PRINCIPLES OF MEMBERSHIP

The following membership structure was approved by the 1984 Extraordinary General Assembly which adopted the initial Statutes of ICSTI. Membership applications must be made with the awareness of the purposes and principles of ICSTI as stated in the Statutes, By-Laws and Regulations.
ICSTI offers four classes of membership:

• Class A Full Members consists of organizations with principal interests in either (i) the generation or use of new scientific or technical information, or (ii) the coordination of activities of type (i) within a geographical area or within a discipline. Class A includes organizations primarily representing the interests of scientific and technical information users, such as scientific unions, learned societies, national academies.
  
• Class B Full Members consists of organizations with principal activities in the collection, storage, organization, or dissemination of scientific or technical information. Class B includes abstracting and indexing services, data centers and services, representatives of primary publishers, online vendors, networks, libraries, information centers, and also policy making bodies, sponsors and coordinators of information activities.
  
• Class C Associate Members consists of organizations with some interests in common with those of ICSTI. Class C includes organizations concerned with the transfer of scientific information who wish to keep abreast of, and contribute to the activities and development of ICSTI.
  
• Class D Honorary Members consists of persons whose outstanding contribution to the work of ICSTI merits special recognition.
  

Full Members pay dues. Associate Members and Honorary Members pay no dues.
For Full Members, there are several categories of dues associated with different voting powers:

• On the level of dues and on the budget, each Full Member has one, two, or three votes in accordance with the class and category in which they have been admitted.
  
• In all other matters, each Full Member has one vote.
  

Associate Members and Honorary Members have no vote.

SCALE OF MEMBERSHIP DUES

Following a successful outcome of the electronic vote on a new Dues structure for ICSTI the following will be the Dues payable for existing Members from January 1, 2006.

These rates will apply to new Members joining us from May 15, 2005.

In accordance with a resolution of the 2001 General Assembly, membership dues shall be paid exclusively in €.

Class	Dues Category	Annual Dues in Euros	Votes
Class A Full Members	-	800 €	1
Class B Full Members	1 2 3	1,500 € 2,500 € 7,500 €	1 2 2
Class C Associate Members	-	no dues	no vote
Class D Honorary Members	-	no dues	no vote

RATES FOR NEW MEMBERS

ICSTI's membership year is January - December. First year membership dues will be pro-rated to reflect the month in which they join. During the first year new members have no voting rights.

CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING DUES CATEGORIES

• Class B Full Members:
  
  • Organizations admitted as Class B Members pay dues according to their budget expenditure:
    

    up to 3 million (106) dollars	=	category 1
    from 3 to 6 million (106) dollars	=	category 2
    over 6 million (106) dollars	=	category 3

    
    For companies or institutions belonging to a common financial group, the first member to join ICSTI will pay according to the scheme above; the second, third, etc...company will pay the B1 dues rate.

Candidates for full membership must provide sufficient information in support of the dues category they apply for.