APS Journals Come Home

["Barbara Hicks" <hicks@aps.org>]

Announcement:

Ridge, New York, January 4, 2010: As part of a new APS 
initiative, all APS journal content from 1893 to present is now 
hosted on a single platform run by the APS Editorial Office.  In 
early December 2009, APS launched our Physical Review Online 
Archive (PROLA) on this entirely new software platform.  This new 
platform now hosts all of the content for Physical Review 
Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review A through E, 
and Physical Review Special Topics providing a uniform user 
experience across the journals.

Despite all of the behind-the-scene changes, APS's clean and 
easy-to-navigate user interface has been maintained and improved 
while our highly-regarded search engine has been overhauled to 
provide new features and even faster response times.  In 
addition, we have added new APS Journal accounts that will allow 
us to better integrate all APS services provided to readers, 
authors, referees, and members during the coming year while 
allowing users to have a more personalized view.  This new 
foundation will allow APS to move quickly to introduce many new 
features across all of our web sites.

APS journal subscriptions have also been re-aligned.  Each 
journal subscription now covers the entire journal's content all 
the way back to its first volume.  For example, a PROLA 
subscription is no longer needed to access the early volumes of 
PRL if you have a PRL subscription.  However, a PROLA 
subscription is still needed to access Physical Review content 
from 1893-1969 and the archival content of journals for which you 
do not have a subscription.  For APS-ALL and PR-ALL package 
subscribers, the main effect will be to attribute downloads of 
older content to the journal subscriptions rather than the PROLA 
subscription.

A new portal for librarians is also in the works.  As a first 
step, http://librarians.aps.org/ has been updated with the same 
look and feel as the rest of our journal web sites.  Please see 
http://librarians.aps.org/2010-transition for a brief FAQ 
covering the basic changes that affect institutional subscribers. 
More changes will be made in the next few weeks.

For more information, please contact the APS Associate Publisher 
at assocpub@aps.org.

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