Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources edited by
JCE Online
Jon L. Holmes University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI 53706
W
JCE Online 99 As I write this, JCE Online is in the middle of being redesigned to make it a more usable resource. By the time you read this, the typical online page for articles of this Journal will look like Figure 1. The page has five main features: the page heading with the global menu bar the left-hand navigation bar the page menu bar near the top of the page and repeated near the bottom the main content region in the middle of the page the right-hand column of local navigation links
The navigation links on each page are divided into global links that take you to the different main areas of JCE Online and local links that are restricted to the current issue of the Journal. Global Navigation Global navigation among the areas of JCE Online is divided into a menu bar across the top of the page and the strip along the left-hand side. The menu bar links go to JCE Online resources that pertain to all the main content areas: the JCE Online Home page, Subscription and Ordering information, the Service and Support area, Contributor information (Authors and Reviewers), and site information. The left-hand navigation bar provides links to each of the content areas of JCE Online: Login, Journal, JCE Software, JCE
Internet, ChemEd Today, JCE Books, and About JCE. As you move into one of these content areas the left-hand navigation bar will change to provide links to the various resources within that area. In the case of the Journal, these are links to the current issue, past issues, list of supplemental materials, feature columns, JCE Index, and JCE CD. A feature of the left-hand navigation bar is the floating icon that denotes any access restrictions of the link that the mouse is over. Local Navigation Local navigation is provided by a page menu bar echoed at the top and bottom of the page and by links in the right-hand column. The page menu bar allows you to easily switch among the abstract of the current article, any supplementary materials available for the article, and the full text of the article. Icons in these menu items denote the level of subscription necessary to access that item. The abstract requires no subscription, supplemental materials are available only to subscribers of the print Journal or JCE Online+ subscribers, and the full text articles are only available to JCE Online+ subscribers. The right-hand column contains the volume number, issue number, and page number of the article. The links in the right-hand column provide easy access to the Table of Contents for the issue, the next article in the issue, and the previous article in the issue. Sometimes there may be additional links to related articles or online resources. Content Area The main content area has not significantly changed. It contains the title of the article, the author(s), and the abstract. Below the abstract is a properly formatted citation and the keywords for the article. Note that if your browser supports copying and pasting styled text, the citation provides an easy way to copy citations with the proper formatting for literature references. Your Input Is Appreciated Many of the changes in JCE Online that are incorporated into the redesigned site are direct results of suggestions made by its users. Analysis of usage statistics also resulted in making the resources that are most used more readily accessible. I encourage you to make use of the email link at the bottom of every JCE Online page to submit your suggestions for further improvement of JCE Online. As a reader of the Journal, JCE Online is your resource. As JCE continues to find ways to utilize this medium, we need to hear from you to make sure that we do so in a way that corresponds to your expectations.
Figure 1. Typical Journal abstract page.
584
http://JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu/
Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 76 No. 4 April 1999 • JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu
