RSC Publishing Innovation

After successfully launching the RSC Publishing ‘beta’ platform, which gave students, researchers, scientists, librarians and information specialists access to the platform in test stage, we have been continually developing the platform for release.  Thank you to those of you that have fed back during this process, your input has been very valuable to us and we will continue to keep our Librarian Testers involved in future developments.

Launch of the new RSC Publishing platform

Timelines

• July 27th 2010* – RSC Publishing platform will be launched
• All dynamic links to content will be set to resolve to the new platform
• The RSC Publishing platform and the old website will run in parallel alongside each other to give our customers time to highlight any broken links and amend as necessary – please read the legacy URL column and short cut URL column notes
  GO TO www.rsc.org/urls
• Where possible, website redirects will be put in place to reduce errors for customers
• We will remove access to content via the old website once there are minimal redirects measured. We anticipate this to be in several months
• Our COUNTER statistics customers will access statistics through the Librarians’ Portal once we close off access to the old site
• All our customers to set up an individual Librarians’ Portal account on new platform before old website access closed
  GO TO http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Librarian

*Please note that timescales are approximate and may be subject to change

Customer Support

• Training – we will be organising webcasts throughout July to October
• Communications – we will continue to keep our customers up-to-date with migration, training and planned maintenance through the Librarians’ Portal news and to registered email addresses

Technical Support

• Migration guidelines – we are currently producing migration guidelines to help our customers to transition over to the new RSC Publishing platform, these will be available shortly
• We will be using Xlink to redirect all our links – please ensure you check any direct URLs do not have the format rsc.org/publishing… as these will become broken and will need to be changed
• For a full list or URLs (please read the legacy URL column and short cut URL column notes)
  GO TO www.rsc.org/urls

More detailed information will be provided including the migration guidelines shortly.

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.

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.