SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced reduced or frozen subscription prices for subscribers of the SPIE Digital Library. An additional 40,000 articles from 1962-1989 are also being added to the collection, at no additional cost to subscribers.
This is the fourth consecutive year that SPIE has frozen subscription prices for the SPIE Digital Library. With this move, the Society seeks to ensure affordable access to the largest and widely used collection of optics and photonics literature to the greatest number of researchers, and also meet its commitment to address the long-term budgetary pressures facing libraries.
The 40,000 conference proceedings and journal articles to be added to the SPIE Digital Library this summer will extend the digital collection to the beginning of the society's publishing programme which began in 1962. This much-requested and difficult-to-find older content includes pioneering and fundamental technical papers dating from 1962 through 1989.
In addition to its nine journals and over 8,000 conference proceedings volumes, the SPIE Digital Library includes the SPIE eBooks collection containing monographs, tutorial texts, and field guides published by the SPIE Press.
To support researchers in developing or low-income countries, SPIE participates in the eJDS programme of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, providing papers on demand to individual scientists, and the Information Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications PERii programme, providing access to libraries in developing nations at low or reduced rates.
