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AIP'S SPIN Database Reaches One Million RecordsMelville, NY, March 1, 2002 - The American Institute of Physics announced today that on February 13 it posted the one millionth record to its SPIN abstracts database. SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) offers complete, searchable bibliographic records for nearly 100 journals published by leading scientific and engineering societies. In addition to those who subscribe to journals on AIP's Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS), SPIN is available to customers of Dialog, EBSCOhost, and Information Express. "SPIN has grown into a substantial resource for scholars," noted Tim Ingoldsby, AIP's Director of Business Development. "In fact, SPIN is searched more than one million times per month by users of our OJPS platform. As another indication of SPIN's popularity, independent publishers, including Japan's Institute of Pure and Applied Physics, have asked AIP to index their titles in SPIN. The database also provides added value for AIP publishing clients, who can offer SPIN as a resource to their subscribers, and use it as a distribution outlet for raising the visibility of their publications to non-subscribers." The SPIN database enables fielded, cross-journal searching of abstracts from 1975 to the present. It enables users to browse tables of contents (with links to abstracts) for each of these journals for this same time period. OJPS users may directly download PDF files from journals to which they subscribe, or they may purchase full-text articles from publications to which they do not subscribe. This SGML archive can be distributed, mounted, used, and exchanged with other data across a wide variety of media, platforms, and applications. "We're very proud to have reached this milestone," said Bill Burke, AIP's Publisher, Journals and Technical Publications. "A valuable aspect of SPIN is that most records are released concurrently with publication of the full-text articles, which lets us deliver them to researchers two to six weeks sooner than other abstracting services." 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; AIP also publishes eight of its own journals as well as conference proceedings in physics and related areas. AIP's Online Journal Publishing Service hosts more than 100 online publications, including journals from AIP, a number of AIP Member Societies, and other highly respected societies. Media contact: |
