Abstract
If you have accessed JFMS online recently, you will have seen that there have been some developments – it has a fresh new look for starters! For those who haven’t, there is, we hope, a treat in store. At the start of the year, all of SAGE’s journals, JFMS and its sister title JFMS Open Reports included, moved to a new online publishing platform powered by Atypon’s Literatum. In so doing, they joined more than one-third of the world’s English language scholarly and professional journals.
(above) The new-look website home page. (right) An overview of the online attention received by individual articles is provided via article metrics (Altmetrics)
Rest assured, the journal’s content hasn’t changed – and remains the same high quality that our readers enjoy and rely on (as was so pleasingly confirmed by the 2016 JFMS Reader Survey, see page 311). Neither has the journal URL (jfms.com) changed; nor the way in which AAFP and ISFM members access the journal online through their respective society web areas. What has changed is the user experience: two years of research and prototype user testing has led to a host of new developments targeted specifically to meet the needs of readers, researchers and authors. As we write this, we are aware that some tweaks are needed, and that there is some missing content, but these issues are being fixed and development will continue behind the scenes for some time.
So what does the new JFMS website deliver? Foremost among the improvements are:
Respondents to our Reader Survey were overwhelmingly positive about JFMS, describing it as ‘brilliant … relevant … informative … friendly ….trusted …stimulating’. By providing an enhanced online experience, we hope that the new website will enable you to get the very most from the journal, navigating its ever-growing archive of high quality clinical research, state-of-the-art reviews and consensus guidelines efficiently and productively.