The Virtual Journals in the Physical Sciences series has been jointly developed by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society. Each Virtual Journal presents an online collection of relevant papers from a broad range of source journals in the physical sciences. Participating source journals include all journals published by APS and AIP, as well as a significant number of journals from other participating publishers, both on AIP's Scitation platform and on other platforms. From the user's perspective, the Virtual Journals look and feel like "real" journals, providing useful features such as tables of contents, freely available abstracts, links to source journal home pages, abstracts, and full-text articles, ability to search the journals, email alerts and RSS feeds. Subscribers to the source journal will be able to seamlessly access the full-text articles, while non-subscribers will have the option to purchase articles for immediate online purchase. Subscribers also have the ability to search across all issues of the Virtual Journals.

Papers from two more scholarly journals, EPL and Physics-Uspekhi are now included in the virtual journals.