Online full-text content begins with the July 1999 issue, and will expand with each month's new issue. Abstracts are available online for all issues dating back to January 1975. For issues between October 1965 - December 1974, only Tables of Contents are available.

Each issue will be posted online on the date it is mailed to subscribers, so the online issue may be available days or even weeks ahead of the time you receive your paper copy, especially if you live outside the United States.

The website also provides access to general information about the journal (such as Instructions to Authors, the Editorial Board, and Subscription information), as well as access to other services.

The site is free and available to all users on the Internet until May 7, 2000. Thereafter, access will be by institutional site license, which comes with all institutional subscriptions, personal subscriptions or membership in ARVO. Members will have certain enhanced features available to them.

On your first visit to the site, we encourage you to sign the guestbook. This will take only a minute or two, and will give us helpful information about who the online readers are, and how they are connecting to us. In addition, we would appreciate comments, critiques, questions, or suggestions from you; these can be sent via the feedback button found at the top and bottom of every page on the site. Feedback from readers will help us decide what new features would be most valuable for the site, and how well it is working for its readers.

The site is being produced in conjunction with Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press, which also works with other medical/research journals, such as Science Magazine, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A list of online journals and URLs is available at http://highwire.stanford.edu.