The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications Division has launched a new experimental website called JACS Beta. The offering is a test site for innovative features that the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) and its customers are interested in incorporating into the publication's web edition.
JACS Beta, available for free at http://pubs.acs.org/JACSbeta, allows users to provide feedback on features ACS is experimenting with to improve the web editions of its publications and extend the reach of JACS content. The JACS Beta website is separate from the web edition of JACS at http://pubs.acs.org/JACS.
Initial features currently available for testing include JACS Virtual Issues; an interview with William R. Roush, editor of the first JACS Virtual Issue on the Total Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products; JACS Audio Summaries; JACS PowerPoint Slide Sets, containing all figures for selected JACS articles; and PDFs of selected publications with a newly designed cover page.
The journal invites chemists, biologists, other scientists and anyone interested in science to visit the site and participate in the testing.
