APS Research Journals online

The American Physical Society is pleased to bring you these research journals online: Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review C, Physical Review D, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, and Reviews of Modern Physics.

All users may freely browse the tables of contents for the current and previous issues, the published abstracts, and an advance listing of accepted papers scheduled for upcoming issues. Searching on the online journals, as well as access to references and full-article PDF files and PostScript (PS) files, is controlled by username and password for member subscribers and by IP address for institutional subscribers.

The APS is committed to providing high-quality service and products to its members and the scientific community, and your input is valued. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to drop us a note at assocpub@aps.org.

Current features of APS Research Journals online include:

• common entry point for all APS online journals
• easy and logically designed navigation pathways
• access to each journal issue before the print version becomes available
• article-at-a-time publishing for PRA, PRC, PRD, and PRST-AB
• browsable tables of contents for current and previous issues
• advance listing of accepted papers scheduled for upcoming issues
• a PDF and a PostScript file of the full article, enabling users to print articles with the same look and feel as the print version of the journal
• full-text or bibliographic-database search capability and versatile search interface including fielded and Boolean search and advanced search
• "article collection" for selection of articles of interest (except PRST-AB)

Physical Review A, B, C, D, E and Letters online also currently have these features:

• bidirectional links to editorially related articles (errata, comments, replies, etc.)
• reference section with hyperlinks to cited article or to bibliographic databases (SPIN, INSPEC)
• links from references to SLAC SPIRES (PRD only) and LANL e-print archives
• improved rendering of math in HTML abstracts
• access to SPIN Web (formerly PINET Plus), including
  • SPIN bibliographic database (back to 1975)
  • tables of contents and abstracts for AIP-published journals (back to 1975)
  • abstracts of to-be-published articles
  • auxiliary features such as newsroom and physical sciences software
• "pay per view" of full articles for nonsubscribers (online document delivery)
• notification service for member subscribers

Future enhancements for APS Research Journals online include:

• page-at-a-time loading and viewing of PDF files (Acrobat 3)
• search assistance via term suggestion
• cross-journal fielded full-text searching
• full cross-journal linking
• links to HTML display of full-article metadata
• automatic profile-based searching with e-mail of results list
• enhanced "article collection" features

Physical Review A online

launch date: March 3, 1997
subscription info: free to members who have a print subscription to PRA; online-only subscription is available for $25; a completed subscription agreement is required. For further information on subscription rates, visit the Member Guide
questions and comments: contact assocpub@aps.org

Physical Review B online

launch date: July 1, 1997
subscription info: free to members who have a print subscription to PRB1 or PRB15; online-only subscription is available for $25; a completed subscription agreement is required. For further information on subscription rates, visit the Member Guide
questions and comments: contact assocpub@aps.org

Physical Review C Home Page

launch date: July 1, 1996
subscription info: free to members who have a print subscription to PRC; online-only subscription is available for $25; a completed subscription agreement is required. For further information on subscription rates, visit the Member Guide
questions and comments: contact assocpub@aps.org

Physical Review D Home Page

launch date: August 1, 1996
subscription info: free to members who have a print subscription to either part of PRD; online-only subscription is available for $25; a completed subscription agreement is required. For further information on subscription rates, visit the Member Guide
questions and comments: contact assocpub@aps.org

Physical Review E online

launch date: July 1, 1997
subscription info: free to members who have a print subscription to PRE; online-only subscription is available for $25; a completed subscription agreement is required. For further information on subscription rates, visit the Member Guide
questions and comments: contact assocpub@aps.org

Physical Review Letters online

launch date: July 1, 1995
subscription info: free to members who have a print subscription to PRL; online-only subscription is available for $25; a completed subscription agreement is required. For further information on subscription rates, visit the Member Guide
questions and comments: contact assocpub@aps.org

Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams

launch date: May 1, 1998
subscription info: free to all individual and institutional users. For further information, contact prstabco@aps.org or visit the PRST-AB home page.

Reviews of Modern Physics online

launch date: December 8, 1997
subscription info: free to members who have a print subscription to RMP; online-only subscription is available for $25; a completed subscription agreement is required. For further information on subscription rates, visit the Member Guide
questions and comments: contact assocpub@aps.org

Software Requirements

To access APS Research Journals online on the World Wide Web, you will need a Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer, that supports (a) authentication (login and password), (b) HTML forms (for database queries), and (c) HTML tables.

To download full-text PDF versions of articles and PDF versions of issue tables of contents, you will need a "viewer" that can display or otherwise manipulate PDF files, such as Adobe Acrobat Exchange, the Adobe Acrobat Reader, and the Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plug-in.

The APS PDF FAQ

To view PostScript (PS) files online, Ghostscript (GS) 4.03 or greater is required. Ghostview 1.5 together with Ghostscript will allow easier PS navigation. GS 4.03 or greater will also allow you to view PDF files.

The APS PostScript FAQ

A minimum modem speed of 14.4 kbps is recommended for basic access, although a modem speed of 28.8 kbps or greater is desirable for the downloading of PDF files due to the size of the files.

Technical Terms Commonly Used in Electronic Publishing

ATM: Adobe Type Manager; a software package that enhances the printing and display of some fonts.

Bookmark: a place-holder that allows the user of a browser or PDF viewer to quickly return to a page of interest.

Browser: Web client software (such as Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Mosaic) that is used to request information from web servers and to display that information for the user.

Client: a program running on the user's computer that manipulates or displays data provided by a server. (A WWW browser is an HTML client.)

HTML: HyperText Markup Language; the formatting language of WWW documents.

Hyperlink: a link (usually distinguishable by colored or otherwise highlighted text) from one HTML document to another. These hyperlinks can be represented by either highlighted words or images.

Hypertext: computer-displayed text and images providing links to related information.

Internet: The global network of computers. Though the internet has little centralized control, it relies on a standard set of protocols that allow computers to communicate with one another, whether directly over a local network or through a series of intermediate computers and communication lines linking the world.

PDF: Portable Document Format; a document-sharing format that allows information providers to render PostScript output (including layout, fonts, and graphics) usable across different computer platforms provided that the proper software be used to interpret the PDF files.

Plug-in: a software application (such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plug-in) that, once installed, is integrated into the browser and is launched when a user clicks on a file type that the plug-in was designed to interpret.

PostScript: a page description language widely used in publishing.

Server: a computer that serves information requested by clients.

URL: Uniform Resource Locator; the address of a resource on the WWW.

WWW: World Wide Web; the collection of computers (servers) that make information available using the http protocol and HTML. Users access "the web" via browsers (e.g. Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer) that speak http and can display HTML.

Weblink: a link within a PDF file to a URL.