[BOAI] APS Online Journals Available Free in U.S. Public Libraries

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the American Physical Society.  --Peter Suber.]


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

APS ONLINE JOURNALS AVAILABLE FREE IN U.S. PUBLIC LIBRARIES

Ridge, NY, 28 July 2010: The American Physical Society (APS)
announces a new public access initiative that will give readers
and researchers in public libraries in the United States full use
of all online APS journals, from the most recent articles back to
the first issue in 1893, a collection including over 400,000
scientific research papers.  APS will provide this access at no
cost to participating public libraries, as a contribution to
public engagement with the ongoing development of scientific
understanding.

APS Publisher Joseph Serene observed that "public libraries have
long played a central role in our country's intellectual life,
and we hope that through this initiative they will become an
important avenue for the general public to reach our research
journals, which until now have been available only through the
subscriptions at research institutions that currently cover the
significant costs of peer review and online publication."

Librarians can obtain access by accepting a simple online site
license and providing valid IP addresses of public-use computers
in their libraries
(http://librarians.aps.org/account/public_access_new). The
license requires that public library users must be in the library
when they read the APS journals or download articles. Initially
the program will be offered to U.S. public libraries, but it may
include additional countries in the future.

"The Public Library program is entirely consistent with the APS
objective to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics," said
Gene Sprouse, APS Editor in Chief. "Our goal is to provide access
to everyone who wants and needs our journals and this shift in
policy represents the first of several steps the APS is taking
towards that goal."

--Contact: Amy Halsted,
Special Assistant to the Editor in Chief,
halsted at aps.org,
631-591-4232

--About the APS:  The American Physical Society is the world's
largest professional body of physicists, representing close to
48,000 physicists in academia and industry worldwide.  It has
offices in Ridge, NY; Washington, DC; and College Park, MD.  For
more information: www.aps.org.
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