The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has arranged for the SPIE Digital Library to become available free of charge to researchers and students in more than 90 countries served by ICTP's electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS). Through eJDS, ICTP distributes scientific articles via email to individual scientists in institutions with insufficient or unaffordable Internet connection.
Under the arrangement with SPIE, participating researchers will now gain access to the SPIE Digital Library's 260,000 technical articles from the Society's journals and conference proceedings. The eJDS is aimed at individual scientists in low-income countries who often suffer from professional isolation and poor facilities. Content provided by eJDS focuses on photonics, optics, physics, and mathematics.
The SPIE Digital Library is accessible through key search engines and scientific databases as well as independently at SPIEdigitallibrary.org. It contains the world's largest collection of optics, photonics, imaging, sensor and scientific and technical research. To keep researchers informed, the society publishes six scholarly journals and a variety of print media publications.
