New Article Interface
A way of viewing journal articles in tabs.
Journal articles often run several screens long when viewed online, requiring readers to scroll up and down to view different parts of the article.
By dividing the article content across tabs, it may be easier to navigate.
If you have other thoughts or suggestions related to this idea, please e-mail them to beta@nejm.org.
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07/18/2009
| md |
| Pros: it provides easier article reviewing |
| Cons: a bit slower loading than old-fashioned, at least on my Vista :( |
| Reviewer: Anonymous Professional Specialty: Unspecified Place of Work or Study: Unspecified |
07/12/2009
 More tabs please... |
| Pros: The tabs saves time and adds useful links to reader such as articles that cite the article and the correspondence. |
| Cons: The lack of usefulness of only two tabs - abstract and article. The subsections of the article needs to be separated in individual tabs. |
| Reviewer: Robson Alberto Professional Specialty: Emergency Medicine Place of Work or Study: Non-Profit Organization |
06/04/2009
 Tab limitations |
| Pros: Here a new tabbed interface is provided to the journal article, in which different parts of the article can be selected using tabs, thereby attempting to break away from the traditional linear narrative. |
| Cons: Disappointingly, these tabs are presently limited to ‘Abstract’, ‘Article’ and ‘References’, with no breakdown of the article into Introduction, Methods, Results, etc., and these tabs scroll out of sight when reading down the page. |
| Other thoughts: The equivalent sectional functionality provided by the non-scrolling link set at the top of the enhanced PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases article (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000228.x001), described by Shotton et al. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000361), provides much better functionality, in terms of having higher granularity and being non-scrolling, while occupying less screen real-estate. |
| Reviewer: Dr David Shotton, University of Oxford Professional Specialty: Other Place of Work or Study: Other |
11/08/2008
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| Reviewer: imatinib for chronic myeloid leukemia Professional Specialty: Hematology/Oncology Place of Work or Study: Research Facility |
10/26/2008
| Much Better Reference Access |
| Pros: The pop-ups for footnotes/references alone makes this system an improvement. The present system requires jumping up and down the screen to view references. |
| Cons: I'm not sure how well this would work on mobile devices. |
| Other thoughts: What about a tab for "Related Articles" (ie. editorials)? |
| Reviewer: S.Kirk, MD Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group) |
10/01/2008
| New interface |
| Pros: Fine in computers |
| Cons: Very bad in my iPod |
| Other thoughts: Look for an interface to iPods |
| Reviewer: Ernesto Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine Place of Work or Study: Medical School Program |
08/26/2008
| excellent job |
| Pros: simple idea makes a great tool, really groundbreaking in the scientific literature |
| Cons: in the summaries, the audio is clearly not tailored on the slides. It would be great to have slides illustrated by a pointer focusing on the message of the slide. |
| Other thoughts: it would be nice to have for the i-phone, but I am not sure the i-phone has the proper flash features yet |
| Reviewer: Roberto Testi Professional Specialty: Allergy/Immunology Place of Work or Study: Medical School Program |
08/21/2008
| gg |
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| Reviewer: Anonymous Professional Specialty: Unspecified Place of Work or Study: Unspecified |
08/18/2008
| New Article Interface |
| Pros: In an ideal world would be great but... |
| Cons: normally we don't have enough time to read a paragraph, it's better to have a menu and choose the abstract to read. |
| Other thoughts: and also it occupies a lot of space in a screen that is supposed to show lot of information in 1-click |
| Reviewer: Silvana Novelli Professional Specialty: Hematology/Oncology Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community |
06/18/2008
| Improvement |
| Pros: Easier to navigate fast between sections. Less scrolling. |
| Cons: |
| Other thoughts: Pictures "full size" should be a tab. This design has been used for PDA programs - and that is a great feature. Scrolling is easier on computers, but i think most would appreciate this possibility |
| Reviewer: Anonymous Professional Specialty: Unspecified Place of Work or Study: Other |
06/15/2008
| New Article Interface |
| Pros: much easier way to navigate through the information |
| Cons: |
| Other thoughts: I suggest the article itself have tabs for each section, methods, results, discussion, etc. |
| Reviewer: J. McMillan MD Professional Specialty: Women’s Health Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group) |
04/28/2008
| Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Incidence of Cardiovascular Events in Women |
| Pros: Excellent easy way for rapid navigation through any article |
