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AOA members can now quickly and easily access Optometry: Journal of the American Optometric Association online through the AOA Web site (www.aoa.org).

A new Journal of the AOA link – on the navigation bar at the top of the AOA Web site home page – now provides a direct connection to a complete range of features on the independent Optometry: Journal of the American Optometric Association Web site.

When entering by way of the AOA homepage, an AOA member need only enter a member identification number and password to log onto the Optometry site. (Members who have an e-mail address on file with AOA can use that in lieu of a member number.)

There, AOA members can find the current edition of Optometry, past editions (dating back to 2005), and the complete contents of all supplements to the publication. Members can even read new, about-to-be-published articles in a special “Articles in Press” section.

The site provides access to all of Optometry’s peer-reviewed articles on current research in vision problems, eye disease, and other vision abnormalities, as well as regular features including editorial perspectives, book reviews, medical abstracts of research published in other journals, public health notes, industry news, and office management.

All articles can be accessed as either full-text documents or PDFs. Abstracts of each article are also available.

Special Optometry Web site features include links to related research, sign-up for e-mail notices of new editions of Optometry, and access to Science Direct’s Top 25 research articles.

Online access to Optometry has become increasingly popular, according to the AOA Communications & Membership Group.

The new AOA Web site link allows association members to access the journal online with no special registration or identification numbers required.

Until now, all Optometry Web site users – AOA members as well as the journal’s subscribers around the world – have been required to register and receive special identifiers for use exclusively on the site. 

Technically known as a “pass through,” the new link on the AOA homepage provides the Optometry Web site, which is independently maintained by the journal’s publisher, all the data required to allow user access.

Optometry is read each month by more than 30,000 primary eye and vision care practitioners around the globe.
 It is produced by the AOA Communications & Membership Group and is published under contract by Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of scientific journals.