Welcome to The Physics Teacher Online (TPTO)!
TPTO is a full-featured electronic journal (in addition to print) and
provides access to the following:
Back issues featuring HTML Tables of Contents, Abstracts, and the full text of every article
(in PDF and PostScript formats) back to 1963 (Vols. 1-44).
Beginning with the January 2003 issue (Vol. 41, No. 1), the journal also features HTML abstracts
with hyperlinked reference sections, as well as links to editorially related articles (i.e., links between
an erratum and the original article) and a list of citing articles (links to articles that cite the article
being viewed).
Also beginning with the January 2003 issue, the full text of every article will be available in four
flavors: PDF (fully bookmarked, threaded, and thumbnailed), PostScript, HTML, and sectioned HTML (the HTML
articles come complete with inline equations, tables, and figures, as well as linked references).
Three fully searchable databases: one covering the journal from 1963-present, one to search only
the latest issue of the journal, and another to search across all issues with full text available online in
PDF and PostScript formats (Vols. 1-present).
Access & Subscriptions
A subscription is required to access "premium" TPTO features (full text,
abstracts with references and other links, and the current- and all-issue databases). Non-subscribers have
access to the 1963-present abstracts database, tables of contents, and abstracts (without links),
and have the ability to purchase PDF versions of articles (1963-present) via the
Scitation DocumentStore.
Special Features
Access to the current issue's featured articles as well as solutions to Physics Challenges for Teachers and
Students from the preceding issue is always free (see the entry page for links to the current featured articles,
Challenges solutions, and archives of both). TPTO also posts the cover of the current issue (see the entry page)
and maintains an archive of cover images (click on "Cover Collection" at left).
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