AIP Publishing, a division of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), has reinforced its commitment to deliver world-class content, accessibility and outreach. It has stated that it recognises that the STM publishing landscape is evolving due to scientists' changing information needs, technological advancements and emerging trends. These are seen to impact the way that content is gathered, enriched, disseminated and made discoverable. AIP is well aware of the factors driving these changes, including the proliferation of mobile devices and their increasing use to acquire scholarly information, open access publishing models, semantic search engines and the explosion of social media for informal communication among scientists.
AIP seeks to provide quality, reliable content to the scientific community and advance the science of physics as a publisher of leading research journals, magazines and conference proceedings. Its purported commitment to value underlies its continued investment in peer-reviewed content, new tools for authors and editors, and numerous projects that enhance its offerings. Its current tiered pricing model was reportedly established to offer equitable prices for online access to institutions of varying size and research intensity. The publisher’s 2013 online journal pricing represents a 4% increase, which applies to every title, across every tier.
Beginning November 2012, AIP’s online journals will be hosted via Publishing Technology's pub2web, which is said to offer industry-proven architecture combined with powerful semantic web technology to deliver an optimal user experience. AIP is collaborating with Publishing Technology in a bid to ensure that the migration from Scitation to the pub2web platform will proceed as smoothly and seamlessly as possible.