| Cons: No Cons |
| Reviewer: Amoun Louis Wahba Boutros Professional Specialty: Other Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Other |
04/25/2008
| New article interface an improvement |
| Pros: Concise information on one screen. |
| Cons: |
| Reviewer: Dr Ian MacDonald Professional Specialty: Family Medicine Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group) |
04/25/2008
| - |
| Pros: easy, a good idea |
| Cons: |
| Reviewer: Dr. Mario Spinello Professional Specialty: Gastroenterology Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Other |
04/25/2008
| Tabs |
| Pros: I like the idea of being able to choose what I want to view. |
| Cons: Awkward navigation. |
| Other thoughts: I agree with the person who commented on having to scroll back up to view other options. Can you put tabs at the bottom as well and have it bring you back to the beginning of another option? |
| Reviewer: Yvonne Sargent Professional Specialty: Other Place of Work or Study: HMO |
04/25/2008
| Tab viewing |
| Pros: |
| Cons: |
| Other thoughts: In hard copy of the Journal all new article should start on odd page and and on even page. At the end of the year it is easy to tear the the journal and file the article by subject rather than binding whole one year journal. makes search difficult. |
| Reviewer: Dr.Bankim J .Amin Professional Specialty: Pulmonology Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching |
04/25/2008
| New Article Interface |
| Pros: Great idea. |
| Cons: |
| Other thoughts: Maybe the tabs could be at the side of the atricle half way down, to avoid having to scroll upp. Having images with their own tabs would be very helpful, |
| Reviewer: A White MD FRCPC Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine Place of Work or Study: Medical School Program |
04/07/2008
| Idea! |
| Pros: It makes navigation easier than before but |
| Cons: if you want to read the next section of the article, you hace to scroll all the way up. |
| Other thoughts: My suggestion is to keep this new tabs where they are, at the top of the article's website but, instead of locating article's sections in different pages and having to click on the tabs to read them, you can just place all then article in one page, which allows a complete viewing of the content of the article, and keep the tabs above just as marker hyperlinks. Thanks. |
| Reviewer: Daniel E. Pleguezuelo Professional Specialty: Other Place of Work or Study: Medical School Program |
03/14/2008
| Question ease of printing |
| Pros: Indeed the new format make it easier to make an initial connection to a specific section of the article. |
| Cons: Once you have accessed your initial selection it is just as easy to scroll to a new section as to go back and click another link. This feature adds negligible benefit in my opinion. |
| Other thoughts: Also, it is not clear how to print out the full article including references. Would the reader have to reopen in PDF format? |
| Reviewer: Kristi Wells Professional Specialty: Other Place of Work or Study: Private Physician Office (group) |
03/10/2008
| AJAX because we can AJAX |
| Pros: tabs add quicker flow between sections |
| Cons: These look like one of nearly a thousand Ajax style tabs that have been popping up. The square interface adds nothing to look. A better styled "fold out" flex style box would expand the content on the page without having to "navigate" to a new section at all. With a better overall look. |
| Other thoughts: good overall |
| Reviewer: Isaac Huffman Professional Specialty: Other Place of Work or Study: Hospital, Community |
03/10/2008
| good idea! |
| Pros: it´s very useful a good idea |
| Cons: |
| Reviewer: Francisco Lacruz Professional Specialty: Neurology/Neurosurgery Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching |
03/09/2008
| New Article Interface |
| Pros: -Saves Time and Streamlines review of references -Letters/Opinion -Format |
| Cons: None |
| Other thoughts: Curious to have a better understanding of the timing of submission and response in the letters session |
| Reviewer: Tom Manos Professional Specialty: Other Place of Work or Study: Pharmaceutical Company |
02/25/2008
| Very good!!! |
| Pros: Nice presentation and will be more practice. |
| Cons: Nothing |
| Reviewer: Matheus Abreu Professional Specialty: General Internal Medicine Place of Work or Study: Medical School Program |
02/20/2008
| Tabbed article |
| Pros: Easy navigation; easy "jump." |
| Cons: None. |
| Other thoughts: Consider including tabs for tables and images also (while retaining their original links in the body of the article.) |
| Reviewer: Oguchi Nkwocha, MD. Professional Specialty: Family Medicine Place of Work or Study: Other |
02/20/2008
| Assistant Professor |
| Pros: Great idea to streamline the article |
| Cons: The main obstacle to smoothly reading an article is the figures that force you to navigate away. If you're going to introduce tabs, I'd say make hitting a figure open it in a tab. Then tabbing back to article takes you back. |
| Reviewer: Bob Kalus Professional Specialty: Emergency Medicine Place of Work or Study: Hospital, University or Teaching |
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