APS announces a substantially improved search interface for Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA).
APS's entire journal collection from 1893-present is searchable via PROLA's interface.
New features include:

- A greatly improved interface for viewing, navigating, and refining
search results
- Search result ranking by citation counts (as provided by publishers
participating in CrossRef's Forward Linking program)
- Easy searching on articles chosen as PRL Editors' Suggestions,
freely available through our 'Free To Read' program, or featured in
Physical Review Focus
- Improved speed

Check out some of the nice new features: http://prola.aps.org/search

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A group of scholarly societies is uniting to create more direct access to their collective content. In June, thirteen of the world’s leading science and technology societies will launch scitopia.org, a free federated vertical search portal that will enable users to explore the research most cited in scholarly work and patents in a single click.

More than three million documents, including peerreviewed journal content and conference proceedings, spanning 150 years of science and technology will be searched through this dedicated gateway.

Founding partners include:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society (APS)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
IEEE
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
Optical Society of America (OSA)
SPIE
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Researchers at institutions with subscriptions to the content will be automatically authenticated and will be able to click through to it.

We will follow the development of this exciting cooperative initiative and as soon as it is available it will be accessible through the libraries' web site. Their web site is: http://www.scitopia.org/

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PhysMath Central has just announced their first journal, PMC Physics A, is now open for submissions. An international, peer-reviewed, open access journal covering particle & nuclear physics, gravity, cosmology & astroparticle physics. There is also a special section devoted to instrumentation and data analysis.

Professor Ken Peach is editor-in-chief. Professor Peach holds roles at Oxford University and Royal Holloway University, London. He is also chair of CERNs Scientific Policy Committee.

By way of celebration, there will be no charge for all articles accepted for publication in PMC Physics A, submitted before 30 June 2007. After this date a standard article processing charge will apply.

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