SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, has announced that it is further reducing the prices of its SPIE Digital Library. The Society was among the first publishers to respond in 2009 to economic challenges besetting the research library community by reducing subscription prices.
SPIE is reducing current prices by 5 percent for 2012. SPIE implemented a 10 percent rollback in pricing for institutional subscriptions to the SPIE Digital Library in 2010 to help libraries contain costs, and sustained this by freezing prices in 2011.
SPIE has offered the price rollbacks while expanding services, features, and content for a growing number of companies, universities, and institutes. Looking forward, SPIE will continue adding new content to the library, and is planning a major new platform change and upgrade for launch next year.
This year, new functionality such as 'more-like-this' recommendations was added to the SPIE Digital Library, and the Society began publication of the new Journal of Photonics for Energy, which is freely available in 2011, and available by subscription starting in 2012. In 2010, SPIE added eBooks to the SPIE Digital Library, and launched its open-access journal SPIE Reviews.
The 5 percent price reduction applies to current and new subscriptions to the full SPIE Digital Library, which includes the Proceedings of SPIE and all SPIE Journals, and to topical segment subscriptions. It does not apply to consortia arrangements, for which customised discounts are already applied, however, 2012 prices for consortia will be frozen at 2011 rates. The price reduction does not apply to SPIE eBooks, specially discounted subscriptions or promotional packages, or to institutional subscriptions to journals purchased independently of the SPIE Digital Library.
The SPIE Digital Library claims to be the world's largest resource for optics and photonics research. The collection includes nearly 320,000 journal and proceedings articles published from 1990 to the present, with approximately 18,000 new articles added annually. Topics span the broad interdisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging, with applications across biomedicine, communications, energy, aerospace, defence, manufacturing, computing, sensors, entertainment, and electronics.
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