Academic Publisher SAGE is adding a new feature to its SAGE Journals Online offerings with SAGE scope, a tool that provides readers with interactive slide imagery as supplements to articles posted on SAGE Journals Online. The digital pathology scanning and hosting will be provided by Flagship Biosciences, and powered by SlidePath's Digital Image Hub software.
This new addition will allow readers to view the pathology slides not as a flat image, but as if they were seeing it under their own light microscope. The ultra-high resolution slide with the proper digitisation software can pan, zoom, and focus slides while adding specific application functionality unique to each user.
Researchers will be able to drill down to 20x magnification with rich detail and high resolution, giving them full access to all the data the author or authors saw when they took the sample. SAGE claims to be the first academic publisher to create an active digital database for this, and sees further potential for use in its medical journals.
SAGE scope can be currently seen in selected SAGE Journals Online.
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