The Optical Society (OSA) has announced the launch of several enhancements to its digital library, Optics InfoBase. Central to the new services that have launched is the reinvention of its journal article interface. With this new interface, users can more easily access and browse each article’s full-text, article-level metrics, interactive and embedded equations, and more than 200,000 images via the new Optics ImageBank product.
Additionally, the initial launch allows OSA the opportunity to make functional adjustments to all of these innovative offerings based on user feedback. The goal is to refine each new offering over the next six months.
All articles in OSA’s core journals from 2006 to present currently appear in the enhanced HTML article format. Over the next 24 months, OSA will be making all content from 1917 onward available as well.
OSA is also launching its innovative Optics ImageBank – a new interactive way to browse and search more than 200,000 images in Optics InfoBase. The Optics ImageBank not only allows images to be downloaded easily from within each article, it also provides users with the capability to search across related images appearing in other OSA journal articles from 2006 to today and enables users to quickly and easily import images and the associated citations into PowerPoint slides for use in the classroom, industry meetings, or other types of knowledge-sharing events.
