Dear Colleagues,   I'm writing you today with important news about our journals.   The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®), publisher of 11 highly regarded scholarly journals and an online open-access journal today announced that it has updated its online subscription policy and is providing institutional online subscribers with additional volumes for the balance of 2007 and 2008.   Under the new policy, INFORMS will offer current subscribers access to relevant journal volumes published back to and including 2001. Previously, 2007 institutional subscribers had access to INFORMS journals published from 2002 forward. The association is modifying its rolling wall subscription policy in response to the concerns of librarians.   Some librarians have contacted us about the online subscription policy of STM academic publishers like INFORMS. We want you to know that we appreciate the financial pressure on our library customers and that our basic goal has always been to keep INFORMS subscription prices reasonable while covering our operational costs, including the growing costs of electronic publishing. We have now modified our policy to address your concerns, while we complete our processing of older volumes to make them available for online access.  New INFORMS Archival Product INFORMS is developing an archival product and policy that will meet the needs of our institutional subscribers and fit the association's business model. The archive will cover electronic versions of many volumes not previously available to libraries. INFORMS first began publishing in 1952, so the archives will include all journal issues published since the society's inception. We expect to make an announcement about the new product later this year.   INFORMS publishes 11 print/online scholarly journals: the flagships Operations Research and Management Science, as well as Decision Analysis, Information Systems Research , INFORMS Journal on Computing, Interfaces, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Marketing Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Organization Science, and Transportation Science. INFORMS also publishes the online open-access journal INFORMS Transactions on Education.   Feel free to contact me or INFORMS Marketing and PR Director Barry List (barry.list@informs.org) with any questions about our new policy or anticipated new product.   Yours truly, Patricia Shaffer Director of Publications, INFORMS Patricia.Shaffer@informs.org   P.S. INFORMS will be exhibiting at the ACRL National Conference and Exhibition in Baltimore, Maryland from March 29-31. If you'll be attending, please visit us in Booth 1155. A press release about this announcement can be accessed at http://www.informs.org/article.php?id=1272.