BMJ Journals Online Collection A guide to the BMJ Journals websites – what they can do and how to use them.

BMJ JournalsOnline Collection

A guide to the BMJ Journals websites – what they can do and how to use them

The BMJ Journals Online Collection is more than just the electronic version of the print journals. They are still the journals that you know and trust but with many added features not available in print.

At bmjjournals.com, you can:

• Read issues before they are published in print• Search the entire back archive using keywords, citation, or author’s name. • Find information relevant to your interest or speciality • Make use of our email-a-friend feature to share articles. • Gain access to over 900 other journals on HighWire Press

Register with the sites for free to make full use of these features and many more.

Librarians

Sign up to our newsletter for regular updates available from ourLibrary Resource Centre, a dedicated section of our site designed to give you all the information you require to get the most out of your subscription.

The advanced search allows you to search for articles in any BMJ Journal or in any of the 800+ HighWire journals (see http://highwire.stanford.edu or slide 13)

Searching

Use the quick search box at the top right of any page to search by author name, citation or keyword.

Alternatively use the ‘Search’ link on the homepage for more advanced searching.You can browse through the

archive using the ‘Current issue’ or ‘Past issues’ link on the homepages.

Topic collectionsOne of the best ways to find content relevant to your interests is to use the ‘Browse by topic’ link on the journal’s homepage.

Every article in the BMJ Journals online is assigned to topical areasoriginally devised for the electronic version of the BMJ, making it easy tosearch across more than one journal.

BMJ Journals have over 250 clinical and non-clinical topic collections.

You can register with the site for free to receive email notificationwhen a new article is added to your chosen collection(s).

The Latest issue and ‘Online First’

Click on the journal cover on the homepage or the ‘Current issue’ link.

You can register for our free email alerting service that will send you notification when the latest issue is online*.

Some of our sites post articles that have been accepted for publication but have not yet appeared in the paper journal, allowing you access to selected articles in their raw manuscript form a few days after acceptance.

To see these articles go to the journal homepage and click on the ‘Online First’ logo.

Email alertsEmail alerts provide you with a time-saving solution to keep abreast ofeach new online issue of your BMJ journal. An email is sent to yourinbox letting you know the new issue is available and allowing youto browse the latest table of contents immediately, including articles,letters and reviews.

To sign up click on the ‘new content alerts’ link on the homepage. You willneed to register with the site for this free service.

Your interests –straight to your inbox

Receive emails when content matching your interests is published.

‘Keyword’ and ‘Search term’ alerts can notify you when articlesmatching your criteria are published in any BMJ Journal, HighWirejournal, or in journals listed in PubMed/Medline.

Click on ‘Citation tracker’ on the homepage and follow the simple instructions. You will need to register with the site for this free service.

Track topics, papers and authors

Sign up for our CiteTrack service, we’ll let you know by emailwhenever new content in your chosen BMJ Journal is published.

You can customise CiteTrack to let you know when new topics are added to, when authors publish new papers on the site and whenever an article that you are interested in is referenced by another paper.

Looking for an older article?

You can browse the archives of all the BMJ Journals using the ‘Browse by issue’ link on the journal homepage, or the ‘Archive’ button which is on every page.

After 12 months all articles are free. If the article you want to read is less than 12 months old and you or your institution are not subscribers, you can purchase a single article or access to the whole site for 30 days. Click on the full text link of the required article and follow the Pay Per View/SitePass’ instructions.

The full text of some articles may not be available online. We are currentlyworking on a project that will make our entire back archive, dating back50 years or more, available in PDF format. In the meantime you can ordercopies of older articles from the BMA document delivery service. Use the‘Find older articles’ link on each homepage.

Articles – How do you want to read them?

View the latest articles and research for your favourite journals online.Every article is available as an abstract, extract, in full text or as a PDF.Simply click for the format you require.

You do not need a subscription to read the abstract or extracts of our articles.

Something to say about an article?

Comment on any article published online. By following the ‘Submit a response’link on any article you can submit your opinions directly to the journal.If suitable, these are published within 48 hours and an email is sent tothe original author notifying them of your comments on their paper.

Bench>Press – Submitting an manuscript

For all the BMJ Journals*, the manuscript submission and trackingprocess is conducted entirely online using our Bench>Press system. Forinformation click on the ‘Submit a manuscript’ or ‘Author/Reviewerguidelines’ links on the journals homepage.*except the Evidence Based journals and Medical Humanities

A gateway to over 900 journalsThe BMJ Journals Online Collection is hosted by HighWire Press, alongside 800+ other journals. All of these journals can be accessed through the HighWire Portal. The site has been designed to helpresearchers comprehensively search and gain access to the literature easily - both journals they regularly read and literature in journals they might otherwise miss - and to help librarians support their researchers and institutions with more complete and improved services.

You can use the HighWire Portal to receive content alerts from multiple publishers and search across as many journals as you like. You can personalise the HighWire Portal to display links to your favourite journals and manage all your subscriptions at once. Register for free at http://highwire.stanford.edu.

Other Features of the BMJ Journals Collection

Email a friend – recommend an article to a friend using this free feature, available on any abstract, full text or PDF.

Feedback – to give us your feedback on the site or if you have any general queries, click the ‘Feedback’ button at the top of any page.

Free reference links – automatic full-text linking is provided for any reference that cites another HighWire journal (see highwire.stanford.edu for a full list).

Future content – websites list recently accepted papers and the table of contents for the next issue as soon as it is available, often up to 6 weeks before the issue is published.

Medline/PubMed – search 12 million bibliographic citations and author abstracts from nearly 5,000 biomedical journals.

RSS – receive automatic updates every time the site is updated with our RSS feeds. There are two feeds available: the current issue, and back issues. To find out more or to subscribe to a feed use the links from the homepages.

Citation manager – author harvesting of references.

Citation map – see a visual representation of the HighWire articles citing or cited by your selected article.

Reader’s Favourites – click on the ‘Top 10 Papers’ button on the homepage to see the most read articles each month.

Data supplements – additional material online that doesn’t appear in the print journal. Look out for additional tables, references, videos, images etc.

Folders – registered users can save searches or selected articles for future reference using our Folders feature.

Images as PowerPoint slides – turn any image into a slide for teaching at the click of a button. Click on the image to access this feature.

Other Features of the BMJ Journals Collection

Librarians

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Subscription/Support Information

For further details about subscribing, activation and access to BMJ Journals Online please contact our customer services department by telephone on +44 (0)20 7383 6270, by fax on +44 (0)20 7383 6402 or email us at [email protected] or [email protected] for institutional sales.

We are happy to activate online subscriptions for our institutional customers.

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