Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science ( IOVS ) is an online journal published by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).
5-679: The journal was established as an official publication of the Association for Research in Ophthalmology (later renamed the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology). The first issue of Investigative Ophthalmology was published in January 1962, with Bernard Becker , MD, as the Executive Editor. The title was changed to Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science in 1977. Abstracts from
10-580: Is freely available to read, and content published 2016-onward is freely available for reuse under either the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license or Creative Commons Attribution license. Bernard Becker Bernard Becker (August 21, 1920 – August 28, 2013) was an American professor emeritus of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis . He
15-643: The ARVO Annual Meeting have been published as an issue of IOVS since 1977. Also in 1977, IOVS was accepted for inclusion in Index Medicus (and later in MEDLINE ) and PubMed . IOVS was first published online in 1999, with scanned back content being made available online in 2005. The last print issue was published in 2009, and the journal is now published online only. In January 2016, IOVS ended its subscription program and became open access. All content
20-603: The Bernard Becker Professorship (presently held by Dr. Timothy McBride). After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1944, he joined the United States Army during World War II and served as a military psychiatrist . Just a week after his 93rd birthday, Dr. Becker died from lung cancer at his home in the Central West End , St. Louis on August 28, 2013. This biographical article related to
25-545: Was born in New York City. Becker was internationally honored as an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma and active in teaching and research. For more than 35 years, he led Washington University's department of ophthalmology. In 1978, students, patients, and colleagues raised funds in his honor, which now endow two faculty positions: the Bernard and Janet Becker Professorship (presently held by Dr. Shiming Chen) and
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