Member Subscriptions and Terms

Subscriptions to AGU journals are entered for the entire volume. Subscribers to print journals who place their orders after the beginning of the volume year will receive all back issues separately, with the exception of Eos. Single issues of journals are available 4 weeks after the journal has been published. Member online subscriptions are valid 1 January through 31 March of the following year.

To maintain low member subscription rates, members agree that their subscriptions are:

for their personal use only and that
their print subscriptions will not be released to libraries or reading rooms for at least 2 years after publication.

For online journals, use of a subscriber’s password by anyone other than the subscriber is not permitted. Activity that appears to violate these usage guidelines may result in suspension of service. This implicit understanding is fundamental to the price stability of AGU journals.

Personal copy prices ($10 above the AGU member rate) are available for:

JGR (Planets),
Global Biogeochemical Cycles,
Radio Science,
Tectonics, and
Water Resources Research.

These prices are for individual members of related societies who are not members of AGU. Call for more information.

Payment

Payment in full must be received before subscriptions can begin. Delivery outside the U.S. must include shipping costs.

Please do not send cash.

Credit Cards:

Credit card payments can be made by using VISA, MasterCard or American Express. You must pay by credit card when using the AGU online renewal site. The charge on your credit card bill will be made by the American Institute of Physics, which is handling renewals for AGU.

Fax: +1-516-349-9704 (send a copy of your complete renewal form)
Telephone: (800) 344-6902 (in North America), +1-516-576-2270 (world-wide)

Checks:

Make checks payable in U.S. dollars, Canadian dollars, or British pounds. Please write your AGU account number and phone number on the check.

Send checks to AGU at the following address:

Post Office Box 503284
St. Louis, MO 63150-3284 USA

Postal money orders:

Make postal money orders payable in U.S. dollars. Attach the money order to your renewal notice and send them to AGU at the address above. Please write your AGU account number and phone number or e-mail address on the money order.

Electronic funds transfer

You must follow this procedure to ensure that your EFT payment is credited properly:

The funds transfer must be in U.S. dollars.
Ask the bank to specify your member account number and “2007 renewal” in the comments section.
Be certain to include the wire cost as AGU does not cover these fees.
Authorize your bank to make the transfer to:

Bank of America
730 15th Street NW, 2nd Floor
Washington DC 20005-1012 USA

ABA routing number: #0260-0959-3,
Account number: 003927219434
International Swift Code: BOFAUS6S

How to order

By far the easiest and fastest way to subscribe or add subscriptions to an existing order is to log into our secure orders page.

Non-U.S. Journal Delivery Service

Subscribers to AGU journals (printed editions) who live outside the U.S. must include payment for one of the following delivery options:

Surface mail:: Journals are shipped via land and/or sea to destination.
Airmail:: Journals are shipped via airmail to the country of destination where they are entered into the local postal system.

Changes of Address

To change your current information, login into the online membership directory, and use the View/Update entry button to edit your personal membership information.

Another possibility is to update your member record at the online member renewal site. Allow 5 weeks advance notice for the address change to be reflected in your mailings.

Cancellation/Refund Policy

Cancellation requests will not be accepted for the current year once a subscription has been entered. When making renewal payments be sure to include payment for every title. Any journal for which renewal payment is not received will be assumed to be cancelled.

The subscriber is entitled to a refund only under the following circumstances:

In case of a duplicate payment made for the current year due to an AGU error, a full refund will be provided.
In case of a duplicate payment made for the current year attributable to subscriber error, a prorated refund will be made, based on the date the request is received at AGU headquarters.

Claims

Claims for missing issues will not be honored because of insufficient notice of address change, loss in mail unless claimed within 90 days for the United States and 150 days for other countries from the last day of the month of publication, or such reasons as “missing from files.” (Mail dates for AGU printed journals are available at http://www.agu.org/pubs/stats/maildatechart.web.pdf.)

To submit claims, please contact the American Institute of Physics at claims@aip.org, or by mail to:

American Institute of Physics
Circulation & Fulfillment Department
2 Huntington Quadrangle, Suite 1N01
Melville NY 11747