NRAO Support for Page Charges

Users of the NRAO telescopes and facilities are encouraged to publish their scientific results in a timely manner. To this end, the NRAO provides partial page charge support to scientists at U.S. educational institutions. When requested, the NRAO will pay the larger of the following:

• One half (50%) of the page charges of papers reporting original observations made with NRAO instruments when at least one of the authors is eligible for support.
• One hundred percent (100%) of the page charges prorated by the fraction of authors who are NRAO staff members.

Further details can be found in the NRAO Newsletter of January, 1994 (No. 58), or the NRAO WWW Home Page at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/library/page_charges.html. The specific procedure to be followed to obtain page charge support is:

• At the time of submission, please send four publication copies of the paper to the NRAO Librarian, Charlottesville, Virginia, indicating the journal to which the paper has been submitted. The copies are for the four NRAO site libraries. If you wish to have the preprint placed at the 12 Meter telescope, send one additional copy and indicate that it is for the telescope. The Observatory does not review visitors' publications prior to submittal.
• At the time of acceptance for publication, please notify the Librarian in Charlottesville of the proposed date of publication and apportionment of page charges, so that the necessary purchase orders can be initiated.
• Authors who wish to have the full electronic text of their preprints included on the NRAO WWW preprint page should contact the NRAO Librarian in Charlottesville (library@nrao.edu) or read the instructions to authors on the WWW page at (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/library/intro_preprints.html).
• All other scientific and administrative communications should be kept between the authors and the journals.