It's a dream come true for clinicians, researchers, and authors: the newly
redesigned journals Web site at<www.psychiatryonline.org>
has fine-tuned the methods readers can use to access Psychiatric News
and the journals published by APA and American Psychiatric Publishing inc.
(APPI). Moreover, each publication has a redesigned homepage that is more
attractive and easier to
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"In addition to giving our journals Web site a clean new look, we've
improved users' ability to navigate the site," explained Pam Harley,
APPI's e-publishing strategist. "Visitors will find that, whatever
strategy they use to look for what they're after, they'll spend less time and
effort finding the precise—and related—information they
need."
APA members have free access to the American Journal of Psychiatry
and Psychiatric Services once they activate their subscriptions.
Access to Psychiatric News is also free and does not require
activation. The other publications at the site are FOCUS: The Journal of
Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, Academic Psychiatry, Journal of
Neuropsychiatry, Clinical Neurosciences, and Psychosomatics.
In addition to the redesign, APPI recently completed a project to make the
historical archives of almost all of its journals available to subscribers. In
the case of the American Journal of Psychiatry, that means readers
now have access to articles that go back as far as 1844, when the first issue
was published.
The site serves as a valuable portal to other published research as well.
Hyperlinks from cited references to the articles to which they refer allow
readers to move easily through related literature. Links from references to
popular indexing services such as PubMed and CrossRef help researchers locate
cited articles.
In addition, an innovative "link exchange" program with other
leading medical journals hosted by HighWire Press allows limited free access
to single articles cited by the original article. Such access is noted by the"
Free Full Text" links in the references of APPI journals. Links
from articles to other articles on the same topic and by the same lead
investigators are also offered.
A useful tool for authors is the ability to export article citations to
popular bibliographic management software formats like EndNote and RefWorks.
Such programs allow authors to create a personal database of references and
generate bibliographies in the varied formats required by publishers. Authors
who use these programs to organize their references report that they reduce
errors and minimize article prep time, Harley said.
Visitors can sign up to receive e-mail alerts whenever new content is
published that matches criteria based on the topics, authors, and articles
they want to track. They can also save links to articles and complicated
searches to user-defined folders for future reference.
"The online journals offer a state-of-the-art environment for
discovery and management of journal literature," Harley added."
With our recent redesign, the site is now an even easier-to-use and
far-ranging information portal. I encourage subscribers who haven't done so
already to activate their online access to the journals to which they
subscribe. We think they will like what they find."
The updated Web site can be accessed at<www.psychiatryonline.org>.
Each publication can be accessed by clicking on its cover. ▪