Many thanks to Eric Hellman for his favourable comments below. The features
he mentions are provided for us by our web hosts, Portland Press, and are
shared by many of the journals of other publishers they provide the same
services for - see http://www.portlandpress.com/ejournals.htm. Credit where
its's due!
These journals are published by the Biochemical Society, Society for
Endocrinology, Society for Reproduction and Fertility and the International
Water Association. A good example of not-for-profit learned societies
collaborating!
Steve Byford
Publications Manager
Society for Endocrinology
& BioScientifica Ltd
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hellman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 March 2002 19:23
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: E-journal search features
I'd like to commend The Society for Endocrinology for the intelligent
organization of its on-line journals.
For example if you want the paper on page 175 of volume 26 of Journal
of Molecular Endocrinology, you go to
http://journals.endocrinology.org/jme/026/jme0260175.htm
if you want the table of contents for issue 3, you go to
http://journals.endocrinology.org/jme/026/3/default.htm
This sort of organization allows a variety of access methods- some
libraries might want to "check in" issues into an opac using thes
links; others might want to calculate links for their users, as I
alluded to in my last post. Researchers can find the articles in a
search engine like google, because the title pages are exposed to
robots.
The URL's are technology-neutral; in other words, they're not tied to
an underlying technology platform and needn't change as technology
evolves, and they use bibliographic terms that are familiar to users
and librarians.
Look under the hood a bit, and you'll see that the html papers have
Dublin-Core META tags. And the HTML is free from parse errors (not
very common, to tell the truth).
I hope that the Endocrinology community is giving these well-done
e-journals the support they deserve!
Eric
At 12:33 PM +0000 3/1/02, Steve Byford wrote:
>As a small learned society publisher which is therefore close to its
readers
>and authors, this is something we have always regarded as important. Our
>e-journals (http://journals.endocrinology.org/) have exactly this feature
on
>their search engine (http://journals.endocrinology.org/search/search.asp),
>and the lists of issues for browsing (e.g.
>http://journals.endocrinology.org/JOE/joe.htm) include the page ranges for
>the issue, to enable readers to locate a known reference as quickly as
>possible.
>
>A number of other learned society publishers offer similar facilities.
>
>Steve Byford
>Publications Manager
>Society for Endocrinology
>& BioScientifica Ltd
>Tel: +44 (0) 1454 642220
>Fax: +44 (0) 1454 642222 or 642201
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>Endocrinology on the web:
>FULL-TEXT ONLINE JOURNALS
>http://www.endocrinology.org
>
>European Journal of Endocrinology ONLINE
>via http://www.bioscientifica.com
>
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