Apologies for cross-posting.
I am pleased to announce that Institute of Physics Publishing (IoPP) is in the process of digitizing its entire journal archive. IoPP journals date back to 1874 with publication of the Proceedings of the Physical Society of London (1874-1967) and this massive project involves the digitization of more than 500 volume-years of journals.
The pre-1991 full-text archive will be made freely available during 2002 via our Electronic Journals platform and the archive will be completed in three phases:
Phase I: Journal of Physics series, 1968-1990. Titles included in Phase I are:
· Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (formerly Journal of Physics A: General Physics; Journal of Physics A: Mathematical, Nuclear and General)
· Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (formerly Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics)
· Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (formed by a merger of Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics and Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics)
· Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (formerly British Journal of Applied Physics)
· Measurement Science and Technology (formerly Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments; Journal of Scientific Instruments)
· Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics (formerly Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics; Journal of Physics A: Mathematical, Nuclear and General)
The first stage of Phase I is available now. Please go to our Archive Help page at http://www.iop.org/EJ/archive for further updates.
We have already made available volumes from the years 1980-1990 for Journal of Physics A, Journal of Physics B and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter/Journal of Physics C. More volumes will be added on a regular basis over the coming months until all volumes of the Journal of Physics series are available online.
Phase II: 1968-1990. All other IoPP journal titles published during this time. This includes a further 19 titles including Nanotechnology, Inverse Problems, Nonlinearity and Classical and Quantum Gravity. For a list of all IoPP journals currently available online, please go to http://www.iop.org/EJ/main/-list=subject/.
Phase III: 1874-1967. The final phase will bring the project to completion by digitizing all IoPP journal volumes for the period 1874-1967. This will include:
Proceedings of the Physical Society of London (1874-1967)
British Journal of Applied Physics (1950-1967) which became Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Reports on Progress in Physics (1938-1967)
Journal of Scientific Instruments (1924-1967) now Measurement Science and Technology
Physics Education (1966-1967)
Free access in 2002
In 2002, the IoPP journal archive, which is defined as content older than 10 years, is being made available to all, free of charge. For non-subscribed journals, readers will need to login to access the full-text (or create an account, if they do not already have a username and password for our Electronic Journals service). The full-text will be automatically available to subscribers.
Subscribe in 2003
From 1 January 2003 onwards, the archive will be available in its entirety for a small annual fee. Please note that all prices exclude value-added taxes or other local sales taxes. The charges in 2003 will be as follows:
Current subscribers: $550/£375
Non-subscribers: $1100/£750
Publication of the archive will not affect your subscriptions in any way. In addition to articles from the current year, institutional subscribers will still be entitled to access a rolling 10-year electronic archive for a particular journal, as at present.
Free for Package Z subscribers
The fee to access the archive will be waived for subscribers to IoPP's all-journal subscription Package Z. The only IoPP journals not included in Package Z are Quantitative Finance and Journal of Turbulence, both of which Package Z subscribers can purchase at a 20% discount.
Local loading
For those institutions/consortia groups wishing to acquire the archive to load locally, a version will also be available for a one-time fee. Please contact your regional IoPP representative for details.
Reference linking
A useful development resulting from the digitization of the archive is that you can now find papers cited by, or papers citing, your selected article back to 1874, where applicable. Hypercite® linking technology enables you to link to/from our article references to a number of resources including: the INSPEC® Database of scientific and technical abstracts from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (back to 1969); Compendex® and Page One* from Elsevier Engineering Information Inc.; all titles published by IoPP and most other major STM publishers, and papers held on the Los Alamos preprint server. More than one million references will be captured for the archive.
Full-text searching
All articles will be full-text searchable, enabling you to find the information relevant to your area of research quickly and easily.
As a learned society not-for-profit publisher, IoPP is committed to promoting physics and to serving physicists world-wide. This latest initiative supports our prime objective and Royal Charter to disseminate information in this field.
If you have any questions about the archive, please contact our Customer Service Helpdesk at [log in to unmask] or contact your regional representative. For a full list of regional representatives on the Web, please go to http://www.iop.org/EJ/enquiries.
Best wishes
Sharon Navas
Marketing and Promotions Manager
Institute of Physics Publishing
http://www.iop.org
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