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September 2001: References to Contemporary Papers on Acoustics is now available in JASA online.

January 26, 2001: Now subscribers to The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) can view entire articles in HTML format beginning with the January 2001 issue. This option is accessible through "HTML" and "Sectioned HTML" links appearing in the HTML tables of contents and in abstract views.

January 2, 2001: JASA now contains abstracts from 1975–1996 (Vols. 57–100). For these issues, full-text articles in PDF format, PDF TOCs, and references are not available.

June 22, 2000: Effective with the July 2000 issue of JASA-O, Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO) no longer appears as an integrated section of the journal. More information is available here.

July 19, 1999:

Holding time for Article Collections has been extended from 30 to 90 days. A collection will be stored for 90 days without user access. If the collection has not been accessed for 90 days it will be deleted. The Online Help contains more information.
The Tables of Contents now display PDF links for every item in the tables of contents. Previously, PDF links were only displayed for those items which began on the first page of a multiple item PDF. More detailed information is available here.

June 4, 1999: All abstracts in JASA-O are now available for free. Subscribers should click on "Show References" in order to login to view the reference lists.

March 9, 1999: ARLO (Acoustics Research Letters Online) has been added to JASA and JASA-O. ARLO is a new rapid publication section of The Journal which allows authors to include links to multimedia files in the PDF version of the article. Links to the ARLO Information Center are available from the navigational headers and footers in JASA-O, or you may click here.

January 13, 1999: References and reference links have been added to this journal, and related-paper-linking features of this journal have been upgraded. See Reference Sections and Reference Linking in Abstracts and Related-Paper ("See Also") Citations and Links in Abstracts for more details regarding the changes. At this time references and reference links are only available in 1999 issues, however all issues from 1997-onward will display references and reference links as the back issues are upgraded to this new feature.

December 7, 1998:

Support for browsers that either (a) do not natively support cookies, or (b) access this journal with cookie support disabled has been removed from the system. Users can freely navigate content above this journal's fee/free line with either cookie-challenged clients or with cookie acceptance disabled, but authentication for content below the line (references, full text, searching) requires that browsers be configured to accept cookies. More information can be found in the Online Help.
A new Author Search Interface has been added, which will allow users to search more effectively using initials.
Additional enhancements have been made to the intrajournal navigation system and are fully described in the Online Help.
All PostScript files are now delivered as compressed Level 2 PostScript, which are "gzipped" files. Compressed PostScript allows for faster file downloads, and gzipped files can be easily decompressed with file utilities that are freely available for all computer platforms. More information on working with gzipped PostScript is available in the Online Help.

July 30, 1998: Software changes have been installed to aid in the future enhancement of this journal. The immediate implications of this are as follows:

Your bookmarks or favorites for the tables of contents and volume/issue lists must be updated. If you use an old bookmark or favorite link to one of these pages, you will be asked to access the journal directly and reset your bookmark(s) or favorite(s) accordingly.
Inline image representations of mathematical entities that cannot be displayed as HTML characters are now available in article titles. For more information about HTML rendering of complex mathematical expressions, please see the help file "HTML Limitations: Math; Author Affiliations".

June 11, 1998: JASA Online now includes all 1997 issues available as back issues which can be browsed or searched. In addition, the full-text of all of the articles are available online for downloading as PDF or PostScript files.

June 4, 1998: JASA Online is available to ASA members. Click here for details.

March 23, 1998: An additional feature, the "Article Collection" has been added to this journal. A subscriber now has the ability to select or "bookmark" articles and hold them in a file to be retrieved as often as desired over a period of 30 days. Complete details are available here.

January 5, 1998: JASA Online available to institutional subscribers. Click here for details.

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Service Description

If you are able to access full-text articles and perform searches without being prompted for a password and username, you are doing so via a subscription paid for by your library or institution.

The Tables of Contents (PDF and HTML) are not password protected. Password/username will be requested in order to view abstracts, for searching, and for viewing/downloading full text (PDF and GZipped PostScript). Password/username login will be requested for all non-IP address authenticated access, and is requested only once per "session." A "session" is defined as the period between entrance/login authentication and exit; or 15 minutes of idle time. NOTE: Password/username is not requested, at any point, for access via an institutional subscription.

This online journal enables users to:

Browse an HTML version of the current issue Table of Contents (TOC), which contains hyperlinks from each article to its abstract as well options to either download full text as PDF or PostScript files. From the abstract "view," users can also download the full-text of the article as either a PDF or GZipped PostScript file, including all figures, tables, and references. In addition, users can select from a list of all available prior issues, and browse any HTML TOC, read abstracts, and view PDF (and PostScript) articles (or place a document delivery order).

