The full-text articles will appear online as a PDF, or an image of each journal page, but will be searchable due to an OCR—optical-character-reader—scanned document residing in the background. Like any other online journal article that APS publishes, the articles will be linked to PubMed and, like all APS journal content more than 12 months old, will be available to all free of charge on the Web.
The Legacy Data project will take place in three phases: back to 1985 by the summer of 2002, back to the beginning of Medline/PubMed (app. 1966) in 2003, and back to the beginning of APS publication history (1898) in 2004. The bound journals are taken apart and scanned page by page, destroying the bound journal in the process. As we get into the second and third phases, we may be requesting members to donate print copies of journals to fill in gaps and to keep one complete print set in the APS library. If you have early issues of the Society’s journals available for donation, please contact mreich@the-aps.org.
Deb Kreiser, Cadmus Journal Services, and Misty Highley and Carolyn Villemez, APS, pack the first set of APS journals to be archived.