Previous Releases

April 2009

User-led Development

We have made a number of recent improvements for the benefit of all our users, including readers, authors, librarians and account administrators.

• The Library Recommendation Form can now be downloaded and printed via a link Recommend This Journal on a journal homepage.

• We have added a link Accepted Manuscripts on some journal homepages that lets you see the articles accepted for publication.

• It is now possible to add Cambridge Journals’ links with cover image and a brief description of CJO to your Facebook homepage.

• Our Registration Form is now even more user-friendly. Click here to view the benefits of registering. Do not have a CJO account? Click here to register.

• Authors can now automatically receive PDF offprints of their article as soon as it has been published online as First View.

• An Online Consortia Form for Takeover Journals has been created to help Consortia Administrators ensure uninterrupted access to newly acquired journals by Cambridge. Click here to view the form.

• Collection Manager has been improved to deliver more accurate results to librarians and individual subscribers.

• Firefox users can now see the description of CJO in Bookmarks.

• A link About DOI is now displayed next to each doi, leading to the Production FAQ.

Increased Interaction with our Content

A number of new features allow our users to access our content in more advanced ways:

• A Preview link for each article on the Table of Contents and Search Results pages allows you to expand a box and see Abstract, HTML Article Structure, Figures and Tables, and References as separate tabs.

• Some of our journals now highlight articles selected by the editors, available directly from the journal homepage. Click here for an example.

• A Related Articles link can now be found next to some article data in Table of Contents, Abstract and HTML pages.

• Previous titles of journals are now included in brackets next to the current journal title in ‘By Title’ and ‘By Subject’ listings, as well as being included in the Cite Search.

• We have enhanced the navigation within the Search Results: you can now go back to the search results, or go to the next / previous articles in the search results list directly from the Abstract and HTML full-text pages.

December 2008

Press Releases (pdf upload)

• Shibboleth-supported access – download press release here.

• All content KnowledgeWorks certified – download press release here.

• NecPlus now hosted on CJO: http://necplus.eu - download press release here.

The latest release of new features on Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) sees the addition of exciting new functionality that will benefit all users of the site.

User Benefits

• You can now use your email address for login, instead of (or in addition to) the standard username authentication.

• Save images, figures and tables from full-text journal articles. Images include the relevant journal’s branding information, citation information and copyright with the figure or table centred on the page.

• It is now possible to purchase single electronic issues on CJO by clicking the link ‘Add issue to basket’ on a journal homepage or on the issue’s table of contents page.

• Users can also pre-order issues at discounted rates through a special online discount page, accessed via a secure link from a conference registration page.

• All the Open Access articles in a journal can now be viewed by clicking on the Open Access icon on the journal’s homepage.

• You can now search within subject from the journals' homepages through an additional drop-down-menu with a list of subjects.

• Each journal now has its own Widget to search its content and to display the latest articles published online: First View or latest issue.

Author Benefits

• Rightslink permission service: A link for each article is now available for requesting republication permission from Rightslink. For more information, go to: http://www.copyright.com/ccc/viewPage.do?pageCode=pu4-n.

• Automated Content Access Protocol: A non-proprietary, global permissions tool that puts content owners in control of their online content in a way that is conductive to developing new online business models, putting new, high-quality content on the net and maximizing the benefits of the relationship with search engines. For more information, go to: http://www.the-acap.org.

• Export Citation(s) functionality is available on the issue table of contents page. This can now also be done from Abstract and HTML pages.

Libraries and Consortia


• Usage Statistics Alerts: Administrators now benefit from the option of getting an email alert every time the previous month's usage data has become available through the CJO reporting module.

• PDF Branding IP Address: PDF branding with CJO logo, date of download and IP address is now available.

 • Subscription Status Icons: An icon now appears at issue level indicating the users’ subscription status. The order of display priority for icons is: subscription, consortium, pay-per-view, open access, free access, trial access.

 

June 2008

New Features

With the latest release in June 2008, there have been a number of developments including:

Bookmarking

• Social bookmarking services, such as del.icio.us, Connotea and Bibsonomy enable users to save URL links of web pages they want to remember or share. With this latest release, CJO users can now bookmark links from journal homepages and article abstracts. CJO is also fully enabled for users of the CiteULike service.

