Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS) is an online journal published by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). History 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 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 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. Editors 1962–1972: Bernard Becker 1973–1977: Herbert E. Kaufman 1978–1982: Alan M. Laties 1983–1987: Steven M. Podos 1988–1992: J. Terry Ernest 1993–1997: Harry A. Quigley 1998–2002: Gerald J. Chader 2003–2007: Robert N. Frank 2008–2012: Paul L. Kaufman 2013–2015: David C. Beebe 2015–2017: Thomas Yorio 2017-2022: Donald C. Hood 2023-2027: Joseph Carroll See also Journal of Vision References External links IOVS - Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science ARVO - Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Ophthalmology journals Publications established in 1976 Monthly journals English-language journals Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of the United States Online-only journals