| What is an APS Article Pack? |
An APS Article Pack is a bulk discount purchase of any 20 APS articles from Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A - E and Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA). You may search and browse the APS Physical Review journals and any full-text article you download will be added to your Article Pack. Your Pack will remain active for one full year in coordination with your APS membership term, thus during that time you will maintain full access to all of your downloaded articles and may select new articles with any unused portion of your Pack. For APS members, Article Packs represent a significant savings over single-article purchases. Users will be limited to a single 20-article APS pack annually, and will not be permitted to purchase another pack until their annual membership renewal.
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| What is an APS/AIP Joint Article Pack? |
An APS/AIP Joint Article Pack is a bulk discount purchase of articles from selected APS and AIP journals. Select and download either fifteen (15) or thirty (30) articles in PDF format from across the collection of Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A - E, PROLA, Applied Physics Letters, Chaos, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Low Temperature Physics, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, Review of Scientific Instrumentation and AIP Conference Proceedings. Your Pack will remain active for one full year in coordination with your APS membership term, thus during that time you will maintain full access to all of your downloaded articles and may select new articles with any unused portion of your Pack. For APS members, a Joint Article Pack represents a significant savings over single-article purchases. Users will be limited to a single 15 or 30-article Joint pack annually, and will not be permitted to purchase another pack until their annual membership renewal.
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| How do I buy the APS Article Pack or APS/AIP Joint Article Pack? |
Active APS members may purchase up to one (1) APS Article Pack and one (1) APS/AIP Joint Article Pack per membership term, up to two months prior to their membership term expiration date. Requests may be made directly on the APS renewal notice, added through the online renewal process or by contacting a Membership Representative at 301-209-3280 or membership@aps.org.
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| Can I purchase an APS Article Pack and an APS/AIP Joint Pack during the same membership term? |
Yes, an active APS member may purchase a single 20-article APS pack and a single 15 or 30-article APS/AIP Joint article pack per one membership term. Members are limited to one [1] of each pack per year and will not be able to add a 15 joint article pack to an existing 15 joint article pack subscription. Any additional articles will have to be purchased through Pay-per-view sales.
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| After my account is set up, how do I download articles to my Article
Pack? |
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Article Packs are intended for members to download full text for
articles from APS and/or AIP journals to which they do not subscribe.
To begin using your APS Member Article Pack, you can sign in at the Member Article Pack Account Summary Page located
at http://scitation.aip.org/scitationlink/?action=myAPSAPReport, or just begin browsing or searching the applicable journals.
All abstracts and ToCs are free to anyone. PDF and PS files will require your
login and password, to be loaded to your Pack.
To begin browsing/searching, click on the links in the table below and proceed as follows:
- To find articles by browsing, click on a journal link.
- Click on an HTML Table of Contents link or a Volume link.
- From a Volume list, click on an HTML Table of Contents.
- Select any PDF of GZipped PS link from the Table of Contents, or click on the abstract. You can select articles from the Table of Contents or the abstract.
- For articles in PROLA, select the "Use Article Pack" link.
- The selected article will appear in your personal summary in a few minutes.
Please note that you will be prompted for your login when you click on a PDF, PS, or Search link.
To find articles by searching, click the "Search all Physical Review Journals" link above. Perform a search and select any PDF or GZipped PS link from the results list or from the absctract. For articles in PROLA, select the "Use Article Pack" link.
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| Will I be charged (debited) for "correction" articles? |
Downloaded articles that include links to "correction" articles, such as Errata, Publisher's Notes, Corrected
Articles, Editorial Notes, and Retractions, are debited as a single article. Users will not be charged for these
articles if the source article or the linked article was previously purchased. These articles will appear on the
Account Summary as a related article. The related articles will be indented with the source article appearing
above, in bold.
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| How can I monitor my download history and check to see how many downloads
I have left? |
To view your download history or to check to see how many downloads are remaining in your account, login
to your personal Account Summary where the following information is provided:
- The articles in your download history are listed by the date and time they were downloaded.
- Each title in the list is linked to the article abstract.
- Each article in the list includes links to the full-text PDF and PS files.
- Each article in the list will include the "correction" article information and links to the full-text PDF and
PS files, if applicable.
- Your download total, remaining downloads, and the expiration date of your account are indicated toward the top of the
page.
The Member Article Pack Account Summary Page also features three on-screen warnings to alert you when you
have five downloads remaining, two downloads remaining, and when you've exhausted your downloads. These on-screen
alerts are complemented by e-mail notifications.
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| How much time do I have to download my articles? |
You may select and download your allotted articles over the course of a 12-month period. Rights to download
new articles cease in two cases: (1) all articles have been downloaded, or (2) the 12-month period has
elapsed. If you exhaust all of your downloads prior to the end of the 12-month period, you will still be able to
view previously downloaded articles and your account summary until the end of the 12-month term.
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| For how long will my Article Pack account remain active? |
Your account will be considered active for the entire 12-month period of your subscription, regardless of the
number of downloads remaining in your pack. With an active account, you will be able to access your entire
account history and view previously downloaded articles. If you choose not to renew your pack before the end of
this 12-month period, your account becomes inactive and all access will be terminated.
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| What happens to any remaining downloads in my subscription if I choose not to renew at the end of the 12-month period? |
Any unused downloads will be forfeited at the end of your 12-month subscription, unless a renewal membership
and subscription payment is received by APS.
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| What happens to my "Article Pack Summary" if I choose not to
renew and allow my account to become inactive? |
Inactive accounts will become disabled and you will no longer be able to access your Member Article Pack
personal summary. For disabled accounts, AIP will store the download history in the Member Article Pack Summary
for one year after the expiration date of the account. If, before the end of this time, you choose to renew, all of
your download history will appear once again in your account and any unused downloads will be credited to your
account. For example, if you had 5 unused downloads on a 20 article APS Pack and you renew within one year from your expiration date, your
account will now have 25 downloads remaining.
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| Where can I get technical help about downloading, printing, and viewing PDFs? |
Adobe Corporation maintains an excellent, well-maintained repository of technical guides for users of Acrobat and
PDFs. These documents cover configuring browsers for use with Acrobat, resolving printing problems, troubleshooting
downloading and file-saving problems, etc. The main gateway for these comprehensive guides is at
- http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
If you've consulted the guides to solve a problem without success, please contact Customer Support at the points of
contact listed below.
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| What if I experience other technical problems? |
If you experience any technical problems using your APS Member Article Pack or managing your account online,
please contact:
- Online Services Customer Support
- American Institute of Physics
- Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle
- Melville, NY 11747-4502 USA
- Phone (U.S. and Canada): +1 800 874 6383
- Phone (other locations): +1 516 576 2664
- FAX: +1 516 576 2604
- E-mail: onlinehelp@aip.org
Customer service office hours are currently from 07:30 to 23:00 Eastern (U.S.) Standard Time (13:30 to 04:00 GMT).
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