Questions about Subscriptions to Earth Interactions

• Is Earth Interactions free on the Web?
• Can I search Earth Interactions articles or view abstracts even if I don't have a subscription?
• How does the subscription work?
• How do I subscribe to Earth Interactions?
• Will Earth Interactions be available in print form as well as electronically over the Web?
• What if I forget my password?

Questions about viewing Earth Interactions

• I thought Earth Interactions was produced with SGML, but I can view full text as either HTML or PDF?
• Why aren't the extra features, like animations, available from the PDF files?

Questions about submitting articles to Earth Interactions

• What do I do if I want to submit an article to Earth Interactions?
• What if my manuscript does not use animation or other dynamic components, does that mean that it will not be accepted for publication in Earth Interactions?
• The list of acceptable file types in the guidelines to authors seems to leave out several possible forms for animations, etc. Can I submit manuscripts with file types not on your list?
• Are "page charges" assessed to authors who publish in Earth Interactions?
• Can I expect my article to be published faster since this journal does everything electronically?
• Will I get anything comparable to reprints of my article?

General questions about Earth Interactions

• How does an article in Earth Interactions get cited in a reference list?
• Will Earth Interactions be indexed in bibliographic reference sources like Science Citation Index?

Questions about Subscriptions to Earth Interactions

Is Earth Interactions free on the Web?
A subscription is required in order to gain access to the published articles as either an individual or institutional subscriber. For more information on subscriptions, go to the Subscribe pages.

Can I search Earth Interactions articles or view abstracts even if I don't have a subscription?
From the table of contents you may access article abstracts without a subscription. When you try to link to the full text, however, a subscription is required. The full text is searchable through the search engine that is part of the AMS Journals Online site. Searches can be made of the full text even if you do not have a subscription.

How does the subscription work?
Individual subscribers are provided a user name and password that is used to gain access to the journal articles. For institutional subscribers, the IP address of the institution's network is used as a key for the subscription, so anyone on that network will have access from their desktop. If your institution subscribes, when you request the full text it will download to your workstation immediately. If your institution does not have a subscription, you will be

How do I subscribe to Earth Interactions?
For more information on subscriptions, go to the Subscribe pages.

Will Earth Interactions be available in print form as well as electronically over the Web?
No. A driving force behind the creation of this journal as an electronic journal was the desire to free authors of the constraints of the static printed page in the presentation of their research results. Dynamic and interactive components have already appeared as an integral part of articles published in Earth Interactions and this can only happen effectively if authors do not feel the need to also provide printable forms of this material in addition to the dynamic forms.

What if I forget my password?
You need only send an email to to EIinfo@ametsoc.org to have a support person for the journal contact you.

Questions about viewing Earth Interactions

I thought Earth Interactions was produced with SGML, but I can view full text as either HTML or PDF?
Earth Interactions is coded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML), which is an international standard, platform-independent coding of information that supports a wide variety of special characters and forms, including complex mathematics. For the first three and a half years the journal was delivered in SGML and PDF in anticipation of robust SGML viewers on the Web. Those have not yet materialized (though XML is emerging) and the original SGML viewer, Panorama, is no longer well-supported. Therefore, EI has been re-engineered to use an SGML-to-HTML conversion on the fly for Web delivery.

Why aren't the extra features, like animations, available from the PDF files?
The HTML pages are considered the primary delivery of articles in Earth Interactions and this version is the only one that contains the full richness of the articles. The PDF files are provided purely to provide a well-formatted paginated version that can be printed for reading offline. The PDF version therefore has not been coded with links to any of the nonprintable content such as animations or datasets.

Questions about submitting articles to Earth Interactions

What do I do if I want to submit an article to Earth Interactions?
Read through the Earth Interactions Style Guide for Manuscript Submissions which provides essential information on how to create your electronic manuscript and how to submit it electronically to the journal. To submit a manuscript, fo to the Submissions page.

What if my manuscript does not use animation or other dynamic components, does that mean that it will not be accepted for publication in Earth Interactions?
Not at all. While Earth Interactions seeks to provide a means for authors to exploit the electronic medium, any scholarly work in the Earth system sciences will be considered for publication whether it uses these capabilities or not.

The list of acceptable file types in the guidelines to authors seems to leave out several possible forms for animations, etc. Can I submit manuscripts with file types not on your list?
The list of file types being used to deliver graphics and animations over the Web is continually growing ( for example, MPEG-2 has emerged as a replacement of MPEG). We want Earth Interactions to serve the community by being able to deliver research results in the most useful form. Therefore, authors should feel free to submit manuscripts that include content taking advantage of newly emerging standards. Our only constraint on this is that Web-capable viewers for the files must exist as freely available software for the spectrum of platforms being used by the readers. (MPEG-2, for example, has only recently met this threshold.)

Are "page charges" assessed to authors who publish in Earth Interactions?
There will be, but author charges are currently being waived.

Can I expect my article to be published faster since this journal does everything electronically?
In principle, yes, but there are qualifiers to this answer. Since Earth Interactions is peer-reviewed to the same standards as high quality print journals, the author can expect a review/revision cycle similar to that experienced with print journals. Thus, while the editors try to keep the review process as speedy as possible, the time from submission to acceptance of an article may be very similar to that of print journals. After an article is accepted, the production process can generally run much faster than typical of print journals, with articles being posted within about two months after acceptance.

Will I get anything comparable to reprints of my article?
No. Authors, including all co-authors, will be provided complimentary subscriptions to Earth Interactions for the volume year their article is published.

General questions about Earth Interactions

How does an article in Earth Interactions get cited in a reference list?
Each journal publisher controls the way references are formatted in their journal, but the reference will look like a standard journal citation in most respects. For example, in an AMS print journal, a reference to an Earth Interactions article would look like:

Note that the paper number (1-004) replaces the page range of a standard print journal article.

Will Earth Interactions be indexed in bibliographic reference sources like Science Citation Index?
Articles from Earth Interactions will be included in the AMS's Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts and AGU's EASI Index. Other index publishers require a period of evaluation prior to including a new journal in their publication. Earth Interactions is covered by Chemical Abstracts. We are hopeful that articles from Earth Interactions will be included in ISI and other scientific indexes soon.

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