Help topic: Home page

The homepage is your central source of updated information on Cambridge Journals Online. You can easily return to this page from anywhere in the site by clicking the 'Cambridge Journals Online' logo on the top left-hand side of the page or the 'Home' link that always appears at the beginning of the navigational 'breadcrumb trail'.

The home page is divided into three columns.

Left-hand navigation panel

This navigation panel appears on all pages of Cambridge Journals Online, always on the left-hand side of the page.

Register now/log in

To take advantage of all the personalisation features of Cambridge Journals Online, and to get access to the Account Administrator's menu if you are your organisation's Account Administrator, you need to register and be logged in. To register for the first time, click 'Register now' and follow the instructions. If you have already registered, log in using your Cambridge Journals Online username or email address and password or your Athens or Shibboleth log in (see related Help topics for more information). If you have forgotten your password, click 'Forgot my password' and choose to receive either your password reminder or a temporary username and password that will allow you to re-set your registration details.

Browse journals

Use these links to browse Cambridge Journals in a variety of ways:

- 'By Title'

- 'By Subject'

- 'Subscribed To' ie those journals whose contents you have access to because either your library suscribes or you have a personal subscription.

- 'Free Content' ie those journals, volumes, issues or articles that are available free of charge on Cambridge Journals Online.

- 'Collection Manager' is a feature that allows you to search for and download bibliographic information about Cambridge Journals.

- RSS/Atom feeds are syndication formats for Cambridge Journals content.

- 'Favourites' will appear in this menu if you are registered and have logged in. This feature allows you to go straight to the content you are most interested in.

Please refer to related Help topics for more information on these different options.

My Cambridge Journals Online

These links are only available to registered users of Cambridge Journals Online who have logged in. They allow registered users to customise Cambridge Journals Online, to buy pay-per-view articles; view saved articles, bookmarks and searches; change their registration details: and configure content alert settings, favourite journals and subjects. Activation of individual subscriptions and society subscriptions can also be done here. Please refer to related topics for more information.

Account Administrator

These links are only available to Account Administrators. Account Administrators can configure IPs, manage remote users, activate organisational subscriptions and view all details of their subscriptions, create URL resolvers, update their organisation's information, view usage statistics, receive expiry alerts and use the online print issue claim form. Please refer to related topics for more information on these different sections.

Central messages panel

Resources for users

At the top of this section, links are provided to resources that have been specially developed for different types of user: authors, societies, librarians, individual users and agents. The 'New Features' link gives you an overview of all the latest features on Cambridge Journals Online.

News and announcements

This is located in the middle of the page and contains up-to-date news from Cambridge Journals.

Advertising and corporate sales

Click here if you are interested in advertising in any of Cambridge's journals or in ordering commercial reprints.

For subscription agents

This page provides specialist information for subscription agents, including an up-to-date price list.

Right-hand messages panel

Organisation messages

This panel will only appear if you are recognised as belonging to an organisation. It is located in the right-hand column of the page and contains information from your organisation.

Marketing message and banners

This is where Cambridge posts messages with a variety of special offers and announcements. Banners will be used for marketing promotions and campaigns.

Search panel

Quick Search

This is located on the upper right-hand side of the page and appears on all pages of Cambridge Journals Online. Entering a keyword and clicking 'Search' will display results based on that specific keyword criteria.

Cite Search

If you know some or all of the citation details of the content you are looking for, use Cite Search to take you straight to it.

Or you can use the Advanced and CrossRef search facilities. Please refer to related Help topics for more information on all of these different features.