JACPOC Online Library Expands

The Association of Children's Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics (ACPOC) has announced the expansion of its online library at www.acpoc.org

The Journal of the Association of Children's Prosthetic and Orthotic Clinics (JACPOC), known in earlier years as the Inter Clinic Information Bulletin (ICIB), was published in 28 volumes from 1961 through 1994. These journals were difficult to find until 2000, when volumes 19-28 were made available online through the work of oandp.com. The online library expansion has unlocked the valuable information stored in earlier volumes, said Jon Shinn, technical director for the Digital Resource Foundation for the O&P Community (DRFOP).

The nonprofit foundation partners with oandp.com to expand the availability and accessibility of research information through its Virtual Library project. The DRFOP has thus far digitized an additional three volumes of the JACPOC/ICIB, spanning six years and increasing the size of the online library by more than 50 percent. Work on this project is continuing, and additional volumes will be made available in the near future, Shinn said.

The JACPOC online library is housed at the ACPOC website (www.acpoc.org), and is searchable from there as well as from the DRFOP website (www.drfop.org) and from oandp.com, Shinn explained. He added that the DRFOP has taken careful measures when formatting the online documents to also ensure that they will be indexed by Internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

For more information about the JACPOC Online Library or other Digital Resource Foundation projects, contact Shinn at 352.331.3741 x16 or jon@drfop.org