Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med.,
Volume 157, Number 4, April 1998, 1009-1009
ATS Journals Now Online
With the unique needs of its members in mind, ATS contracted with Stanford's HighWire Press to
publish its two journals online. We are proud to announce that beginning with the March 1998 issues, both American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and the American Journal
of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology are available online in full text on the World Wide Web.
For the first six months, this service will be entirely free for exploration. After this period it will
only be accessible by ATS members and our nonmember subscribers.
The web address is http://www.atsjournals.org, or http://intl.atsjournals.org from many countries
in Europe and Asia. This service should be extremely useful for all readers, but especially so for
those outside North America, who will now have the ability to read full-text articles the same day
the journals are mailed. There are a host of features provided, including full-text display of articles
with all images and figures. Inherent in the system is a search capability to retrieve articles in past
or present journals. As we start this program, we have included all issues starting from July 1997, as
well as all abstracts starting from 1994. In addition, the table of contents for future issues will be
available on the Journals site in advance of publication.
Other features include a hyperlink, or single click, to pass from one article to another article,
commentary, or letter of related content in the same journal; all Medline reference links are instantly available. This allows one to read the abstracts of any reference that has been used. In addition, if an electronic publisher is integrated with the HighWire database, the full text for its cited
reference also becomes instantly available. Another feature will be current content awareness,
which will allow readers to request and receive an E-mail of the contents of the journal when it appears online. We plan to add additional features in the future. Finally, one benefit of using Stanford's nonprofit HighWire press is accessibility to its user help line at ats.journalsfeedback{at}forsythe.standford.edu, which should help users to negotiate any difficulties that may arise.
