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Physics News Update
Number 215 (Story #4), February 24, 1995 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (PRL) , the premier weekly physics journal, will go online in July 1995. Besides getting the full text of all articles, the user will have access (through an electronic hyperlink) to abstract information on referenced articles dating back to 1983 and stored on the SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) data base. The online text for any one issue would become available on the publication cover date. Maria Lebron, Associate Publisher at The American Physical Society, expects some subscribers might want to receive only the online version, but that the print version of the journal would continue into the foreseeable future. (For more information about PRL, journalists can contact Lebron at assocpub@aps.org; APS members should contact the Membership department at membership@aps.org.) Other physics journals which have gone (or will be going) online are Applied Physics Letters (in January 1995), published by the American Institute of Physics; Classical and Quantum Gravity, published by the Institute of Physics (UK); and Astrophysical Journal Letters (scheduled for Sept. 1995), published by the American Astronomical Society. (Physics World, February 1995.)