期刊大量上网和专门期刊网点的建立，为利用网络查找科技论文投稿期刊的有关背景材料提供了条件。其中世界出版商(http://www.lights.com/publisher/)网点提供了包括中国在内的国家或地区以及一些国际性的或跨国的出版机构的期刊情况。世界出版商提供期刊的信息很详细，能获取作者须知和Email地址，能查阅最近一期以及该刊历年发表文章的摘要。国内期刊可利用BAIDU(http://www.baidu.com)等搜索引擎直接按期刊名查找有关稿期刊的有关背景材料。世界出版商网点提供的资料类型如下： Materials Letters An interdisciplinary journal affiliated with the Materials Research Society and the Materials Soci-ety - Japan, devoted to the rapid publication of short communications on the science, applications and processing of materials。 Aims and scop Editorial Board Principal Editors: J.H. Wernick, Bell Laboratories, 700 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636, USA and A.F.W. Willoughby, Engineering Materials, The University, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK Founding Editor: F.F.Y. Wang Corresponding Editors: H. Gleiter, Karlsruhe Materials Updates Editor: J.H. Wernick, Murray Hill, NJ, USA Associate Editorial Board: M. Doyama, Tokyo, Japan Instructions to Authors Submission of papers Types of contributions Manuscript preparation Keywords References. Illustrations Electronic manuscripts Author benefits：No page charges。
