Online optometry journals collection

There are more than 100 titles in our collection of national and international optical journals:

  • Printed journals  - can be ordered by emailing library@college-optometrists.org, by phoning 020 7766 5358 or in person. You can also ask for a photocopy of an article to emailed or posted to you.  
  • Online journals  - items marked with an asterisk (*) require you to have a College OpenAthens account in order to access them. Members can request an OpenAthens user name and password by emailing library@college-optometrists.org

Acta Ophthalmologica*
Known as Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica 1995 - 2007

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica*
Preceded and continued by Acta Ophthalmologica

  • Print holdings: 1995 - 2007
  • Electronic holdings: see Acta Ophthalmologica

Acuity

American Journal of Ophthalmology*

American Journal of Optometry*
Preceded by: Northwest Journal of Optometry
Continued as: American Journal of Optometry & Archives of American Academy of Optometry

American Journal of Optometry & Archives of American Academy of Optometry*
Preceded by: American Journal of Optometry
Continued as: American Journal of Optometry & Physiological Optics

American Journal of Optometry & Physiological Optics*
Preceded by: American Journal of Optometry & Archives of American Academy of Optometry
Continued as: Optometry & Vision Science

American Journal of Physiological Optics

  • Print holdings: 1920 - 1926

American Orthoptic Journal
Continued as: Journal of Binocular Vision and Ocular Motility

Annals of Ophthalmology
Preceded by: Glaucoma

  • Print holdings: 1994 -2009

AOP News

  • Print holdings: 1948 - 1960
     

Australian Journal of Optometry
Continued as: Clinical and Experimental Optometry

  • Print holdings: 1957 - 1985

British and Irish Orthoptic Journal 

British College of Optometrists Newsletter

  • Print holdings: 1981 - 2017

British Journal of Ophthalmology*

British Journal of Optometry & Dispensing

  • Print holdings: 1993 - 2000

British Journal of Physiological Optics
Known as: Dioptric Review and British Journal of Physiological Optics 1940 - 1941
Continued as:  Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics

  • Print holdings: 1925 - 1939 (old series), 1950 - 1953, 1954 - 1980 (new series)

British Journal of Visual Impairment*

British Medical Journal (BMJ)*

British Orthoptic Journal

  • Print holdings: 1939 - 1985, 1994 - 1995 (not published 1940-43, 1946)

Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society

  • Print holdings: 2001 -

Canadian Journal of Optometry

  • Print holdings: 1953 - 1998

CLAO Journal*
Preceded by: Contact & Intraocular Lens Medical Journal
Continued as: Eye & Contact Lens

Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology*

Clinical & Experimental Optometry*
Preceded by: Australian Journal of Optometry

Clinical Eye & Vision Care
Ceased publication

  • Print holdings: 1991 - 2000

Clinical Vision Sciences
Merged into Vision Research

  • Print holdings: 1988 - 1993

Concilium Ophthalmologicum
(International Congress of Ophthalmology, Proceedings)

  • Print holdings: 1929, 1933, 1950, 1954

Contact & Intraocular Lens Medical Journal*
Continued as: CLAO Journal

Contact Lens
Continued as: Contact Lens Journal

  • Print holdings: 1966-1974

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye*
Preceded by: Journal of the British Contact Lens Association

Contact Lens Forum

  • Print holdings: 1986 - 1991

Contact Lens Journal
Preceded by: Contact Lens

  • Print holdings: 1974 - 1993 (incomplete)

Contact Lens Spectrum

Contact Lens Update

  • Print holdings: 1984 - 2000

Contacto

  • Print holdings: 1957 - 1963, 1972 - 1983

Contactologica

  • Print holdings: 1989 - 2000

Cornea*

Current Eye Research

  • Print holdings: 1988 - 1992

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology*

Digest (Journal of the Macular Disease Society)

  • Print holdings: 2005 - 2010 and 2015

Dioptric Bulletin
Preceded by: Dioptric Review
Continued as: Dioptric Review

  • Print holdings: 1910 - 1913, 1919 - 1929

Dioptric News
Continued as: Ophthalmic Optician

  • Print holdings: 1954 - 1960

Dioptric Review
Known as: Dioptric Bulletin 1910 - 1928
Continued as: Dioptric Review and British Journal of Physiological Optics

  • Print holdings: 1896 - 1909, 1930 - 1939

Dioptric Review & British Journal of Physiological Optics
Preceded by: Dioptric Review
Continued as: British Journal of Physiological Optics

  • Print holdings: 1940 - 1949

Dioptric Review & News

  • Print holdings: 1930 - 1939

Dispensing Optics

  • Print holdings: 1986 -

Documenta Ophthalmologica*

  • Print holdings: 1938, 1948 - 1999, 2008 - 2011

European Council of Optometry & Optics Newsletter

  • Print holdings: June 1996

Eye*

Eye & Contact Lens*
Preceded by: CLAO Journal

Eye News

  • Print holdings: 2008-

No journals available in this category.

