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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12/10/2009
 Article navigation |
| Pros: The tab navigation is on its way to become standard in several journal platforms. Even more so the initiative is in the right direction |
| Cons: Mobile devices. Need to consider how to better convey information through a small non-PC screen, incl easy search and placement of navigation links |
| Other thoughts: The tab could float, so it is always available during scroll. Consider mini table of contents at the top of articles to allow readers jumping directly to sections using minimal scroll |
| Reviewer: Neil Blair Christensen Professional Specialty: Other Place of Work or Study: Corporation |
12/04/2009
 Article of the future.....just another CSS with Tabs |
| Pros: Better than what is currently the format for NEJM. Tabs are a good beginning. |
| Cons: Check out two sites for examples: Cell Press: Article of the Future and the SciVee site. These are more progressive and pointing towards the future. |
| Other thoughts: Start thinking about how the user will be using the content not how they are viewing it in the HTML page. Think iPhone to start and then also think about the supplemental content being a part of the article presentation. Start encouraging your authors to think of ways to enable their article content other than the text itself. The beta article format is still 5 years behind the user's expectations. Don't feel bad everyone else is far behind. At least you have a beta with a feedback page. Keep working on it! |
| Reviewer: A. Viewer Professional Specialty: Other Place of Work or Study: Other |
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 |
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