AIP Vastly Expands the Number of Journal Articles Available Online

Melville, NY, May 15, 2000 -- The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have recently completed a two-year project to provide expanded online access to AIPs large body of scientific literature - more than doubling the number of AIP journal articles available online.

Journals converted during the project include: Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, and Review of Scientific Instruments. (The online archival journal section of the magazine Computers in Physics was also extended back to 1991.) Another AIP journal, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, already offers a complete online archive going back to its first issue in 1991.

This project adds nearly 50,000 articles to the OJPS platform, comprising more than 350,000 pages. Work is now underway to seamlessly integrate the backfiles with the current online journals. AIP expects the new material to be available to subscribers beginning January 2001. Institutional customers of AIP journals will have the option to subscribe to the expanded archive version of each journal for a small additional charge.

Tim Ingoldsby, Director of Business Development for AIP, notes that, "This joint project allows AIP to greatly expand its backfile of online research literature, just in time to be utilized in exciting publishing industry initiatives such as the CrossRef reference linking service. In addition, the optically character-recognized (OCR) text that is bundled with the PDF files delivered by NRL will enable AIP to seamlessly integrate these retrospectively converted journals into our planned OJPS enhancements, including full text searching."

"This project," says Ms. Laurie E. Stackpole, NRL Chief Librarian, "demonstrates that scholarly society publishers, like the American Institute of Physics, and scientific research libraries, like NRLs, share a deep commitment to the continuing availability of important scientific publications. By working together, they can forge relationships that not only benefit the participants, but that, even more importantly, improve world-wide access to the results of research, enhancing scientific productivity and fostering creativity."

An impressive amount of newly digitized material will now be available to researchers. The following table estimates the number of new articles and pages that this project has added to AIPs online journals.

Journal Title

Current Sub

Coverage

(art/pages)

Archival Subscription
Coverage	(art/pages)
Appl Phys Lett	1995 - 2001	6,250/54,800	1991 - 1994	7,400/22,300
Chaos	1991 - 2001	810/8,900	N/A	N/A
J Appl Phys	1997 - 2001	13,300/85,700	1991 - 1996	16,600/93,000
J Chem Phys	1997 - 2001	11,300/110,800	1991 - 1996	13,100/122,000
J Math Phys	1997 - 2001	2,350/36,800	1991 - 1996	2,700/37,200
Phys Fluids	1997 - 2001	1,800/18,500	1991 - 1996	2,200/21,100
Phys Plasmas	1997 - 2001	3,100/26,300	1991 - 1996	3,250/28,200
Rev Sci Instr	1997 - 2001	4,620/27,400	1991 - 1996	6,100/31,100 The American Institute of Physics was founded in 1931 and chartered as a membership corporation for the purpose of the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of the science of physics and its application to human welfare. AIP serves the sciences of physics and astronomy by providing services to its ten Member Societies, to individual scientists, and to students and the general public. AIP also publishes Physics Today, which has the largest circulation of any general-interest physics publication in the world. The Naval Research Laboratory is the Department of the Navy's corporate laboratory. NRL conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development. The Laboratory, with a total complement of nearly 3,100 personnel, is located in southwest Washington, DC, with other major sites at the Stennis Space Center, MS; and Monterey, CA. Media Contact: Tim Ingoldsby Phone: (516) 576-2265 Fax: (516) 576-2327 E-mail: tingoldsby@aip.org