Gaceta Optometria

  • Print holdings: Current Year

Glaucoma
Continued as: Annals of Ophthalmology

  • Print holdings: 1990 - 1994

Hindsight: Newsletter of the Optometric Historical Society 
Preceded by Newsletter of the Optometric Historical Society 
Continued as Hindsight: Journal of Optometry History

Hindsight: Journal of Optometry History
Preceded by Hindsight: Newsletter of the Optometric Historical Society

In Focus (College of Optometrists Newsletter)

  • Print holdings: 1996 -

Institute Journal (Journal of the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians)

  • Print holdings: 1912 - 1923

International Contact Lens Clinic
Also titled International Eye Care 1985-6

  • Print holdings: 1974 - 1985, 1987-1996, 1999-2000

International Eye Care
Preceded by: International Contact Lens Clinic
Continued as: International Contact Lens Clinic

  • Print holdings: 1985 - 1986

International Journal of Ophthalmic Practice*
Ceased publication March 2015

International Ophthalmology Clinics*

Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science (IOVS)

Irish Optician

  • Print holdings: 1994 - 2000

JAMA Ophthalmology*
Preceded by: Archives of Ophthalmology

  • Print holdings: 2013 - 2015

Journal of AAPOS*

Journal of Behavioural Optometry

  • Print holdings: 1990-2000

Journal of Binocular Vision and Ocular Motility
Preceded by: American Orthopotic Journal

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery*

Journal of Glaucoma*

Journal of Optometric Education
Continued as: Optometric Education

  • Print holdings: 1983 - Summer 1991

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Journal of the American Optometric Association
Continued as: Optometry

  • Print holdings: 1954 - 1997
  • 1971, and 1998-2001 missing

Journal of the British Contact Lens Association
Continued as: Contact Lens & Anterior Eye

  • Print holdings: 1978 - 1996 (incomplete)

Journal of the Institute of Optical Science

  • Print holdings: 1952 - 1962

Journal of the National Association of Opticians

  • Print holdings: 1952 - 1957

No journals currently available in this category.

No journals currently available in this category.

No journals currently available in this category.

National Optical Journal

  • Print holdings: 1934 - 1941 & 1948 - 1951

Newsletter of the Optometric Historical Society 
Continued as Hindsight: Newsletter of the Optometric Historical Society 

  • Print holdings: 1970 - 1999

Northwest Journal of Optometry*
Continued as: American Journal of Optometry

The Ocular Surface

Oculus

  • Print holdings: 2014 only

Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics (OPO)
Preceded by: British Journal of Physiological Optics

Ophthalmic Antiques International Collectors Club Newsletter

  • Print holdings: 1983 -

Ophthalmic Optician, The
Preceded by: Dioptric News
Continued as: Optometry Today

  • Print holdings: 1961 - 1984

Ophthalmologica

  • Print holdings: 1975 - 1980

Ophthalmology*

Ophthalmoscope, The

  • Print holdings: 1906 - 1916

Optical Journal

  • Print holdings: 1898 - 1904, 1909-1910

Optical Management

  • Print holdings: 1984 - 1987 & 1990 - 1991

Optical World

  • Print holdings: 1986 - 1999, 2010-2014

Optician, The

  • Print holdings: 1891 -

Optics (Scotland)

  • Print holdings: 1959 - 1969 & 1971 - 1975

Optometric Education
Preceded by: Journal of Optometric Education

  • Fall 1991 - 2003

Optometry*
(ceased publication)
Preceded by: Journal of the American Optometric Association

Optometry & Vision Science*
Preceded by: American Journal of Optometry & Physiological Optics

Optometry in Practice (OIP)

Optometry Today
Note Dec 2015: all online content not available following development of a new website. Content is being gradually transferred, but much of it will only be available to subscribers or AOP members
Preceded by: Ophthalmic Optician

  • Print holdings: 1985 -

Proceedings of the Optical Convention

  • Print holdings: 1905, 1912, 1926

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research*

No journals currently available in this category. 

RADHARC (Ireland)

  • Print holdings: 1957 - 1986

Refractionist, The

  • Print holdings: 1924 - 1941

Review of Optometry

Scottish Ophthalmic Practitioner

  • Print holdings: 1976 - 1987

Scottish Optician

  • Print holdings: 1968 - 1975

Scottish Optometrist

  • Print holdings 1988 - 1989

Survey of Ophthalmology*

Therapuetic Advances in Ophthalmology

Transactions of the Ophthalmological Societies of the UK

  • Print holdings: 1881 - 1986

Transactions of the Optical Society

  • Print holdings: 1900 - 1932

Twenty - Twenty Europe (20/20 Europe)

  • Print holdings: 1997

No journals currently available in this category.

Vision (Association of Optical Practitioners)

  • Print holdings: 1947 - 1964

Vision Research*

Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers Newsletter

  • Print holdings: 1980 -

No journals currently available in this category.

No journals currently available in this category.

No journals currently available in this category.