NBER Working Paper Subscription Information

What are NBER Working Papers?

Hard Copy Subscriptions
INCLUDE FREE ONLINE ACCESS for everyone at your organization. Subscribers also receive, by mail in hard copy, the full NBER Working Paper Series of approximately 1,000 papers published each year. Subscriptions are free to Corporate Associates. Anyone interested in becoming a Corporate Associate should contact Denis Healy.  For others within the United States, the standard rate for a full hard copy subscription is $9,350 or academic libraries and faculty members, $7,480. Partial subscriptions, delineated by program, are also available. Effective January 1, 2016, a five-tier pricing structure for partial subscriptions, based on the average number of working papers distributed by each program in recent years, replaces the more varied set of partial subscription prices that prevailed in past years. This structure reduces the subscription cost for many partial subscribers, although for some, there will be price increases. In most cases, these increases more closely harmonize the average cost per paper across different partial subscriptions. We appreciate our readers' understanding of this pricing re-alignment.

Online Access and Online-Only Subscriptions
Hard copy, as well as online-only subscriptions, allow electronic access for everyone at an organization. No licensing agreements are required. The full text of Working Papers are now available on the NBER Web site even before hard copy papers leave the mailing house. Pricing details on online-only subscriptions are listed below.

* A full subscription includes all topics listed under "partial subscriptions."
** All NBER working papers are sent by air (ISAL). All checks must be in US dollars drawn on a US bank.

• Information for Libraries
• Descriptions of major NBER Programs
• Working Papers by NBER Program

For additional information, send email to [email protected].

• New subscriptions begin the first of the month after receipt of payment. Working Papers in partial subscriptions are not numbered consecutively.
  
• Refunds for cancellations and change of service will be given only within the first 90 days of the subscription.

Working paper claims:

• Missing working papers must be claimed within 90 days from the date of publication.
• Please note that it often takes a full month for papers to travel overseas. Please note that papers are not necessarily printed and shipped in numerical order.
• We make a note of claims received, but will not ship out any missing issues until over a month has passed since the printing date.
• Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery of claimed issues.
• Any issues missing and claimed outside the 90-day claim period may be accessed by our website, www.nber.org.