• CJO now supports RSS feeds via Live Bookmarks for Firefox browsers.

Author Benefits

• In time for this new release “Forthcoming Articles” is to be renamed “First View”. Publishing articles online ahead of print is a major benefit to authors as it enables papers to be cited prior to being placed in an issue, allowing research to be disseminated faster.

• In addition to “First View”, there is now also information on “How to cite this article” on abstracts and HTML full-text pages, available to cut and copy into a paper.

• Zotero can now be used in conjunction with CJO, enabling users to download article citations, or select single articles from an issue.

• For selected journals, an URL direct to an author’s paper is now provided to allow instant access to the article online.

• Most Cited Articles from the CrossRef database and displays the statistics of the last two years as well as overall for a journal is now available on the individual journal’s homepage.

• A Link to this abstract from all Abstract and Full Text HTML pages now reads “A link to the abstract/details of this article.”

• CJO users may save articles of interest in their private library on the CiteULike site and add tags for the benefit of other researchers.

Improved Access and Subscription Options

• Administrators can now add CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) IP addresses.

• There is now a downloadable subscription form as an alternative to the online ordering option.

• Users are able to upgrade pay-per-view purchases to subscriptions within their shopping basket, if they wish.

• A new “Ask your librarian” link is available directly from searches.

• At abstract level access has improved to CJO by allowing users to log in on the abstract page.

• Supplementary Material Access Control, enabling users who have access to the full text of an article, also to have access to supplementary materials connected with that research.

Enhanced Search and Discoverability Features

A number of new search options were developed in this latest release, these include:

• Branded tool bar that can now be downloaded on Internet Explorer to search CJO.

• Automatic matching of a journal title as a user types.

• Context-sensitive spelling correction suggests alternative spellings to words not matched in the initial search.

• Automatically saved searches with re-run and edit facilities.

• In the quick search box, “search all content” allows a search that is not just restricted to journal content, but includes the full CJO website.

• A widget that can be downloaded from the main homepage and used to search the site.

• There is now an option to Browse by Free Content, showing users all their free content available on CJO.

Consortia Graphics

• An icon has been developed indicating access via a consortium.

• Larger size for consortia or organisation logo.

March 2008

Key new developments

Society membership services

We’ve made a number of recent developments for the benefit of our society publishing partners, including:

• The facility for society members to pay for and renew their membership fees.

• The automatic activation of journal subscriptions.

• The facility for society members to register for annual conferences through CJO.

• The ability for society members and administrators to manage account details.

The archive project

We’re currently working on the digitisation of the back archives of over 210 journal titles and some development work has been done to facilitate this, including:

• A new display for browsing back volumes to provide more user-friendly access to a journal’s archive. Click here for an example

• The back end tools to set up a wide and flexible range of access options for our archives.

User-led development

We recently commissioned a usability and accessibility survey of CJO. The findings from this extensive survey have allowed us to make improvements which mean we are now both W3.org AA and Section 508 compliant. These include:

• Improvements to the table of contents pages have simplified the selection of articles and navigation between issues. Click here for an example

• A new utility menu has been created on the CJO home page including: revised Help and FAQ’s, an updated Site Map, and links to our Shopping Basket.

• An improved breadcrumb navigation structure, running throughout the site.

• All new windows opened include full browser functionalities.

Increased interaction with our content

A number of new features allow our users to access our content in more innovative ways:

• An enriched citation export tool allows the export of data to a full range of reference management software, including Biblioscape, EndNote, ProCite and RefWorks.

• The implementation of the COinS metadata standard, allowing easy management of references and bibliographic data.

• Additions and revisions have been made to our search functionality, including the new Cite search and the ability to sort search results by date.

• Collection manager has been improved to enable librarians to download lists of various content types either available or not available to their institution/consortium.

• By clicking the cover images on the journals’ home pages or the link below, you can see a larger image of the cover.

• The opportunity for corporate sponsors to advertise on web pages and email alerts.

• We now have the back-end tools to create bespoke sample issues of key articles.

December 2007

Advancing Research

Increasing Access