ECS Launches Digital Library Christine Orr 21 Mar 2006 15:24 UTC
Posted on behalf of the Electrochemical Society. Please excuse cross-posting. March 30, 2006 - The Electrochemical Society is pleased to announce the opening of the ECS Digital Library (ECS DL), the first step toward making all ECS content available all the time, in one seamless resource. While the ECS Digital Library is still in development, users can now search across both peer-reviewed ECS journals, Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) and the rapid-publication Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, as well as Meeting Abstracts. The journals are the leaders in the field (according to the ISI Science Citation Index) and the extended Meeting Abstracts gives scientists a first look into current research. In addition to robust, cross-publication searching, the ECS Digital Library (http://ecsdl.org/) offers many useful tools for the researcher. These include free cross-journal searching, the ability to view individual articles online before the entire journal is released, extensive links to primary publishers and databases, the ability to download full bibliographic citations, and a suite of personalization tools, such as MyArticles, which allows users to collect important articles, share them with colleagues, and manage multiple collections. The Society's newest publication, ECS Transactions (ECST), will be available through the Digital Library at the end of April. Interface magazine is now available through the DL and Interface articles will be integrated in the search function later in 2006. Once the ECS Digital Library is fully operational, the Society's proceedings volume series (now replaced by ECS Transactions) and older meeting abstracts content will be searchable, as well. ECS has been capturing the legacy content of JES going back to the first volume from 1902. Content will be added to the archives as it becomes available. ECS plans to add new features to the digital library, such as a History Center and a Learning Center. The Learning Center will introduce children and college students to electrochemistry and solid-state science and the fascinating role it plays in the world today. ECS will also add new features to the current ECS career center, which now includes as a job board and discussion forum for new and established scientists. The digital library will also include "rooms" for each of ECS's notable founders and leaders, and feature photographs, published work, and other material. The ECS Digital Library is being built for the Society by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and will be hosted on AIP's Scitation platform (scitation.aip.org). With the ECS Digital Library, ECS has added another high-quality resource for the broad scientific and technical community that encompasses electrochemistry and solid-state science and technology. The Electrochemical Society (ECS) is a 7,000-member organization of scientists and engineers in more than 75 countries worldwide. The Society has a long tradition in advancing the theory and practice of electrochemical and solid state science by dissemination of information through its publications and international meetings. Visit ECS on the Web at www.electrochem.org. For further information, contact: Mary E. Yess Deputy Executive Director, ECS mary.yess@electrochem.org