Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science

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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 21:20:55 -0500 (EST)

Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science
           
http://www.iovs.org/

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
(ARVO) is pleased to announce that the full text of
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS) is now
available online.

Many readers in Europe and Asia may find faster access at
the URL:
            http://intl.iovs.org

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS) is the
official journal of the Association for Research in Vision
and Ophthalmology (ARVO), an international organization
whose purposes are to encourage and assist research,
training, publication, and dissemination of knowledge in
vision and ophthalmology.  Included are original and
significant contributions to basic and clinical science.
The results reported are carefully peer reviewed and chosen
to clearly advance the fields of ophthalmic and vision
research.  Subjects cover the 13 sections represented by
ARVO's membership.  Short updates on notable new
developments in important research areas are also published
but only by invitation.  Summaries of meetings/symposia and
general review articles are not included.

IOVS online contains the full content of each issue of the
journal, including all figures and tables.  In addition,
the full text is searchable by keyword, and the cited
references include hyperlinks to Medline and to the online
full text of many other frequently-cited journals.

Online full-text content begins with the July 1999 issue
(40 (8): 1631-1889), and will expand with each month's new
issue.  Abstract files are online beginning with the
January 1975 issue (14 (1): 1-81), and tables of contents
from October 1965 (4 (5): 746-941).  All full-text content
is searchable.  The December 1999 issue is the latest issue
online.

Each issue will be placed online approximately on the date
it is mailed to subscribers; therefore the online site will
be available prior to receipt of your paper copy.

The Web site also provides access to information about the
journal (such as Instructions to Authors, the Editorial
Board, and subscription information), as well as access to
other services.

Online readers may want to sign up for the "eTOCs" service.
This service allows you to receive tables of contents for
IOVS via email, or alternately to be notified when new
issues of IOVS are published online.  Other special
features of the journal online include electronically
submitted letters to the editor (eletters), and articles
collected by topic.

The site is free and available to all on the Internet until
April 30, 2000.  During the free trial period all users of
the Internet have access to the full content of the journal
online.  After this date, access to full text will be
limited to individual and institutional subscribers;
however, access to the rest of the material (including
abstracts, editorials, tables of contents) will continue to
be available to all.

We very much encourage you, on your first visit to the
site, to "sign the guestbook." This will take only a minute
or two, and will give us helpful information about who the
online readers are, and how they are connecting to us.  In
addition, we would appreciate comments, critiques,
questions, or suggestions from you; these can be sent via
the Feedback button found on all pages of the site.
Feedback from readers will help us decide what new features
would be most valuable for the site and how well it is
working for its readers.

The site is being produced in conjunction with
Stanford University's HighWire Press, which also works with
other medical/research journals, such as these
frequently-cited journals: the Journal of Biological
Chemistry, the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (USA), Science, the Journal of Cell Biology, and
the American Journal of Physiology.  A list of science
journals and URLs is available at:

          http://highwire.stanford.edu or
          http://intl.highwire.org

(Please forward this information to your colleagues who may
be interested in IOVS.)

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Gerald J. Chader, PhD, MDhc, Editor-in-Chief
        Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Frances A. Marchbank, Managing Editor
        Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
John Sack, Director,
        HighWire Press, Stanford University

Vance 

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Vance E. Bell, Jr.
P.O. Box 31907
Philadelphia, PA  19104-1907  USA
email:  vbell@dept.english.upenn.edu