The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced the launch on its Scitation online hosting platform of Astronomy Education Review (AER), an open access journal published by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Astronomy Education Review was established in 2001 to communicate new ideas and resources for teaching and outreach in astronomy and space sciences.
Scitation's extensive reach and functionality is expected to enhance the discoverability of AER content through a number of critical features, including XML tagging, Google indexing, CrossRef linking, and RSS feeds and table of contents alerts. Additional functionality will be brought to bear through hosting on Scitation via a number of article and Web 2.0 tools, including the ability to download/view citations in a variety of styles, such as Bibtex, Endnote, and COinS format. AIP will also see to the preservation and archiving of AER content by delivering the journal's electronic files to the Portico archive.
In addition, AIP Publishing Services currently provides production services for Astronomy Education Review. These services include the conversion of author files to XML, copyediting, proofreading, page makeup, delivering PDF proofs to authors, delivering richly tagged content for online publication, and a host of other functions that contribute to an error-free, streamlined process.
