OSA - Optical Society of America

Name of Service
OSA journals

License Agreed
Country-wide for all not-for-profit libraries, research and learning institutions

Service Type
Online journals

Content
12 Optics and photonics journals published by OSA and selected OSA meeting content

Titles of Journals

OSA Title list 2009 (11kb)

Subject Strengths
The Optical Society of America brings together optics and photonics scientists, engineers, educators, technicians and business leaders.

Service Strengths

• gain access to OSA's journals through Optics InfoBase.;
• search for articles from OSA's journals and conference publications;
• read the online version of Optics & Photonics News (OPN);
• find information for journal authors;
• get the latest news about OSA’s publications.

Impact factors
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) ranked three of OSA's primary journals in the top 10 in its latest ratings.

URL to platform/collection access
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/

Registration
Each institution is required to register to use OSA.  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 INASP registration database and select your country and institution.

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

URL to general publisher site
http://www.osa.org/

Usage guides
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/help.cfm

For help and support from the publisher please contact
elec@osa.org

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