The Academy offers a wide range of benefits and services. Your access to benefits depends on the membership category you select to match your interests.
Admission to Academy Events
NYAS members are eligible for free or reduced registration costs for most of the nearly 100 meetings the Academy organizes each year, including our Frontiers of Science and Science & the City programs. Visit our events calendar to see what's coming up.
Open Access to Unique Content
The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences is one of the world's most highly cited interdisciplinary scientific publications. Individual Members, Patron Members, Student & Postdoc Members, and Emeritus Members are entitled to select up to five volumes in this book series each year for only $40 each—a significant savings on each volume. In addition, Individual Members may select one Annals volume free each year, and Patron Members may select two free volumes. Members also receive free open access to the complete historical archive of the Annals online. The archive begins in 1823 with the first volume of the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York—the publication that preceded the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Academy eBriefings allow the Academy’s worldwide membership to experience our events online, at their convenience, through the ease of an Internet connection. Designed to provide busy scientists the latest information in an accessible format, these unique multimedia presentations contain meeting summaries by professional science writers; speakers’ slides and audio; video interviews; and links to other related information, including relevant journal articles, Web sites, books, and speakers’ home pages. NYAS members receive exclusive access to our entire eBriefings catalog.
The New York Academy of Sciences Magazine, published in print and online, features news and information about current issues in science and technology as well as articles about the Academy, its programs, and its members. All members receive a complimentary subscription to the magazine, which is mailed three times per year. The magazine is also published online.
Career Development Resources
Membership in the Academy gives you full access to career development and professional development programs and information from the Academy from the Science Alliance. The Science Alliance complements our innovative and dynamic scientific content with critical programs and services focused on career education, development, and training. Members can participate in events that teach career development skills and offer opportunities to network, and gain exclusive access to unique online content.
Additional Benefits
All members receive an Academy membership card. Individual Members and Patron Members also receive an engraved membership certificate.
In addition, NYAS members are entitled to special discounts on credit cards, insurance, car rental, and New York City hotels. Learn more about member discounts.