The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS Publications) has announced the launch of a fully redesigned web delivery platform. This platform delivers global access to all ACS journals and books, as well as to the C&EN Global Enterprise edition. The website supports over 6,000 universities, corporations and government research centers worldwide, hosts over 1.4 million peer-reviewed articles and delivers over 130 million article requests per year. This new website offers enhanced features and functionality for authors and researchers, including a more intuitive user interface, prominent article metrics, sophisticated browsing, and a responsive, mobile-friendly design.
Built on over 10 years of digital publishing user experience, the ACS Publications website boasts an improved article research experience with a modern interface, a streamlined look and feel, and revamped tools. All article pages now showcase key metrics, such as article views, Altmetric scores and citations, as well as improved navigation to figures, supporting information and references. All journal tables of contents and article collection pages feature a preview of both the graphical and written abstracts, improving the browsing capabilities for researchers. Open access and reuse rights are clearly embedded in each article’s metadata.
The site is fully responsive for mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones. Researchers can pair laptops and mobile devices while on an authenticated institutional network to enable access to content while offsite for up to four months. As a result of this embedded functionality, ACS’ previous mobile app, ACS2Go, will be phased out.
The updated site introduces substantial improvements to ACS Publications’ web delivery, powered by Literatum, Atypon’s online publishing and website development platform. While ACS Publications has been a Literatum client for over 10 years, content will now be fully hosted on the Atypon infrastructure to further improve site performance and more quickly integrate code, performance and security updates.
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