We are pleased to announce several new and exciting features that either have been added to, or will shortly be active, within the Veterinary Pathology journal web page. These changes will help to continually increase our journal's impact and bring the on-line journal up to the same electronic presence as other leading journals. The end result will have enhanced user features that will allow greater information exchange, faster publication of manuscripts and an increased readership base. Details regarding these new features follow.
Home page link to the Most Read Articles which lists the most frequently read articles within the last month, updated on a monthly basis. Articles are considered read if viewed in either Full Text HTML or PDF format. The Abstract view is not counted toward the article ranking. This is a nice feature to quickly see what other Veterinary Pathology readers are reading.
Home page link to the Most Cited Articles which lists Veterinary Pathology articles that are the most cited among the 1000+ journals hosted at HighWire. One way of measuring the interest in an article is by looking at the number of times a journal's articles are cited in subsequent papers. The Most Cited feature will allow users to quickly identify the Veterinary Pathology articles that have influenced thinking in veterinary pathology.
An Email a Friend feature lets users easily send a link to the article to their friends and colleagues. This is useful for users to alert friends, family, colleagues, students and mentors about articles that may be of special interest. This feature allows the person making the referral to add his or her own commentary when referring an article.
An RSS Feed allows readers to monitor web content using XML/RSS reader software. RSS (really simple syndication) is an easy way to receive automatic updates whenever new articles are published on the Veterinary Pathology web site. Instead of going to the journal site, RSS feed reading software will automatically pick up and display the new content whenever it is published. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Google Reader, and My Yahoo (among many others) offer free RSS readers.
A Google Scholar feature has been added. This means that HighWire delivers full text data files to Google Scholar to augment their data acquisition. This improves the timeliness of some indexing (so that new content is indexed sooner), the completeness of indexing (so that all articles and all issues are indexed) and the accuracy of indexing (so that complex items such as author names are accurately reflected in Google Scholar's database). This service makes Google Scholar searches on Veterinary Pathology content yield more accurate results.
Coming soon will be a Publish Ahead of Print feature. Publish Ahead of Print is a feature that benefits both authors and readers. Authors benefit because their papers are published online quickly after acceptance, which can help establish primacy of discoveries and help authors achieve important goals in timeliness. Veterinary Pathology readers benefit by having access to new research more frequently than the 6 times a year print schedule allows. This tool will enable Veterinary Pathology to publish manuscripts 4 months faster, on average, than is currently possible. Specifically, it will be possible to have manuscripts appear in the referenced literature within one month of acceptance of the manuscript. This helps readers stay on the cutting edge of their fields.
Check us out at: http://intl.vetpathology.org. Critique and comments on this initiative should be sent to: vetpath@nc.rr.com
