Posted on behalf of the Electrochemical Society. Please excuse cross-posting.

March 30, 2006 - The Electrochemical Society is pleased to announce the opening
of the ECS Digital Library (ECS DL), the first step toward making all ECS
content available all the time, in one seamless resource.

While the ECS Digital Library is still in development, users can now search
across both peer-reviewed ECS journals, Journal of The Electrochemical Society
(JES) and the rapid-publication Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, as well
as Meeting Abstracts. The journals are the leaders in the field (according to
the ISI Science Citation Index) and the extended Meeting Abstracts gives
scientists a first look into current research.

In addition to robust, cross-publication searching, the ECS Digital Library
(http://ecsdl.org/) offers many useful tools for the researcher. These include
free cross-journal searching, the ability to view individual articles online
before the entire journal is released, extensive links to primary publishers and
databases, the ability to download full bibliographic citations, and a suite of
personalization tools, such as MyArticles, which allows users to collect
important articles, share them with colleagues, and manage multiple
collections.

The Society's newest publication, ECS Transactions (ECST), will be available
through the Digital Library at the end of April. Interface magazine is now
available through the DL and Interface articles will be integrated in the search
function later in 2006. Once the ECS Digital Library is fully operational, the
Society's proceedings volume series (now replaced by ECS Transactions) and
older meeting abstracts content will be searchable, as well. ECS has been
capturing the legacy content of JES going back to the first volume from 1902.
Content will be added to the archives as it becomes available.

ECS plans to add new features to the digital library, such as a History Center
and a Learning Center. The Learning Center will introduce children and college
students to electrochemistry and solid-state science and the fascinating role it
plays in the world today. ECS will also add new features to the current ECS
career center, which now includes as a job board and discussion forum for new
and established scientists. The digital library will also include "rooms"
for each of ECS's notable founders and leaders, and feature photographs,
published work, and other material.

The ECS Digital Library is being built for the Society by the American
Institute of Physics (AIP) and will be hosted on AIP's Scitation platform
(scitation.aip.org). With the ECS Digital Library, ECS has added another
high-quality resource for the broad scientific and technical community that
encompasses electrochemistry and solid-state science and technology.

The Electrochemical Society (ECS) is a 7,000-member organization of scientists
and engineers in more than 75 countries worldwide. The Society has a long
tradition in advancing the theory and practice of electrochemical and solid
state science by dissemination of information through its publications and
international meetings. Visit ECS on the Web at www.electrochem.org.

For further information, contact:

Mary E. Yess
Deputy Executive Director, ECS
mary.yess@electrochem.org