SPIE Digital Library Now Available to High Schools, Two-Year Colleges at No or Low Cost

"One of the most extensive, widely cited digital libraries in the dynamic field of optics and photonics is now available to high school and junior college students and faculty at no or very low cost. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, announced today that it is making access to the complete SPIE Digital Library available to high schools for free and two-year colleges at a subsidized price ... 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, Pepper said. SPIE also provides free or low cost SPIE Digital Library access to institutions in eligible countries through theINASP (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.  Subsidized pricing for two-year colleges for the SPIE Digital Library and eBooks will be US$995 for a 12-month subscription, Pepper said ..."