PSO members may obtain a letter of introduction from the PSO President in order to facilitate use of archives and libraries. Letters for independent scholars seeking use of archives and libraries are also available. Please email the Presidentwith your research plans and your access needs, along with a short cv or the address of your website.
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Increased PSO Membership Benefits: Join or Renew Now!
In 2010, individual subscribers to PSO publications receive from Wiley-Blackwell six issues of Politics & Policy, 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 Asian Politics & Policy. They already receive six issues a year of the Review of Policy Research. Additionally, they receive two issues of Latin American Policyand the Digest of Middle East Studies, our newest journals. They also have access to our four new journals with Berkeley Electronic Press: Policy and Internet, Poverty and Public Policy, Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy and World Medical and Health Policy, which are quarterly.
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 on Public Policy, the growing list of our volumes in Middle East Classics, and our series on Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development.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.
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.
*Includes a subscription to Policy Studies Journal, Policy & Politicsand Review of Policy Research, with access to all available back files for as long as the membership is maintained. Membership is by the year, and latecomers get the already published journals for the year.
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***European members outside the Euro zone, please pay the Rest of World rate.
aLife membership is $1500 which may be paid in two instalments of $750.
If you have any further questions, please contact PSO at info@ipsonet.org