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2000 ACA Meeting - ACA'00
The ACA's annual meeting will be held July 22-27, 2000 in
St. Paul, Minnesota. Local Chairs: Bill Gleason (UMN) and Victor
Young (UMN). Program Chair: Doug Ohlendorf (UMN).
AIP Announces Free Web Access
to Its Journal Abstracts
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) will provide free access
to its journal abstracts via the Internet. "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 of 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 Services®," 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 over 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 ans 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.
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AIP Expands
Linking Capabilities With New ISI Agreement
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the Institute for
Scientific Information® (ISI) announced their agreement to
establish electronic links between AIP's online journals and
the bibliographic and abstract information available in ISI's
Web of Science®.
Web of Science is a Web interface that provides researchers with
navigational tools to find current and retrospective information
in ISI's Citation Databases. Theses databases cover over 8,000
scientific, technical, and medical journals, with more than 600
in the physical sciences. Implementation of this agreement immediately
adds more than 300,000 reference links to AIP journals.
"AIP is extremely pleased to be among the first publishers
to line from the Web of Science to our abstracts and full text,"
said Marc Brodsky, AIP's Executive Director and CEO. Brodsky
went on to say, "ISI is the only information provider that
captures and indexes every citable reference published with every
article included in their database. Therefore, their indexes
are the only ones comprehensive enough to allow researchers to
use the powerful search technique know as cited reference searching."
"By bringing scientists a wide range of related research
right to their computer, AIP's linking agreement with Web of
Science combines the practical aspects of hypertext linking with
the navigational power of citation searching," said Time
Ingoldsby, AIP's Director of Business Development. Ingoldsby
added, "Subscribers to our online journals will enjoy unparalleled
searching capabilities and discover relationships that only citations
can offer. This brings to fruition the caapabilities first envisioned
by physicists when they invented the World Wide Web."
"For decades, AIP has been a leader in the field of scholarly
publishing, both in the authoritative content of their journals
and in the innovations they've brought to the field of publishing."
Said Richard Newman, Senior Vice President, ISI. "We're
very happy to be working with them on this project which will
bring their high-quality research to the attention of thousands
of people worldwide. The addition of links from AIP articles
and their references to the Web of Science completes the process
begun with links from Web of Science to AIP full-text articles
last September. Usage of ISI Links has increased every month
since its inception."
AIP has long pioneered the rapid delivery of information online,
mounting one of the first online physics journals, Applied
Physics Letters, almost five years ago. This new partnership
with ISI marks another milestone in AIP's evolution as one of
the premier providers of physical science information online.
The Institute for Scientific Information is headquartered in
Philadelphia, PA, and has offices worldwide. ISI produces information
databases for researchers, information specialists, and administrators
in diverse fields: chemistry, technology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare,
engineering, and business. More information about ISI and it
products I available at www.isinet.com or by contacting: Jacqueline
H. Trolley, Director Phone: (215)-386-0100, ext. 1449. E-mail:
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