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AIP announces free web access to its journal abstractsMelville, NY, June 4, 1999 -- The American Institute of Physics (AIP) said today that it will provide free access to its journal abstracts via the Internet. In fact, anyone with Internet access can browse all AIP journals and read the complete abstract of any online article free of charge. This new feature can be explored by visiting the AIP online journals (http://journals.aip.org/). The Institute’s announcement coincides with the 90th Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association, and the new policy is expected to greatly benefit library patrons, including students, faculty, and researchers. "From today forward, anyone with Internet access can browse all AIP journals and read the complete abstract of any online article free of charge," said Marc Brodsky, AIP’s Executive Director and CEO. "We’re making this change to better serve the scientific community, and to enable free Web access to our published research from new channels." Until now, AIP abstracts of online articles were only available to AIP journal subscribers or subscribers to AIP’s bibliographic database, Searchable Physics Information Notices (SPIN). The move is part of AIP’s established mandate to advance and disseminate physics research worldwide. It is also seen as the foundation of a program that will provide links to AIP journal abstracts from a host of other publishers and databases. "AIP has already established links from references in our articles to online articles in all journals on AIP’s Online Journal Publishing Service," said Darlene Walters, Vice President of Publishing. "Within the next six months we expect to extend this process to link to the abstracts and full text of articles published by a number of other physics publishers. Our goal is to have links to the source articles for more than 90% of the references in every AIP article by the end of this year." Access to free abstracts also benefits users of AIP’s online document delivery service, providing more information with which to make a purchasing decision. There are more than 75,000 articles available through the AIP Online Journal Publishing Service, for immediate online delivery at prices well below those of other document delivery services. Articles are available for purchase via credit card on a secure online order form. "Free access to abstracts adds a new dimension to AIP’s growing online capabilities," said Tim Ingoldsby, AIP’s Director of Business Development. The searchable SPIN database, reference links to the INSPEC and ISI databases, full-text HTML, personal article collection, and other features ensure that our online journals and services remain state-of-the-art." AIP’s online journals are hosted on AIP’s Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS), which currently features 65 journals, with a total of 118,000 articles, from AIP and 11 other scientific and engineering societies. The American Institute of Physics is a not-for-profit corporation chartered in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare. Media Contact: Tim Ingoldsby |
