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About Optics InfoBase

Optics InfoBase is OSA's online library for OSA flagship journals and for partnered and copublished journals. It contains recent proceedings from OSA conferences. The Optics InfoBase has a variety of simple and advanced search and browse features for locating articles. It offers a growing number of tools for creating custom alerts and RSS feeds, linking to related content, exporting citations, and much more.

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CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING CONTENTS

Publication	Currently Available	ISSN	CODENs
Journal of the Optical Society of America A	1984-present	ISSN:1084-7529 eISSN: 1520-8532	JOAOD6
Journal of the Optical Society of America B	1984-present	ISSN: 0740-3224 eISSN: 1520-8540	JOBPDE
Applied Optics	1962-present	ISSN: 0003-6935 eISSN: 1539-4522	AOPOAI
Optics Letters	1977-present	ISSN: 0146-9592 eISSN: 1539-4794	OPLEDP
Optics Express	1997-present	eISSN: 1094-4087	OPEXFF
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking	2009-present	ISSN: 1943-0620 eISSN: 1943-0639	JOCNBB
Journal of Optical Networking	2002-2009	eISSN: 1536-5379	JONOAY
Advances in Optics and Photonics	New in 2009	ISSN: 1943-8206	AOPAC7
Journal of the Optical Society of America	1917-1984	ISSN: 0030-3941
Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics	2006-present	eISSN: 1931-1532
Optics and Photonics News	2002-present	ISSN: 1047-6938	OPPHEL
Optics News	1975-1983	ISSN: 0098-907X
Journal of Lightwave Technology	1998-present	ISSN: 0733-8724	JLTEDG
Journal of Optical Technology	1999-present	ISSN: 1070-9762	JOTEE4
Journal of Display Technology	2005-present	ISSN: 1551-319X	IJDTAL
Chinese Optics Letters	2003-present	ISSN: 1671-7694
Applied Spectroscopy	1946-present	ISSN: 0003-7028	APSPA4
Conference papers	See available papers

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OPTICS INFOBASE FEATURES

OSA made considerable enhancements to the Optics InfoBase in 2008. In addition to an all-new visual design, we offer the following new features:

Free Personalization Features

Saved Searches. The Saved Search alerts may be tailored based on a variety of fields, including journal name, author, or keyword. Receive customized alerts via e-mail or RSS feeds.
Table of Contents Alerts. Register and receive an e-mail alert for complete journal issues.
Personal Library. Similar to a virtual journal, this feature allows you to organize selected articles by topic for easy reference in the future.
Activity Reports. The Activity Reports records your downloads on the Optics InfoBase website.
Subscription Status. Subscription Status records which publications you have subscribed to and when you subscriptions expire.

Search and Navigation

Dynamic table of contents. The online journal tables of contents can now be sorted by topic or by page number. The table of contents can also be filtered to view articles for just one topic at a time.
Cross-journal table of contents. One of our newest features is a consolidated thematic table of contents for all recent OSA journal articles. Look for additional enhancements in 2009.
Enhanced conference navigation. Now researchers can browse through OSA Conference Papers by year and session name.
Faceted search results. Search results are now organized by topical OCIS category and journal. Users can click on the organization criteria (the "facets") to filter their search results.
Breadcrumb navigation. All Optics InfoBase and online journal pages now have breadcrumb navigation to orient readers and provide quick access to other locations of the site.
Author search. Researchers can quickly lookup all papers published by a particular author in the Optics InfoBase simply by clicking on an author name from the abstract page.
Simple search, fielded search, quick lookup. A new search interface appears on every online journal page for quick access to simple, advanced, and other types of searches. Searches may be run for specific titles, across titles, and even external to the Optics InfoBase.
External search, federated search. OSA has formal partnerships with Google Scholar, Scitopia, CrossRef, Thomson Reuters, and others. The Optics InfoBase has options for search of full text through Google Scholar and cross-publisher search through Scitopia.

Revealing Usage and Related Content

Top-downloaded articles. Our InfoBase reader survey shows that people value information about how others are using OSA journal content. Most popular is lists of top-downloaded articles, which we now display on each online journal page for the previous month.
Forward reference linking. OSA has added external forward citation links to show which articles across publishers cite the article being viewed. Forward citation linking is available for all OSA journals going back to 1917.
Related journal and proceedings articles. Now each abstract page displays related OSA content arranged by source journal as well as topic.
Social bookmarking, E-mail a colleague. Web 2.0 has been called the social web because it is characterized by tools that allow readers to add, annotate, and share content. The Optics InfoBase now has convenient ways for readers to export article records to popular social bookmarking websites; many of these websites have tools for discussion, rating, and similar tasks. We also provide a new "e-mail to a colleague" feature.
Tabbed display of content. To accommodate all these new functionalities, Optics InfoBase underwent a thorough redesign. We hope the new tabbed layout of abstract pages is easy to navigate, and allows you clearly find and use features you value most.