Browse a PDF version of the TOC of the current issue (and of all available prior issues), which contains weblinks to the full-text PDF article.

Search a "Current Issue" database, featuring the option to view full-text PDF and/or PostScript articles from the abstract "view."

Search an "All Issues" database, featuring the option to view full-text PDF and/or PostScript articles from the abstract "view."

Inline image representations of mathematical entities that cannot be displayed as HTML characters are now available in article titles. However, "wordmath" equivalents (i.e., the word "alpha" or the string [alpha sup 2]) are retained in the "alt tags" (alternate text) associated with each image for users that have their browsers configured to suppress display of images.

In addition to the PDF full-text option, a PostScript (Level 2) viewing option is available. For more information on viewing and printing PostScript files, consult the Online Help specific to using the Ghostscript/Ghostview application.

A password-changing mechanism is available for individual users. For access and more information, consult the pertinent Online Help section.

Some cosmetic features are worth noting:

The HTML TOCs feature an option to view the full text of the article as either a PDF file or a GZipped PostScript file.
The abstract displays feature multiple "View Article" links throughout the page.
The PACS numbers are displayed after the PII on the bottom of each abstract since the tabular array of bibliographic information has been relocated to another page. The "Additional Information" page can be accessed by following the "Additional Information" link appearing after the PACS numbers.

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Getting Started

Here's a recommended checklist for first-time users:

Those users who wish to have the most direct access to the PDF version of all of the news items, patents, and articles in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America should download the PDF version of the Table of Contents. There are certain programming limitations inherent in the HTML Table of Contents which affect direct access to the PDFs of some items of interest. The limitation is that a PDF link is not displayed for an item, although a PDF does exist for that item. Physically small items that are placed on a single print page are most commonly subjected to this limitation. Articles are not subjected to this display limitation. We apologize for this inconvenience, and are working to solve the problem.

Make sure you have a current browser that supports (a) authentication (login and password), (b) HTML forms (for database queries), (c) HTML tables, (d) JavaScript (JavaScript support must be enabled to take full advantage of all Article Collection functions, as well as some functions of the reference-linking and related-article-linking functions), and (e) cookies. IMPORTANT: Authentication requires that cookies be enabled in a cookie-capable browser; more information is available in the Online Help. While several other browsers are "Netscape-compliant," and their use should allow you to take full advantage of all of the journal's features, we recommend Netscape Navigator (more details are available from the Online Help page). As stated, authentication is required in order to enforce the publisher's subscription controls over its journals. This control is based on Netscape software products, and depends on the Netscape "cookie" mechanism (please refer to the OJPS FAQ for more information on cookies) to authenticate and track both individual and institutional users throughout the system. While browsers that do not support this mechanism may function adequately, technical support in regard to authentication problems will NOT be extended to users who are not running either Netscape Navigator (version 2.0 or higher) or Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 2.0 or higher).

To view full-text PDF versions of articles, as well as PDF versions of issue tables of contents, you must have (a) Adobe Acrobat Exchange, (b) the Adobe Acrobat Reader, (c) the Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plug-in, or (d) another "viewer" that can display or otherwise manipulate PDF files (more details are available from the Online Help page). An Acrobat Tutorial is also available.

To view full-text PostScript versions of articles, you must have a PostScript viewer or any other application that enables you to otherwise manipulate PostScript files [all PostScript delivered via the OJPS is in compressed ("gzipped") format]. More information is available from the Online Help regarding working with compressed PostScript or using GhostScript/Ghostview.

Because ARLO articles may include links to multimedia files, browser plug-ins and/or helper applications may be required in order to view these linked files. Currently, only the following multimedia formats will be accepted in conjunction with ARLO articles:

Video formats: quicktime movies, mpeg movies, or animated gifs
Audio formats: aiff, au, wav, or non-streaming Real Audio

Suggested multimedia plug-ins include: Apple's Quicktime Plug-in and Real Audio's RealPlayer.

The Online Journals have been designed for the following minimum Internet access configuration: 14,400 bps modem. Tips on configuring your browser for slower connections (and to optimize any connection) are available from the Online Help page.

Consult the The Online Journal FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for a compendium of capsulized information about the Online Journal Service.

Read the Online Help thoroughly, especially with regard to using the Acrobat products in conjunction with your browser, and for detailed tutorials on how to search the Online Journal databases.

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