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Now rolling out PDF versions of Advance Articles

One of your most requested developments for the RSC Content Platform has been to have access to journal Advance Articles in PDF format. We have started to roll this out across journals, beginning with Chemical Science, where all Advance Articles are now available as both PDF and as Rich HTML. 

Advance Articles as PDF
Advance Articles can now be accessed in PDF format

There are a few issues at the moment with accessing the PDFs from some of the Article Homepages, but all the PDF links work correctly from the Journal Homepage. Advance Articles will be available as PDFs for all other journals over the coming weeks, as soon as these can be rolled out. Please continue to leave your suggestions for development, via the feedback link at the top of the platform site.

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Announcing launch of Release 3.1.0 of RSC Publishing Platform

Bugs fixed in this release:

  • The RSS feed for a saved search does not work.
  • An error page is displayed when user clicks on the front cover of the journal in the issue navigation.
  • On librarian registration page address field should accept commas & post code should accept spaces.
  • Incorrect results are displayed when user searches for journal name & year in ‘Find an Issue’ section on journal home page.

Other changes:

  • Description of theme is now displayed on article collection landing page.
  • Navigation on user registration page is removed.
  • Issue with reference manager download have been fixed.
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Announcing launch of Release 3.0.0 of RSC Publishing Platform

New functionality:

Article Landing page: 

  • Article landing page design changes to display citation (forward linking) in new Tab.
  • Displaying theme information on article landing page for articles belonging to theme issue or web collection.
  • Added navigation to take user to back to search results.
  • Link for navigating to Partner society landing page if journal belongs to one or more societies.

Journal Landing page:

  • Theme tab added for journals having Theme issues/collections.
  • Content list on Issue tab are displayed in sections based on theme title and article types.
  • Link for navigating to Partner society landing page if journal belongs to one or more societies.
  • Displayed theme metainfo for each article if they belong to a theme,
  • Validation changes in issue finder issue no field.
  • Values in Issue finder are pre-populated.
  • Changed issue navigation links.
  • Maintaining tab state and pagination when user navigates back to JLP.

Custom eAlerts and RSS feeds: 

  • User can subscribe to custom eAlerts and RSS feeds from My Saved searches page.

User Profile:

  • Design changes, removed tabs and added right hand side navigations.
  • Implemented change password functionality.
  • When user updates email address confirmation mail is sent to confirm email address change. Once user confirms then only email id gets updated in database.

Search Result:

  • Displayed theme metainfo for each article if they belong to a theme,
  • Providing hyperlink on Journal name for each article.
  • Maintaining tab state and pagination when user navigates back to search result.

Journal Home page: 

  • Decade start and end year are set to start and end year of Journal.

New pages: 

  • Article collection landing page.
  • Partner societies admin page.
  • Journal and Partner society mapping admin page.
  • Partner society landing page.

Bugs fixed in this release:

  • My Saved searches: Saved search content records are not getting deleted.
  • “In partnership with ..” link is not getting displayed for ‘Chemical Science’even if the association is created for it.
  • Change Password:  The messages are not cleared when “Clear” button is clicked.
  • Change Password: Page load error page is displayed when the user is idle for sometime after loggin in.
  • Article Landing Page – Login Details looks to be associated with abstract.
  • Also include Zotero, CiteULike, Connotea in ref download options (as well as Ref Mgr etc)
  • Special characters (like ‘-‘ ; ‘,’) should be allowed in eBook title, Chapter title, series title field as per RSC data.

Known issues:  

  • Scroll position on Search result and Journal landing Page is maintained only in Firefox.
  • For new links added on librarian portal there are no CMS pages so for all the pages Privacy policy page is displayed.
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Announcing launch of Release 2.0.0 of RSC Publishing Platform

New functionality:

  • RSC Search API.
  • Enable/Disable PDF link for advance articles on Article landing and Search result page based on PDF exist flag.
  • Issue navigation on Journal Home Page.
  • Display of Theme issue name in Issue navigation on Journal Home Page and on Journal Landing Page (Issue Tab).
  • Forward linking on Article landing page.
  • Accepted Manuscripts displayed on Advance Article Tab.

Bugs fixed in this release:

  • Admin is not able enter any Job Position which is less than 3 or more than 15 characters.
  • The comma is displayed on a new line for serach results of DOI:10.1039/B918390F.
  • The length of the carousels text to describe the journals should be increased on home page.
  • On site home page blog entry links become and stay underlined once they have been visited.
  • Alignment is poor on landing page for DOI:for SA9741100310 on IE7, IE8.
  • The heading text is getting displayed as – Browse by Title: New Title. s is missing.
  • User can’t read the names on the ‘Institution Name’ dropdown menu in IE6.
  • Advance Articles not appearing in UI if there is only one Adv Article for a Journal.
  • ‘Phone Number’ field is not accepting any special chars like + and also not accepting any number more than 14 chars.
  • Error message as – “Invaild Journal name” is displayed for journal name with “A” in Journal field.
  • Page not found error is displayed when user clicks PDF link on chapter landing page.
  • Books home page: No results displayed when browsed by Subject area.
  • eAlert registration issue.
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