SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that it is making access to the complete SPIE Digital Library available to high schools for free and two-year colleges at a subsidised price.
According to SPIE Director of Publications Eric Pepper, the new program is aligned with the not-for-profit society's mission to ensure affordable access to its publications to the greatest number of researchers possible.
SPIE also provides free or low cost SPIE Digital Library access to institutions in eligible countries through the INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) program, and to researchers in participating countries through the eJDS (electronics Journals Delivery Service) program of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
The SPIE Digital Library contains more than 420,000 articles from SPIE journals and proceedings, as well as more than 200 eBooks. Abstracts are freely searchable, and an increasing number of full articles in the society's 10 peer-reviewed journals are published with open access. Approximately 18,000 new research papers, eBooks, and other publications are added each year.
