Optica Publishing Group's
Digital Archive Products

Optica Publishing Group's Digital Archive products provide you and your patrons with perpetual access to PDFs of groundbreaking optics and photonics research published over the last nearly 105 years.

The Centennial Archive package includes more than 256,000 journal and magazines articles as well as the conference proceedings from more than 670 meetings. In short, it includes the content published by Optica Publishing Group since the inception of its publishing program from 1917 to 2015.

The Digital Archive 1 product includes access to content published between 1917 to 2005 and includes roughly 135,000 articles from Optica Publishing Group's core journals, magazine, and conference proceedings.

The Digital Archive 2 product provides perpetual access to 121,000 journal, magazine and conference proceeding articles published between 2006 and 2015.

The Digital Archive 3 supplements the Digital Archive 1 and 2 products with access to PDFs of more than 54,000 journal articles and conference proceedings from 2016 to 2020.

Optica Publishing Group also offers Individual Journal Archives for some of its journals. You can now purchase perpetual access to the archives of Applied Optics, Optics Letters, the Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A), or the Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B). Purchasing one of more of these Individual Journal Digital Archives ensures access to all of the content in each journal from the first issue through 2006 (Digital Archive 1), from 2007 through 2011 (Digital Archive 2), and —new in 2025— from 2012 through 2016.

This chart provides a detailed view into the contents for the Digital Archive packages and Individual Journal Archives described above: