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This weeks digest contains two messages:

(1) OSA's Digital Archive is Now Available
(2) Discoverability White Paper Available from Sage

(1)----------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:36:37 +0000
From: "Tourtlotte, Alan" <ATOURT@osa.org>
Subject: OSA's Digital Archive is Now Available

OSA Launches New Digital Archive Licensing

The Optical Society (OSA) http://www.osa.org announces the launch of its
new OSA Digital Archive - a product that was developed in response to
customer feedback and offers institutions with the option to acquire
perpetual rights to 88 years of OSA journal, magazine, and conference
proceeding content for a one-time purchase.  The archive provides access
to pioneering research in optics and photonics from all of OSA's core
publications including research published by Nobel Laureates and
prestigious members of the physics and engineering communities.

The OSA Digital Archive includes approximately 108,000 articles from all
of OSA's flagship publications and conference proceedings including:

   *	Optics Express, 1997-2005
   *	Optics Letters, 1977-2005
   *	Applied Optics, 1962-2005
   *	Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 1984-2005
   *	Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 1984-2005
   *	Journal of the Optical Society of America, 1917-1983
   *	Optics and Photonics News, 1990-2005
   *	Optics News, 1975-1989
   *	OSA Conference Proceedings, 1979-2005

As part of the OSA Digital Archive, perpetual ownership rights can be
purchased for applicable content from the first issue of publication
through December 2005. For more information, please contact:

Alan Tourtlotte
Director, Publishing Sales
OSA - The Optical Society
Tel: +1 202.416.1908
Fax: +1 202.416.1408
Email: atourt@osa.org

About The Optical Society
Uniting more than 130,000 professionals from 175 countries, The Optical
Society (OSA) brings together the global optics community through its
programs and initiatives. Since 1916 OSA has worked to advance the common
interests of the field, providing educational resources to the scientists,
engineers and business leaders who work in the field by promoting the
science of light and the advanced technologies made possible by optics and
photonics. OSA publications, events, technical groups and programs foster
optics knowledge and scientific collaboration among all those with an
interest in optics and photonics. For more information, visit www.osa.org.

The Optical Society
2010 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036 USA
Tel: +1 202.223.8130
Fax:+1 202.223.1096
www.osa.org

(2)----------------------------
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:09:43 -0700
From: "Loar, Ashley" <Ashley.Loar@sagepub.com>
Subject: Discoverability White Paper

SAGE commissioned a white paper recently on discoverability. Paper authors
Barbara Schader and Mary Somerville, as well as Joe Esposito, John Sack
and John Law, talked about various aspects of discoverability at a
breakfast in Dallas at ALA Midwinter.

Access to this white paper is available for all in both HTML and pdf
formats. Click on the links below:

PDF download access:
http://surveys.sagepublications.com/Survey.aspx?surveyid=3431

HTML version:
http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/librarian/DiscoverabilityWhitePaper/

We hope these are useful and will help move the topic forward!

Thanks,

Ashley Loar

Ashley Wrye Loar
PR Manager
SAGE Publications Inc
2455 Teller Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
USA

T: 805.410.7111
M:805.490.5974
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