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Daphne Greenwood, Senior Director of Sales & Marketing, Publishing

phone: +1.202.416. 1405 |  e-mail: [log in to unmask]

The Optical Society (OSA)

www.osa.org

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1 December 2016

Dear Colleague,

As a valued OSA Publishing customer, we wanted to touch base with you regarding some updates to our 2017 Order Form and License Agreement.

In communications that we have sent out over the last 18 months, we have shared that OSA's access options to our Extended Backfile content will change for some subscribers starting 1 January 2017.

An overview of the new Extended Backfile access options can be found here: http://www.osapublishing.org/library/2017backfilepolicy.cfm#bfp.

To ensure that our license agreement is consistent with the new Extended Backfile policy and to have a single license agreement that applies to both single and multi-site subscribers, we have also made a few changes to our 2017 Order Form and License Agreement. The new order form and license agreement can be found on OSA's Library Resource: http://www.osapublishing.org/library.

If you plan to renew your OSA subscription(s) for 2017, and we hope that you do, or if you have already done so, we will need you to sign the 2017 Order Form and License Agreement. We are, of course, here to assist you with any questions you might have about this updated document. Please feel free to contact your local sales representative if you would like to discuss the newly added Extended Backfile text. Contact details for our sales representatives by territory can be found here: http://www.osapublishing.org/library.

Once you are ready to return your signed agreement, please scan and email it to [log in to unmask]. If you would prefer, you can also mail it to:

Publishing Sales Department

c/o Susannah Lehman

2010 Massachusetts Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20036

Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to continuing to provide you and your patrons with the highest quality optics and photonics content in 2017.

Kind regards,

Elizabeth Nolan

Deputy Executive Director and Chief Publishing Officer