AIP Offers Free Searching of Journals and Proceedings

MELVILLE, NEW YORK, 12 July 2005 — The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced today that it now offers free searching of all bibliographic records for its eleven journals and the nearly 300 conference proceedings that are hosted on its Scitation online platform. To date, searching has been restricted to those who subscribe to at least one of these AIP publications (http://journals.aip.org).

AIP journals and conference proceedings enable fielded, cross-journal searching of approximately 400,000 articles. Users can also browse tables of contents, with links to abstracts and full text. In addition, they can directly download full-text article files from journals and proceedings to which they or their institutions subscribe, or they may use the pay-per-view facilities of AIP’s DocumentStore (www.documentstore.org) to purchase PDF full-text articles from publications to which they do not subscribe.

“Our reasons for opening our journals to searching to anyone on the Internet is twofold,” said Martin Burke, AIP Publisher, Journals & Technical Publications. “First, we hope this move helps us to better serve the scientific community by making it easier for researchers to locate articles in AIP publications, whether or not they are subscribers. We also welcome the opportunity to provide greater visibility for our authors.”

The following publications, either published or co-published by AIP, now offer free searching as well as online availability to abstracts and full text back to Volume 1, Number 1. Three exceptions to complete full-text availability are noted, and these publications provide searchable abstracts back to 1975:

AIP Conference Proceedings (from 2000)
Applied Physics Letters
Chaos
Geochemical Transactions
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Review of Scientific Instruments
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data (from 1999)
Journal of Applied Physics
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Physics of Fluids
Physics of Plasmas
Low Temperature Physics (from 1997)

American Institute of Physics (www.aip.org) is a not-for-profit corporation chartered in 1931 to provide publishing and distribution services for scientific and technical societies. AIP is the publisher or co-publisher of 11 journals – many of which have the highest impact factors in their fields – two magazines and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. AIP’s online publishing platform, Scitation, currently hosts more than 500,000 articles from more than 140 scholarly publications for 20 learned society publishers, in fields including physics, chemistry, geology, engineering, acoustics, and related sciences.