News and Information

Here are recent announcements about OSA Publications. Check regularly for special issue announcements, new editors, updated pricing, new journal features, and more.

Optics Express Selected to be Indexed in MEDLINE

Optics Express will join Applied Optics, JOSA A and Optics Letters as the fourth OSA journal to be indexed in the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE bibliographic database.

Announcement to the world-wide optics community

The OSA Board of Editors welcomes nominations for the following editor position:

Editor in Chief, Applied Optics
Term to begin January 1, 2009 and end December 31, 2011 (Find out more…)

OSA journals are now accepting submissions to the following special issues:

JOSA B
Slow Light and Its Applications
Editors: Robert W. Boyd, Lene Hau, and Hailin Wang
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2008
To be published: December 2008

Applied Optics
Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Editors: Jagdish P. Singh, Madhavi Z. Martin, and Andrzej W. Miziolek
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2008
To be published: November 2008

Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging
Editors: Michael Eismann, John Kerekes, Bob Leathers, and Alan Schaum
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2008
To be published: October 2008

Journal of Optical Networking
Optical Routers
Editors: Keren Bergman, Madeleine Glick, and S. J. Ben Yoo
Submission deadline: June 1, 2008

Thank you for Reviewers

The OSA Publications Department would like to thank the countless reviewers that have assisted in the peer review process for our journals.  Without your help OSA would not be one of the premiere venues for the dissemination of the latest research in Optics and Photonics.

New Editors

The OSA Publications Department would like to welcome three new Editors.  Dr. Alan Willner of the University of Southern California has recently become the Editor of Optics Letters, Dr. Keren Bergman of Columbia University is now the Editor of the Journal of Optical Networking, and Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian of the University of Arizona has taken the reins of the Lasers, Photonics, & Environmental Optics Division of Applied Optics.  We are grateful for their efforts, and would like to thank outgoing editors Anthony Campillo, Richard Linke, and T. Y. Fan for their years of service to the Optics community.

Journal of Lightwave Technology Change

A recent change will affect the print production of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, co-published with IEEE. As of January 2008 we will be printing only six issues per year (every other month), and no longer printing monthly issues.  However, JLT will still be published monthly on-line.

Issue dates will be: Jan, Mar, May, July, Sept, Nov.

Announcements

• OSA is a Portico participant- the agreement has been signed, and now we are just working on the details.
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Optics InfoBase: New Content

Optics InfoBase is growing and now includes Applied Spectroscopy co-published with the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

Chinese Optics Letters was added this year as well as the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics.

At long last select OSA conference papers are now included in Optics InfoBase. Here you will find content that previously has not been readily accessible.

2008 Subscriptions

See our 2008 price list.

Early Posting

OSA publishes accepted articles for JOSA A, JOSA B, Optics Letters, and Applied Optics to an Early Posting page as soon as they have been cleared for production. This page is free to the general public. Early Posting articles are presented in their manuscript format as supplied by the author, and they are removed from the page once the final version has been published in an issue.

The articles are grouped according to month of acceptance and the following information is displayed: article title, listing of authors, dates manuscript received and accepted, link to full-text PDF, and author-selected OCIS codes. If you have any questions please review the information in the Early Posting FAQ page, or contact OSA Staff.

2006 ISI Rankings for OSA Journals

Optics Express and Optics Letters are the top two optics journals in ISI's Journal Citation Reports 2006 journal rankings by impact factor, at no. 1 and no. 2, respectively. JLT is also ranked among the top ten at no. 6.

* The Journal Citation Report includes the OSA Journals in the category "Optics;" there are 55 total journals in that category for 2006. J. Lightwave Technolgy (JLT) is also included in the "Engineering, Electrical & Electronic" category with 206 total journals. Its 2006 rankings in that category are #7 of 206 by impact factor and #6 of 206 by Total Cites.