<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from SPIE. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;background:white"><b><span>For immediate release</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://spie.org/x42456.xml" target="_blank">http://spie.org/x42456.xml</a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">SPIE
celebrates<i> </i>Open Access Week with expanded suite of access options</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span>BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- 19
October 2010 -- </span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">SPIE joins in the celebration of Open Access
Week 2010 (18-24 October) with an expanded suite of open-access options to its
scholarly publications on light-based science and technology. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><a href="http://spie.org" title="SPIE" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">SPIE</span></a>,
the international society for optics and photonics, continues to develop new
models enabling online access without costs or controls required of the reader,
in support of its mission to provide the widest possible dissemination of
information. Open-access models vary across the publishing world, with some
enabled by author-pay programs or grants that cover the costs of publication
and ongoing dissemination.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">"We
look forward to continued exploration of open-access options, informed by
discussion with the scientific and engineering communities we serve," said
Director of Publication Eric Pepper.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">SPIE
programs providing open-access to full papers include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><i><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><a href="http://spie.org/x904.xml" title="SPIE Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">SPIE Letters</span></a></span></i><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">, a
virtual journal of short, rapidly published peer-reviewed articles judged to be
of significant originality and interest, and originally published in one of six
SPIE journals; available immediately as open-access at the home journal with no
charge to authors. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><i><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><a href="http://spie.org/x30977.xml" title="SPIE Reviews" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">SPIE Reviews</span></a></span></i><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">, a
peer-reviewed journal launched in January 2010, with full-length review
articles on important emerging technologies in optics and photonics, including
original articles as well as review articles from other SPIE journals. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">Author-choice immediate open access, available
by author payment in each of six SPIE journals. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><i><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><a href="http://spie.org/x866.xml" title="Journal of Biomedical Optics" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">Journal
of Biomedical Optics</span></a> </span></i><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">(JBO) authors may pay for open-access to begin
one year after publication. (JBO Letters are open-access immediately with or
without the payment.) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">Deposit of articles funded by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) in PubMed Central, automatically provided by SPIE at
no cost at one year after publication in the SPIE Digital Library. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">Conference proceedings of the biennial <a href="http://spie.org/etop/" title="ETOP" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">ETOP</span></a> (Education and Training in Optics and Photonics)
Conference, convening educators from around the world on the practice of
teaching optics at all levels.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">All
abstracts for the more than 300,000 journal articles and conference proceedings
papers in the <a href="http://spie.org/x2836.xml" title="SPIE Digital Library" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">SPIE Digital Library</span></a>
are freely available.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">SPIE
provides free access to other publications: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">The <i><a href="http://spie.org/x40729.xml" title="Journal of Photonics for Energy" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">Journal of Photonics for Energy</span></a></i>, launching in January
2011. During its first year, all articles will be made available with no charge
to authors or to readers. JPE covers fundamental and applied research in
applications of photonics for renewable energy harvesting, conversion, storage,
distribution, monitoring, consumption, and efficient usage. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">The <a href="http://spie.org/x1004.xml" title="SPIE Newsroom" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">SPIE Newsroom</span></a>,
publishing optics and photonics technical articles written by experts and
organized by topical interest area. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><i><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><a href="http://spie.org/x17229.xml" title="Fundamentals of Photonics" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">Fundamentals
of Photonics</span></a></span></i><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">, 10 tutorial modules written by experts, part
of a project funded by the Center for Occupational Research and Development
(CORD) and the Scientific and Technological Education in Optics and Photonics
(STEP), and supported by SPIE and other organizations. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><a href="http://spie.org/x32276.xml" title="Optipedia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">Optipedia</span></a>,
a collection of encyclopedic articles on key topics in optics and photonics.
Text, equations, and graphs were originally published in SPIE Press books.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">SPIE
also provides low- or no-cost subscriptions to institutions and individuals in
eligible countries participating in two programs: the <a href="http://library.ictp.it/ejds/" title="eJDS" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">eJDS</span></a> program of the Abdus Salam International
Centre for Theoretical Physics, serving individual researchers; and <a href="http://www.inasp.info/file/5f65fc9017860338882881402dc594e4/perii.html" title="PERii" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">PERii</span></a> (the
Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information), organized
by the International Network for the Availability of Scientific
Publications (INASP). SPIE subscriptions are provided to researchers at nearly
70 institutions through the INASP.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">See
the full list of <a href="http://spie.org/x34034.xml" title="SPIE open-access" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">SPIE open-access</span></a>
offerings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:0pt">Read
more about <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/" title="Open Access Week" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">Open Access Week</span></a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://spie.org/" title="SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">SPIE</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">, the international society for optics and
photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving
more than 180,000 constituents from 168 countries, the Society advances
emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange,
continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and
professional growth. SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25
major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North America,
Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, and supports scholarships, grants, and
other education programs around the world.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Media
Contact:</span></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px; ">Amy
Nelson</span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt">
Public Relations Manager<br>
<a href="mailto:amy@spie.org?subject=" title="Amy Nelson" target="_blank"><span style="color:#003399">Amy@SPIE.org</span></a><br>
Tel: +1 360 685 5478</span></p>
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