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Hi Chuck, Unfortunately these only link to the current journals. The archive for Journal of the Optical Society of America A on the Optics InfoBase site only goes back to 1984, but the Journal of the Optical Society of America, the former title before it split into Parts A and B, began in 1917 until it split at the end of 1983. So although it looks like the whole archive is there Vol. 1 (1984) onwards, these are actually only the archives for JOSAA, not JOSA. As you say the site does assume that one knows what all these abbreviations stand for. I do now! Cheers Lesley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant, Learning and Information Services, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ e-mail: [log in to unmask] phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666 web: http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/natsci/ejournal/ list owner: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----Original Message----- From: An informal open list set up by the UK Serials Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hamaker, Chuck Sent: 24 September 2003 14:47 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: How Do You Link to Applied Optics and Journal of the Optical Society of America on OpticsInfoBase? Leslie: Its the links on the left hand side of the panel-the title abbreviations- to go to the current issue, then use the URL on "archive" on the journal example: Journal of the Optical Society of America A http://josaa.osa.org/journal.cfm current issue http://josaa.osa.org/journal.cfm Archives they aren't in any kind of order I can figure out...if you don't know the abbreviations you are out of luck. Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Lesley Crawshaw [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:41 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: How Do You Link to Applied Optics and Journal of the Optical Society of America on OpticsInfoBase? Hi, This has been bothering me for a while now (one of many little problems to be sorted), so I thought I would seek advice from this list. We recently took out a subscription to OpticsInfoBase at: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/, which gives us online only access to the Optical Society of America's online journals. Up to now we have had no problem linking to their titles. That was until they completed the digitization of the Journal of the Optical Society of America (and Applied Optics). For those who don't know Journal of the Optical Society of America split into Journal of the Optical Society of America A and Journal of the Optical Society of America B in 1984. Applied Optics also split into 3 sections in 1990, although Ulrichs still record this title as one journal. Now although we can link to each of the parts for the current titles, there is no way on OpticsInfoBase that we can link to the original titles i.e. Journal of the Optical Society of America and Applied Optics, from either our OPAC or our Virtual Learning Environment. Instead the only option we are being given is to advise users that they can search for that particular journal on Optics InfoBase and then browse the results in date order. That is the best that they can do to provide a means of browsing these former titles. However it doesn't seem very helpful to just point our users to the OpticsInfoBase site for these former titles and hope that they can figure out how to just pull up a list of that journals contents. Now whilst it is helpful to be able to search all or some of the OSA's journals through OpticsInfoBase and many users will choose to do that, should we not be able to link specifically to the older titles? I have emailed OSA on several occasions, pointing out that it does seem to be normal practice to be able to link to a former title. The American Physical Society's journals have many former reincarnations of titles, but each of them has a home page, even though that title no longer exists. Why are the OSA choosing to do things differently 1. How have other people dealt with this on their OPACS? Do you just link to OpticsInfoBase? 2. Should OpticsInfoBase not have a means that one can link to the former titles? I hope this makes sense and look forward to your replies! Cheers Lesley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant, Learning and Information Services, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ e-mail: [log in to unmask] phone: 01707 284662 fax: 01707 284666 web: http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/natsci/ejournal/ list owner: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~