The IOP Journal Archive has been purchased by JISC and is available free of charge to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.
Institutions now have free online access to over 110,000 articles and 1.5 million pages of research from 40 journals published by the Institute of Physics between 1874 and 1998.
An access fee may apply after 30/12/2014.
For access to IOP content after 1998, see the IOP Journal Archive 1999-2006.
Content description
Over 800 volume years of information, the Institute of Physics Journal Archive consists of the following:
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Combustion Theory & Modelling
- Distributed Systems Engineering
- European Journal of Physics: Inverse Problems
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
- Journal of Optics (1977- 1998) - Now Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics (from 1999) Formed by Merger of Journal of Optics and Pure and Applied Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part A (1992-1998) - Formerly: Nouvelle Revue d'Optique (1973- 1976) - Formerly also Nouvelle Revue d'Optique Appliquée (1970-1972)
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General Physics (from 1975) - Formerly: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical, Nuclear and General Physics (1973-1974) - Formerly: Journal of Physics A: Proceedings of the Physical Society: General Physics (1968-1972)
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (from 1988) - Formerly: Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics (1970-1987) - Formerly: Journal of Physics B: Proceedings of the Physical Society: Atomic and Molecular Physics (1968-1969)
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (from 1989) Formed by merger of Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics (1970- 1988) - Formerly: Journal of Physics C: Proceedings of the Physical Society: Solid State Physics (1968-1969) and Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics (1971- 1988)
- Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics - Formerly British Journal of Applied Physics
- Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics - Formerly: Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics (1975-1988)
- Journal of Radiological Protection - Formerly : Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection (1981 - 1987)
- Measurement Science and Technology - Formerly: Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments (1968-1989) - Formerly Journal of Scientific Instruments
- Metrologia (1965-1998 only)
- Modelling & Simulation in Materials Science & Engineering Nanotechnology
- Network: Computation in Neural Systems
- New Journal of Physics
- Nonlinearity
- Nuclear Fusion (1992-1998)
- Physica Scripta 1970-1998
- Physics Education
- Physics in Medicine and Biology
- Physics in Technology - Formerly: Review of Physics in Technology
- Physiological Measurement - Formerly Clinical Physics and Physiological Measurement (1980-1992)
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion - Formerly: Plasma Physics (1967-1983)- Formerly Journal of Nuclear Energy Part C, Plasma Physics, Accelerators, Thermonuclear Research (1959- 1966)
- Plasma Sources Science & Technology
- Proceedings of the Physical Society of London (1874-1925)
- Proceedings of the Physical Society (1926-1948)
- Proceedings of the Physical Society Section A (1949-1957)
- Proceedings of the Physical Society Section B (1949-1957)
- Proceedings of the Physical Society (1958-1967)
- Quantum Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B (1989-1994)
- Quantum and Semiclassical Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B (1995- 1998)
- Reports on Progress in Physics
- Semiconductor Science and Technology
- Smart Materials & Structures
- Superconductor Science and Technology
- Transactions of the Optical Society (1899-1932)
- Waves in Random Media
As a result of an agreement with JISC, the content of the Archive is freely available to all UK Higher and Further education institutions.
Main subject areas
The archive applies to anyone working in the physical sciences, from plasma physics to condensed matter through to medical physics or nanotechnology.
Core subject areas:
- Applied Physics Computer Science
- Condensed matter and materials science
- General physics
- High energy and nuclear physics
- Mathematics, applied mathematics and mathematical physics
- Measurement science and sensors
- Medical and biological sciences
- Optical, atomic and molecular physics
- Physics education Plasma Physics
Academic level
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Date range
1874 to 1998 inclusive
Updates
Not applicable
Publisher's selection policy
The IOP Journal Archive is a digital collection of nearly all the work published by the Institute of Physics between 1874 and 1998. The archive comprises over 120,000 peer-reviewed articles.
Complementary resources
The most significant developments in the Physics subject area can be discovered using both the Institute of Physics Journal Archive and the Physics titles in the Oxford Journals Archive.
You can subscribe to this content via the publisher's platform. Access to the content is free until 31 December 2014. An access fee may be required after this date.
Alternatively, institutions can host the content for free.
Subscribe to this agreement until 31 December 2014 and have access to the content via the publisher's platform.
Host this content yourself.
The agreement complies with the terms of the JISC Model Licence.
For further details of the JISC Model Licence please refer to the Guide to the JISC Model Licence.
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Functionality and standards compliance
Full text linking
The product contains a variety of links from references - CrossRef, other links to full text at preprint servers and publisher sites, links to abstracts at PubMed, ChemPort etc. and links to document delivery services (currently Infotrieve).
In addition, the product is OpenURL compliant, and compatible with link resolvers and library portals such as MetaLib. More details at http://www.iop.org/EJ/help/-topic=hypercite/ or contact custserv@iop.org.
Federated searching
The product is searchable via z39.50 - see http://www.iop.org/EJ/help/-topic=z3950/ or contact custserv@iop.org.
MARC records
Currently MARC records are not provided.
Metadata standards
Metadata may be harvested using OAI-PMH - contact judith.barnsby@iop.org for access to the OAI repository.
Harvestable OAI data is provided in Dublin Core - see http://www.iop.org/EJ/help/-topic=oai/. RSS feeds are provided for all journals in several formats - see http://syndication.iop.org for more details. On request, customers may also obtain automatic email deliveries of article metadata that conforms to the NLM DTD.
Search options
Searches may be performed on article metadata and abstracts, or on the full text of the article. Searches may be performed on the entire journals database, or restricted to specific journals, collections or subject areas. Results may be clustered using Vivisimo technology.
Post-search options
Results may be exported in a variety of formats compatible with the major reference management tools. Results can be emailed, downloaded or delivered to the browser. Users may create a personal account and store saved searches.
Usage statistics
IOP is working towards COUNTER compliance. Usage statistics (typically full text downloads by journal) may be requested online at http://www.iop.org/EJ/statreq or by contacting custserv@iop.org.
Authentication
Authentication is via the UK Access Management Federation, Athens, and IP range.
Personalisation of the online resource
Users may create a personal account that allows them to save searches, create email alerts, and save articles of interest.
Accessibility
IOP have followed the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines to improve our site and make it as accessible as possible for all users. IOP would be pleased to receive any comments, feedback or requests for further improvements at custserv@iop.org.
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