OSA Library Resource Center
Welcome to the new OSA Library Resource Center. Recognizing your need to have data at your finger tips, we have developed some critical resources to help you better manage your subscriptions to OSA publications. These resources include access to COUNTER compliant and other related usage statistics, your current account information, access to your institution's subscription history, as well as a view into the personalized My InfoBase service as seen by your patrons.
Should you have any questions about your institution's subscriptions or require any assistance with this service center, please do not hesitate to contact us at elec@osa.org or +1.202.416.1901.
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The News You Need to Know
OSA wants to make sure that you are kept abreast of important developments that affect your holdings and/or may be relevant to your patrons
New Products for 2012
OSA will be offering a broad range of new products to meet the needs of the librarian community. These products include:OSA's Digital Archive
Retain perpetual rights for your library to over 88 years of ground-breaking optics and photonics content with a one-time purchase to OSA's Digital Archive.
E-Combination Journal Package
OSA introduces a new online-only journal combination option that includes subscriptions to six OSA titles at significant savings.
Conference Proceedings Packages
2012 brings new options for OSA's Conference Proceedings, which allow for access to the entire conference proceedings collection, our Major Meeting Series or a single year conference proceedings.
Optics and Photonics News- Now Available Online-Only
Institutions now have the flexibility to subscribe to online-only access to OSA's premier news magazine, Optics and Photonics News (OPN).
OSA Image Bank
(available mid-2012) Search and view thousands of high-quality images from a selection of OSA journals for research and classroom use.
Meet OSA Journals Staff at the 2011 Charleston Conference
OSA staff from the Publishing department will be attending the 2011 Charleston Conference. We will be there from November 2 to November 4, 2011. We would love to hear your questions, compliments, critiques and suggestions about our journals. Hope to see you there!Spotlight on Optics — Alert Patrons to Free Journal Content
OSA's new Spotlight on Optics adds value for your patrons with free access to highlighted articles in the OSA journal collection. Journal Editors identify articles for Spotlight that have excellent scientific quality and put other work in perspective.www.opticsinfobase.org/spotlight
OSA Press Releases
- Flipping a Light Switch in the Cell: Quantum Dots Used for Targeted Neural Activation
Feb 8, 2012 - By harnessing quantum dots-tiny light-emitting semiconductor... more - OSA?s Applied Optics Journal Celebrates 50 Years of Publication
Feb 6, 2012 - The Optical Society (OSA) has kicked off its 50th anniversary... more - The Optical Society Launches Language-Editing and Article-Level Metrics Services for Journal Authors
Jan 31, 2012 - The Optical Society (OSA) today announced the launch of two new... more
