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A letter to prospective
members...
Letter From the
Editor - continued
Currently, the Online Journal of Rural Nursing
and Health Care is open to all readers and we do not require
that authors be members to publish in the Journal. The board
of RNO made this decision as a way to provide support for rural
nurses and health care practitioners because resources are always
less available in rural areas as compared to urban. However,
we are revisiting that decision. This is one of the few organization-based
journals that are open to non-members. Other journals are supported
by member dues, where members freely access to the journal,
and non-members must pay for access or they are subscription
based. Additionally, many of the medical related journals have
an advertising department where they solicit paid advertisements
to assist with support of the journal.
The Rural Nurse Organization governing board and
the Editorial Board of the Journal are wrestling with the need
for revenue and our mission to support rural practitioners.
It appears that we are either going to have to limiting the
opportunity to publish in the journal to members only or limit
the reading of the journal articles to members only. We do not
want to limit readership and will probably start with limiting
the opportunity to publish to those who hold membership. We
may possibly have to limit access to the journal to members
only at some time in the future.
It is in that spirit that I ask our readers to
consider supporting the Online Journal by joining the Rural
Nurse Organization. The membership application can be accessed
and printed below.
Mail it and your check for $55.00 to RNO at P.O.
Box 870358, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0358, USA.
My email address is jdunkin@bama.ua.edu.
You may also email the administrative offices at rno@bama.ua.edu.
Please let us hear from you.
Click
here for the RNO membership application 
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