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Featured Online Articles -- Public Access

  • Creator:   Kurt A. Zadnik
  • Updated:   5/23/2023
  • Contains:  12 items
Last updated May 23, 2023PC.

Each month, Optometry & Vision Science features an article that is open to the public immediately. These are the "Featured Articles Online - Public Access" from the past 12 months.

Past Editorials

  • Creator:   Kurt A. Zadnik
  • Updated:   5/23/2023
  • Contains:  11 items
Last updated May 23, 2023PC.

Each month, Optometry & Vision Science features an Editorial from the Editor-in-Chief and often an invited Guest Editorial. These are the Editorials online, open access from the past 12 months.

Past Feature Issues of OVS

  • Creator:   Kurt A. Zadnik
  • Updated:   1/27/2023
  • Contains:  32 items
Last updated January 27, 2023PC.

From 2005 through the present Optometry & Vision Science has created 27 separate Feature issues, each dedicated to a single focus (e.g. Myopia). These issues have a significant impact on the clinical and research field and 12 months from publication we and our publishers make them free and open access to the public at large. Each Feature issue was produced by OVS with a team of world-renowned Guest Editors; OVS regularly produces two feature issues each year on different topics.

Garland W. Clay Award

  • Creator:   Kurt A. Zadnik
  • Updated:   12/16/2021
  • Contains:  39 items
The Garland W. Clay Award was established in 1978 to recognize the authors of the manuscript published in Optometry and Vision Science that has been most widely cited in the world of scientific literature in the preceding five years.

Charles F. Prentice Medal lectures

  • Creator:   Kurt A. Zadnik
  • Updated:   1/27/2023
  • Contains:  12 items
The Charles F. Prentice Medal Award (established in 1958) is awarded annually to a distinguished scientist or clinician scientist in recognition of a career-long record of advancement of knowledge in vision science. The award is considered to be the most prestigious of the Academy’s awards for achievement in research. Updated 1/27/23PC

Glenn A. Fry Award lectures

  • Creator:   Kurt A. Zadnik
  • Updated:   9/18/2019
  • Contains:  10 items
The Glenn A. Fry Lecture Award (established in 1970) is sponsored by the American Optometric Foundation. The award is given annually to a distinguished scientist or clinician scientist in recognition of the quality, significance, impact, and relevance to optometry of his or her current research contributions. The recipient presents a special lecture at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Optometry on his or her current/past research contributions.

Book Reviews

  • Creator:   Kurt A. Zadnik
  • Updated:   8/22/2019
  • Contains:  21 items
Last updated December 1, 2018.

A online open access collection of optometry, ophthalmology and eye/vision science book reviews published by OVS over the past 2 years.

Academy History

  • Creator:   Dr Tony Adams
  • Updated:   2/27/2023
  • Contains:  8 items
An online, open access collection of OVS articles and editorials written by Merton C. Flom, OD, PhD, FAAO on the history of the American Academy of Optometry. Updated 02/27/23PC

Profiles in Discovery

  • Creator:   Dr Tony Adams
  • Updated:   8/22/2019
  • Contains:  6 items
An online, open access OVS collection of articles written by Kenneth A. Polse, OD, MS, FAAO on the history of the American Academy of Optometry.