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“Subject Browsing: The World Is Not Just Search”

PDFs in Journals

26th SSP MeetingJune 4th , 2004

Bonnie I. Chi-Lum, MD MPHPublisher, Online Business

JAMA and Archives Journals

“First, they do an online search.”

PDF format is offered for all the journal’s online content along with the abstract and full text view.

PDF utilities – Acrobat Standard• Document merge –Convert and combine proposals,

presentations, images, and other documents into one compact Adobe PDF file

• Review management -create a list of reviewers and track whether feedback is received

• Accurate comments -Indicate text edits such as insertions, deletions, and replacements

• Comment summaries - Gather comments into one document

Sample PDF document using the highlighting and review tools

“We’re running a little bit behind, so I’d like each of you to ask yourself, ‘Am I really that sick, or would I just be wasting

the doctor’s valuable time?’”

What our readers want

• “Unlock the PDF so we can highlight, comment, and share our documents.”

• “We want to use images from PDFs and annotate PDFs”

Our response

• Unlocked the PDFs while ensuring the security and integrity of the document

• We also append our PDFs – so someone downloading a document will receive the corrected version