Special Features of Publishers’ Web Sites

Objectives

• Review standard features via Elsevier website

• Identify special features in the websites of the following publishers

• John Wiley, Springer, Oxford University Press/Highwire, Lippincott, and Nature Publishing Group

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

Elsevier Main Publications Page

Log in box for Personalised services:Not available to AGORA

Users in Elsevier.

Search or browse journals, booksAbstracts: refine search by author,Volume, issue and page numbers.

Browse by Title or Subject

To use personalised Links and actions

You must be registeredWith the publisher:

Note not available forAGORA users

Elsevier Journal Level PageSearch facility may allow you

to search in all journals or just this one

Title; publication info; thumbnail of cover

Articles in press

available in advance

Special services such as e-mail alerts and

add to Favorites lists of Commonly used journals

and articles NOT AVAILABLE to AGORA users

Further information about the journal,

such as subscriptions and pricing info,

article submission guidelines, editorial board

lists, advertising rates, customer service

or feedback links, and information on

the journal’s purpose, is often available

Elsevier Table of Contents Level Page

Ability to mark or highlight records for later viewing or viewing as a group, downloading, emailing,

printing (Display Checked Docs in Elsevier)

List of volumesavailable

Article and author information

Users can choose between viewing

the Abstract (called SummaryPlus here),

full-text PDF or full-text HTML

Elsevier Article Level Page

DOI, or Digital Object Identifier,

is a permanent address

for this article

Related Articles

Additional features such as addition to a Quick links,

emailing to yourself or other users, etc.

John Wiley & Sons/Wiley Interscience

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/

Wiley Main Publications Page

Acronym Finder

is useful if

unsure of citation

Special sections for certain populations

Wiley Continued. . .

Browse by subject category

Advanced search options

Wiley Journal Level Page

Additional features Include requesting a

sample copy, or recommending journal

to your librarian

Personalised featuresNot available toAGORA users

Participates inCrossRef

Only full-text PDF in

some cases and no marking

and downloading citations

Wiley gives DOI and date of

online publication here and

offers links to related Wiley products

Springer-Verlag’s SpringerLink

http://www.springeronline.com/

http://www.springerlink.com/

SpringerLink Main Publications Pages

Browse by subjectCategory or by content Type. Also look up the Featured libraries

Keyword searching also available

Springer also gives alerts, Saved searches,

and search history

Springer Article Level Page

Open full-text article In PDF or export article

Personalised services

Oxford Journals

www.oxfordjournals.org

Oxford Main Publications Page

Use the various searchFacilities available; title, subject

And the alphabetical Listing of the journals

Oxford Journal Level Page

View the current issue or browse The archive for full-text articles

And related journals

Search Page

You can also search within an individual journal title. To search across all publisher titles hosted

at HighWire Press visit www.highwire.org

Nature Publishing Group

www.nature.com

Nature Journal Level Page

RecommendTo your library

feature

Current issue, archive and Press releases

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

http://www.soilsci.com/pt/re/

Lippincott Journal Level Page

Must choose Archive for list of issues or Search

General info including classified ads and

web resources

This title is currently the only one available

from Lippincott through AGORA

Summary

• All publishers’ websites have certain features in common but others that vary by publisher

• Set of standard and special features listed in Publisher Website Chart

Thank you.

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