The National Academy of Sciences has announced the launch of a newly redesigned, rebranded, and updated site for their flagship journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), on Atypon’s online publishing platform, Literatum. The launch coincides with the 25th anniversary of the journal’s expansion into an online publication in 1997.
The new Literatum site uses the latest advances in digital publishing to make PNAS more portable, allowing discovery and content browsing on any device; more searchable, giving users powerful new ways to find the content most relevant to them; and more author-centric, giving authors usage and citation trend data and easier article sharing. In addition, the new PNAS site unites PNAS’ journal content with their blog and podcast content from other platforms, so that visitors can find all PNAS content in one place, regardless of format.
The site’s redesign by the Atypon Design Studio opens PNAS up to a larger and more diverse population of authors and readers than ever before. Readers can now see the content they want front and center and can personalize their interactions with the journal. The redesign also recognizes the diversity of the journal’s reader and author communities by following accessibility best practices that make the site more inclusive. This includes enhanced figure views, higher-resolution images, and better zoom capabilities, use of alt text, typography changes, and improved color contrast.
PNAS is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. The journal is global in scope and submission is open to all researchers worldwide. Since its establishment in 1914, PNAS has worked to publish only the highest quality scientific research and to make that research accessible to a broad audience. In addition, PNAS publishes non-research content, including Commentaries, Perspectives, Colloquium Papers, podcasts, and profiles of NAS members.
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