Abstract
On numerous past occasions over many years I have written to the officers of the Union, the editors of some of the journals, the Publications Committee, and Union employees that AGU journals should be more than vanity presses for the authors, no matter how good the published papers are. In particular, the continued lack of provision of easily accessible comprehensive indexes (on CD‐ROMS, diskettes, electronically, whatever) for the journals means that the overburdened readers'users of the journals (many of whom are personal subscribers) are really the losers. The users are being told that they don't count. Maybe this is one reason why personal subscriptions are decreasing? It does appear that the Union is only interested in selling a printed page, not in whether it is ever read or looked up in an index.
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