Academic publisher Cambridge University Press (CUP), US, has announced enhancements to its online journals platform, Cambridge Journals Online (CJO). Major new developments in functionality and design are projected to provide improved access to CUP's collection of over 230 leading academic and practitioner journals in science, technology and medicine, the humanities and social sciences.
Cambridge schedules three major releases of updated functionality each year to develop a flexible, customer-focused service. Some key new developments released include social bookmarking services, which allow users to save URL links of web pages they want to remember or share. Users can now bookmark links from journal homepages and article abstracts via such services as del.icio.us, Connotea, and Bibsonomy. CJO is also fully enabled for users of the CiteULike service.
Enhanced search facilities, which include Cite Search for titles matches the title of a journal as the user types; context-sensitive spelling correction suggests alternative spellings to words not matched in the initial search; automatic saved searches with re-run and edit facilities; and the ability to search throughout the CJO website using the 'quick search' option. Users can now to log in directly from the abstract page of an article. Also, a Widget can be downloaded from the main CJO homepage and used to search the site.
Sample and New issue links have been created for each journal to directly access the journal's sample issue or new issues. The second phase of development for this complex functionality includes such additions for CJO users as recognising comments by unique identifiers, the ability to set up comment alerts, and the option to publish comments anonymously.
As a not-for-profit publisher, CUP sees itself as uniquely placed to offer a stable publishing environment in a volatile market place. CUP is continuing further research and development to provide new features and further enhancements for CJO.
