The American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society, co-publishers of the Virtual Journals in Science and Technology (VJ) series, have announced the release of a completely redesigned website for the Virtual Journals. The series currently includes five publications, covering the areas of applications of superconductivity, biological physics research, nanoscale science & technology, quantum information, and ultrafast science.
The Virtual Journals are hosted on AIP's Scitation online platform and benefit greatly from the 2008 content redesign of article abstract pages. Highlighting that redesign are a number of features that offer users enhanced interactivity with journal content, and greater latitude in utilising the information provided. A tabbed environment has improved readability and navigation throughout the site, and provided easy access to lists of linked references and citing articles. In addition, navigation to higher levels of the journals, now appear as "breadcrumb" links in the upper left of each abstract; citation downloads, including DOIs, to standard bibliographic formats can also be found for Scitation-hosted source journals.
Finally, the focus of each individual VJ is now on the content of the current issue, with this content displayed on the VJ's homepage. Additional space is also dedicated to news items, which will allow readers to access a greater number of older news items, which until now have been removed after a brief time period.
