Plant Cell and Plant Physiology - Subscription

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Agricultural Library (NAL), intends to negotiate and award on a Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition (JOFOC) basis. A purchase order will be one year firm-fixed price (plus four option years) awarded to American Society of Plant Biologists of Rockville, MD for electronic access (via the internet and through local loading), Data Subscription with perpetual data rights to the subscribed content. Anticipated Date of Award: 6/29/2017.

The American Society of Plant Biologists is a professional society devoted to the advancement of the plant sciences. It publishes two world-class journals and organizes conferences, and other activities that are key to the advancement of the science. NAL requires immediate and complete electronic access via the internet to ASPB journals, Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell, for use by all USDA employees, authorized public on-site users' cooperators and volunteers working on behalf of USDA and acting within the scope of their relationship with USDA. Access must include current journal issues as well as earlier journal issues, including perpetual data rights to all subscribed material. The journals must be available on a single platform, for greater efficiency in searching and locating needed information.