American Physical Society APS

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Year Joined PERii
2006

Resource Name
American Physical Society

Resource Type
Online Journals Service

Access URL
http://prola.aps.org/search

Title Listing
Document 2010 title list (11kb)

Content Overview
Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and journals produced by the American Physical Society.

Subject Strengths

  • Physics
  • Atomic, molecular and optical physics
  • Condensed matter and materials physics
  • Nuclear physics
  • Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
  • Statistical, non-linear, and soft matter physics
  • Accelerators and beams
  • Physics education research

Service Strengths

  • Full text searching of all APS material through the search engine.
  • The American Physical Society is one of nine publishers participating in a CrossRef pilot project that uses Google to provide full-text searching of scholarly research.
  • Free E-mail Tables of Contents alerting service
  • RSS Feeds
  • Weekly journal Physics features expert commentaries written by active researchers who explain the results to physicists in other subfields. These commissioned articles are edited for clarity and readability across fields and are accompanied by explanatory illustrations.

Registration Information
Each developing country institution eligible for access (Document Eligibility Criteria 38kb) is required to register to use American Physical Society. If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the PERii registration system and select your country and institution.

Access Information
Access by IP address recognition with username and password access for remote users.

Publisher Support/Help Contact
onlinehelp@aip.org

URL to General Publisher Site
http://publish.aps.org/

Further Information from your Country Coordinator
The details for your country coordinator can be found on your country page. Please use the 'Country Finder on the right-hand side of this page.

Information for Librarians

Platform
Scitation Usage Report Service.

Publisher Newsletter Details
News and press releases can be viewed on the publisher's website. Back issues of APS News and Physics News are also available. 

Usage Data Collection
Usage data can be accessed by librarians via the Scitation Usage Report Service. Usage statistics are not available for registrants with Username/Password access

PERii FAQs
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PERii Help Documents
Please see the online help documents for further information about INASP policy on username and password access, registration, registration record keeping, downloading from publishers websites, access issues and statistics.

Publisher FAQs
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