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IOPscience extra

IOPscience extra

Exclusive access, exception content

Our premium electronic-only subscription package offers researchers more than 140 years of IOP Publishing content including some of the most vital scientific, technical and medical research ever published, in one fully integrated resource.

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New for 2015 – 2D Materials (2DM) and Materials Research Express (MRX)

2DM and MRX covers

Editorially unique, two new multidisciplinary journals, enable IOP Publishing to respond to author and reader demand across the growing materials research community.

What is included in IOPscience extra?

Over 70 prestigious journals, including our renowned Journal of Physics series

Subjects covering biomedical engineering, condensed matter, graphene, materials, nanotechnology, quantum information and semiconductors in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, biological physics, chemistry, engineering, environment, mathematics, physics and medical physics.

In excess of 430,000 articles

On average around 2200 full-text articles are added every month via technical reports, review articles, conference proceedings and special issues as well as regular papers.

A focus on delivering research in the fields your institution needs

IOPscience extra provides international breakthroughs, pioneering achievements and exciting new developments across 12 areas that reflect the needs of the scientific research community. These specially compiled subject groups include our rapidly growing materials science portfolio, and our expanding medical physics collection.

  • IOPmaterials
  • Plasma physics
  • Instrumentation and measurement
  • Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology
  • Condensed matter
  • Atomic and molecular physics
  • Biophysics, biomedical engineering and medical physics
  • Nuclear and particle physics
  • Applied physics
  • Optics and photonics
  • Mathematical, computational and theoretical physics
  • Earth, environment and climate

Our complete archive – every article published since 1874

Comprising more than 300,000 articles, this provides an indispensable resource for the physics community, enabling researchers to track the progression of important research and download papers no matter when they were published.

Physics World Archive

Every article published since the magazine's launch in 1988, including more than 11,000 news items, feature articles, comments and reviews. The Physics World Archive offers a real insight into the key breakthroughs in physics over the last 27 years and is usually only available by subscription.

How to get access

IOPscience extra is available as an electronic-only subscription, making it easily accessible to every researcher at your institution. Access is enabled by IP address range and prices are tailored to your institution.

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IOPscience extra would provide every researcher at your institution with:

  • A huge breadth of quality journal content, all in one place
  • No frustrating turnaways from the full text: download what you want to
  • Access to the full archives – download papers no matter when they were published
  • Access to additional content: traditional journal articles alongside preprints, news, Proquest Dissertations and Theses

With IOPscience extra you and your fellow researchers will be able to:

  • Discover important articles that you might otherwise miss, across our subject coverage
  • Find relevant content quickly with our search filtering
  • Take advantage of a range of functionality including linked citations and references, article tagging, social bookmarking, and RSS feeds, all designed to make article discovery effortless.
"Thanks for the great opportunity to search in an additional stream of scientific works. It works for me like a charm."
Milan Berta, Laboratory of Terahertz Spectroscopy,
Institute of Physics of the AS CR, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic

How will IOPscience extra benefit me and my institution?

  • Provides access to all IOP content* for every researcher at your institution
  • Easy electronic-only access, no paper copies to process
  • No gaps in access provision, as IOPscience extra includes our full archives
  • Stops frustrating turnaways from the full-text, for all your users
  • Gain access to additional content streams alongside IOP content, including ProQuest dissertations and theses links, preprints and news
  • Allows your researchers to discover relevant content amongst previously unsubscribed titles
  • All provided from an easy-to-use service, built to make finding articles effortless

* apart from titles from The Astronomical Society

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"Our library has had a very satisfactory experience. It is a unique platform with multiple features for information, search and retrieval, developed from a collection of highly rated titles"
Inna Steklyar, Head of Periodicals Department,
Neiman Library of Exact Sciences and Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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These posters aim to remind the researchers at your institution of the exclusive electronic access to exceptional IOP Publishing content that is available to them through your institution's subscription to IOPscience extra.

They are available to download at no cost. If you would like us to send you pre-printed copies, simply e-mail iopscience@iop.org with your name, complete mailing address, and the quantity that you require.

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These editable pdfs have been developed for you to use and will save you valuable time when communicating your institution's access to IOPscience extra. The messages provide a brief summary of the content available and useful links to additional support pages.

So, whether you have been a subscriber to IOPscience extra for a while and wish to re-engage with your researchers, you have recently joined IOPscience extra as a new subscriber or, equally importantly, you have enrolled in a trial of IOPscience extra, all you need to do is find the correct message you wish to communicate and insert your institution's name at the top of the document followed by your contact details at the bottom of the page. Your message is then ready to be sent to your contacts or uploaded onto your institution's website.

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