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AIP Journals Officially Launch on Scitation C3
Hosting platform delivers superior functionality to online publications
Melville, NY, March 15, 2010 - The American Institute of Physics (AIP)
announced today the migration of its 12 archival journals to its Scitation C3
next-generation hosting platform. All Scitation publications will migrate to
the C3 platform in the coming months. Central to the implementation is an agile
development environment utilizing a new Mark Logic content server and Polopoly
web content management system. With these systems in place, AIP has infused its
journals with an XML-enabled functionality that few other STM publishers can
match.
"This is a significant milestone for us, as it marks the culmination of many,
many months of work to re-imagine the Scitation platform from the ground up,"
said Paul DeCillis, Director of Online Publishing. "We recognize that today's
researchers have less time to spend per article. In designing the new AIP
journal pages, we broke free from traditional print-based, linear design. The
new websites have significantly reduced discovery and reading time by exposing
content components in the XML."
Key to the new design is a new object browser, allowing subscribers to view all
tables and figures in an article directly from the abstract view, where the
majority of researchers begin their interaction with the article. Other objects
from within the full-article XML, such as the article's acknowledgment section
and an article outline based on the article's section structure, surface on the
page providing quick access to the article's content.
Scitation C3 also features a new, interactive full-article HTML rendering,
including greatly improved visual presentation of inline math. In-context links
to actionable references, figures, and tables save researchers from wasting
time navigating around the document. Other interactive features include the
ability to highlight any term within an article to produce a list of related
content.
To further facilitate fast discoverability, AIP journals now allow one to
create "Smart ToCs," enabling the user to tailor the listing to his/her
interests, harvest citations, preview abstracts with a mouse click, and hide
content that isn't relevant. AIP has also added greater utility to the search
functions of its journal pages, with more options and better controls to
explore returned content with faceted results, based on article type, topic,
author, keyword, PACS, journal, and publication year. Faceted search helps
researchers find information quickly by presenting them with a set of "filters"
to refine search results.
AIP has also added greater utility to the search functions of its journal
pages, with more options and better controls to explore returned content with
faceted results based on article type, topic, author, keyword, PACS, journal,
and publication year. Faceted search helps to refine search results and
therefore find information more quickly.
AIP's Scitation publishing platform hosts 2,000,000 articles from more than 200
scholarly publications for 28 learned society publishers, in fields including
physics, chemistry, geosciences, engineering, acoustics, and other sciences.
Scitation's evolving, next generation platform, C3, represents today's
best-of-breed technology, with an XML foundation and flexible framework for
multi-channel distribution of content and services that enables both publishers
and end users to manipulate and deliver content as never before and creates the
tools and environment for content producers to position themselves for future
publishing opportunities.
For more information, contact:
Paul DeCillis
Director, Online Publishing
Phone: (516) 576-2665
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