Convenient JAMIA Online Features

The JAMIA online publication site, www.jamia.org, is hosted by HighWire Press, which is a not-for-profit (and also, as HighWire states, not-for-loss) subsidiary of Stanford University. Recently, JAMIA and HighWire added a number of useful and interesting features for visitors to the JAMIA Web site, www.jamia.org. We describe these changes herein. To take advantage of these features, we remind subscribers to “activate” their JAMIA subscriptions on HighWire if they have not yet done so. Activation of a JAMIA subscription can be done by going to the JAMIA homepage and “clicking” on the “Subscriptions” link on the left-hand side of the homepage. The user will then be asked for their 10-digit “Customer Number.” For those who purchased an individual membership, the “Customer Number” was included with the payment confirmation letter. For AMIA members, the AMIA member number received will serve as the “Customer Number”; if the member number is less than 10-digits add an appropriate number of zeros to the beginning of the number. The most visible changes comprise new links added to the homepage. Under the “Articles in Demand” header, one finds links to the “50 most read” and “50 most cited” JAMIA articles. The “most read” ranking is based on the number of accesses via HighWire to full-text views and PDF views of JAMIA articles. The “most cited” ranking counts citations to articles on the JAMIA site from articles posted on other HighWire-hosted journals.1 The link to the “Free Sample Issue” provides individuals, even those without a JAMIA subscription, with unrestricted access to one complete issue of JAMIA . The free sample issue is selected by the JAMIA Editorial Office and will be updated periodically to remain current. Other features added to the JAMIA homepage include the “Browse by Section” and “Free Articles” links. The former function …