The AMS is pleased to announce that all of its journals and the Bulletin articles will be going online starting in January 1998. At its launch, the full 1997 volume year will be available online, and the 1998 issues will be added as they are produced. The full text of Bulletin articles will be available to all users of the site, while full text of journal articles will be available only to subscribers of that journal online.
Full text is available to subscribers in two forms.
The first takes full advantage of the SGML files of the article by delivering the text and figures as an HTML document that is easy to read on the screen using the subscriber's standard Web browser and includes internal hyperlinks to aid navigation. The article will also be available as Adobe Acrobat PDF page images that can be viewed and printed using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. The PDF version is not as easy to read on the screen as the HTML full text but allows users to view or print a precise replica of the article pages as they appeared in the print journal. For the Bulletin , which is not composed using SGML, only the PDF version of the article will be available. A pilot site for the journals online is currently available and members are encouraged to access this pilot site so that they can provide feedback on this initiative as its development continues.