

We want to publish you!

If you want to publish in the PSO journals or book series, take a look at the specific journals and our books so you have an idea of what the editors want and contact them directly.

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