The Secretary-Treasurer's office of the American Society of Parasitologists handles all of the day-to-day financial and membership business of ASP, communicates regularly with our accountants (Mize Houser Inc., Lawrence, KS), keeps investment records and invests endowment funds according to Business Advisory Committee and Council recommendations, maintains the Council and membership listserves, updates portions of the ASP web site (http://asp.unl.edu), and responds to routine correspondence regarding society business. The S-T assistant is Ms. Beth Wilkins; we owe Beth a great deal of gratitude for her responsible and dedicated work on behalf of the membership! Allen Press Association Management Services, Lawrence, KS, processes all of our receipts and issues bills. Allen Press, Lawrence, KS, publishes the Journal of Parasitology, supported by your dues and subscriptions. Mize Houser, Inc., the accountants, issue checks and arrange for the annual audit. We have an internal system for ensuring that at least three individuals are involved in issuing payments.

Beginning with 2008 (volume 94), the Journal of Parasitology will be published electronically, with print options available to both ASP members and institutional subscribers. As a result of this action, ASP Council approved a number of changes in subscription charges, some of which can result in substantial savings, especially for students who are interested only in electronic access. For new journal and membership rates, please consult the Business and Directory link on the ASP home page. From the Business and Directory link, go to  ASP ON-LINE Business Office and follow the instructions for becoming a member or renewing a membership. Notice that if you are a student, then you will need to send a hard copy of your certificate of student status to the ASP Secretary-Treasurer. We thank you for your patience during this time of transition!

Membership, of course, allows you to receive the Journal of Parasitology, a publication with a strong international reputation and a very long shelf life. Your library's subscription makes this journal readily available for your students, too. The Journal of Parasitology is also available through BioOne and JSTOR, the latter with a floating 3-year wall (all back issues available online up to the most recent three volumes). We strongly encourage you to help convince your library to subscribe via these two services, also.

We routinely send out information to members via the listserv, so if you would like to be added to the list, feel free to ask Beth to put you on regardless of whether you are a member of ASP or not. Of course we truly appreciate your membership, so feel free to join at any time. If you prefer not to use the online business link to Allen Press, you can still join ASP by using the printing out the forms available on the ASP Membership page, and simply mailing them, along with a check or credit card number (except for Discover and AMEX) plus original signature, to the S/T office. We accept checks (made out to American Society of Parasitologists) and all major credit cards except Discover and AMEX (Allen Press cannot process these for some reason).

If you want to contact the Secretary-Treasurer's office, my e-mail is This email address link is protected from spam, so I recommend e-mailing me directly instead of using this hot link. Beth's e-mail is She should also be contacted directly instead of using this hot link. If you're writing about ASP business, it's probably a good idea to copy Beth on anything you send me, and vice versa. Please put "ASP" in the subject line of any e-mail.

The mailing address, phone numbers, and FAX for both Beth and me are:

School of Biological Sciences
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0118 USA
TEL: (402) 472-2754
FAX: (402) 472-2083 - individual membership business only please.

Thank you for your interest in the American Society of Parasitologists!

JJ

John Janovy, Jr.
Secretary-Treasurer
Varner Professor of Biological Sciences
http://bsweb.unl.edu/labs/janovy/