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• Can agents select a start date for a subscription to the Journal of American History?
• We did not receive one of the titles listed with our subscription. Do you extend the expire date or offer a refund?
• What if we don't know the correct subscription category for our institution?
• Please explain the rationale for the categories of School 1 and School 2.

Q. Can agents select a start date for a subscription to the Journal of American History?
A. No. Effective 1 July 2002 OAH has not authorized a subscription to begin prior to the date a payment is received in the OAH executive office.

Q. We did not receive one of the titles listed with our subscription. Do you extend the expire date or offer a refund?
A. OAH provides the OAH Magazine of History, OAH Newsletter, and Annual Meeting Program, as complimentary publications that accompany a subscription to the Journal of American History. Even though OAH will make every attempt to provide the missing issue, nonreceipt of the Magazine of History, Newsletter, or Program does not result in a refund or extension of expiration date. Nonreceipt of the Journal of American History will result in replacement being mailed from the OAH office. If the issue is no longer available the expiration date will be extended for one issue.

Q. What if we don't know the correct subscription category for our institution?
A. Check the list of categories on our website at http://www.oah.org/members/subscriberinfo.html. It is the responsibility of the institution, or its agent, to determine the FTE (full time enrollment), population (for public libraries), or whether a doctoral/research university is intensive or extensive.

Q. Please explain the rationale for the categories of School 1 and School 2.
A. School 1 - Doctoral/Research University - Extensive (those awarding 50 or more doctoral degrees per year across at least 15 disciplines)

School 2 - Doctoral/Research University - Intensive (those awarding at least 10 doctoral degrees per year across three or more disciplines, or at least 20 doctoral degrees per year over all)

These categories are from the 2000 Carnegie Foundation's Classification of 3,856 Institutions of Higher Education which was published in the August 11, 2000 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Our rationale is that larger universities reach a much larger audience, literally thousands of students, faculty, staff and people in the local community who have access to the Journal of American History. Current rates are relatively inexpensive compared to other scholarly journals.