AIP's new service - Search OJPS - offers free searching to non-subscribers

For immediate release

Melville, NY, December 17, 2002 The American Institute of Physics announced today that it will offer free searching of all the bibliographic records on its Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS) for which PDF files of full-text articles are available. To date, searching has been restricted to those who subscribe to at least one of the more than 100 journals on the OJPS platform. The name of the new service is Search OJPS (searchojps.aip.org), and it will be accessible on a six-month experimental basis to anyone who registers.

The service has similar functionality to SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices), AIPs abstracts database. Users may browse or search bibliographic data from 110 online journals published by AIP and other scientific and engineering societies, with various options for accessing full-text articles. Search OJPS enables fielded, cross-journal searching on more than 300,000 abstract records. Users may also browse tables of contents (with links to abstracts) for each of these journals for this same time period. Within each of these areas, options are provided for users to obtain the full-text articles. Users may directly download PDF files from journals to which they or their institutions subscribe, or they may use the pay-per-view facilities of AIPs DocumentStore (www.documentstore.org) to purchase full-text articles from publications to which they do not subscribe.

Search OJPS provides a convenient research resource for searching across multiple journals on the OJPS, including journals published by AIP, American Physical Society, Russian Academy of Sciences, ASME International, and American Society of Civil Engineers. Users are required to register, and the service is accessible through a number of links, including links on the AIP homepage (www.aip.org), OJPS homepage (ojps.aip.org), AIPs DocumentStore, SPIN (ojps.aip.org/spinweb/) abstracts database, and journals on the OJPS platform.

The American Institute of Physics is a not-for-profit corporation chartered in 1931 to provide publishing and distribution services for scientific and technical societies. Its Online Journal Publishing Service currently hosts e-journals of the American Physical Society, Acoustical Society of America, AVS The Science and Technology Society, The Society of Rheology, Biomedical Engineering Society, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, American Association of Physics Teachers, Russian Academy of Sciences, SPIE The International Society for Optical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineering, ASME International, American College of Medical Physics, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, The Electrochemical Society, JCPSInternational Society for Diffraction Data, Laser Institute of America, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, as well as AIPs own publications.