The Tire Society Selects the Online Hosting Facilities of AIP Publishing Services

MELVILLE, NEW YORK, 30 September 2005 The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced today that starting with the first issue of 2006, The Tire Society has chosen AIP Publishing Services to handle production for the online version of its journal, Tire Science and Technology, an authoritative publication that delivers critically-reviewed articles quarterly. The Society has also chosen AIP’s Scitation platform (www.scitation.org) to host current issues of its journal, as well as back issues.

"Bringing Tire Science and Technology online provides our constituent community with a long-awaited resource, offering our members all the advantages of electronic publishing," said Hamid Aboutorabi, President of The Tire Society. "Partnering with an organization such as AIP, which constantly explores the latest online publishing technologies, means that we can continue to offer state-of-the-art benefits to our members and subscribers."

Tire Science and Technology users will enjoy many powerful features of the Scitation platform, including sophisticated browsing and searching, a complete suite of personalization tools, the ability to view individual articles online before the entire journal is printed, extensive links to primary publishers and databases, and much more.

The Tire Society is a not-for-profit Ohio corporation which is managed by an executive board of tire industry professionals who serve on a volunteer basis. The Society was established to disseminate knowledge and stimulate scientific and engineering development in the science and technology of tires through seminars and technical meetings, and through publication of the journal Tire Science and Technology, which is overseen by an editorial board consisting of distinguished scientists and engineers.

AIP Publishing Services (www.aipservices.org) is a division of the American Institute of Physics (www.aip.org), a not-for-profit corporation chartered in 1931 to provide publishing and distribution services for scientific and technical societies. Its online publishing platform currently hosts more than 900,000 articles from more than 150 scholarly publications for 21 learned society publishers, in fields including physics, chemistry, geology, engineering, acoustics, and other sciences. AIP’s suite of publishing services also covers every aspect of journal production, with complete management oversight from receipt of authors’ manuscripts through print and online distribution.