 |
|
 |
|
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Complete access to the articles and many of the features in PEDIATRICS electronic pages is available to everyone on the Internet, free of charge. Certain features are limited to subscribers to the print journal.
For additional information, please see the Subscriber Services page.
PEDIATRICS electronic pages was first published as an extension of the print edition of the journal PEDIATRICS in January 1997. All editions of the electronic pages will remain available for search and retrieval via the browse and search page.
PEDIATRICS electronic pages contains original, peer-reviewed research articles in pediatric medicine. The same editorial selection criteria used for selecting articles for the print journal PEDIATRICS are used to select the articles in PEDIATRICS electronic pages. There is a slight preference in PEDIATRICS electronic pages for articles with international importance, due to the instantaneous international reach of the Internet.
The articles in PEDIATRICS electronic pages are indexed in PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's Internet extension of Medline and an area informally designated as "pre-Medline." The articles are not yet indexed in Medline itself; however, we anticipate that they will be incorporated into Medline by the end of 1997. It is important to note that PubMed has become the on-line standard for Medline searching, making the articles in PEDIATRICS electronic pages available almost immediately after publication around the world in standard Medline citation format.
PEDIATRICS electronic pages is accessed by thousands of users every month throughout North America and in more than 75 countries around the world, and our recently enhanced international distribution should improve service to our readers in many areas of the world. We feel that these facts demonstrate that this method of publishing new medical findings (and providing services to researchers and clinicians) is having an impact.
Does it seem as if our home page and current issue never change? We publish new issues on the same schedule as the print edition. If you know that a new issue of the print journal has been published but don't see that issue appearing on the site you may be experiencing a caching problem. Please read "Is the journal getting stale?" for more information.
In some cases, author names containing accents and other diacritics and special characters are displayed incorrectly in the author index and table of contents. In these cases, the accented letters usually are dropped. Because these changes affect indexing of author names, you should avoid searching author names containing special characters until this problem is corrected.
The small pictures in the text of articles are called "thumbnails." They are supposed to be small enough to load quickly and large enough to get the general idea of what it is. (See the related question below.)
Pediatrics Online supports a two-step expansion of thumbnail images. Clicking on a thumbnail displays a larger version of a figure or table, as well as the complete text of the figure's caption. You don't need any additional software to view this medium-size image. See Viewing Figures for more details.
This reflects a problem in the setup of your image viewer. Please see Help with High-Resolution Image Viewing.
We considered reducing image sizes, but we found that we were unable to maintain sufficient quality in smaller images.
See the instructions in Pediatrics Online Features.
Internet browsers are fairly capable image viewers, but not very capable image printers. However, we have available high-quality PDF versions of articles. See Help with Printing for more details.
We display a figure directly after the paragraph in which it is first mentioned. If an author chooses to label a figure "Figure 3" but refers to it in the text before Figures 1 or 2, the figures will appear out of order.
The tiny images are the only way for us currently to represent symbols that are not available in the standard HTML ISO-Latin-1 character set.
However, HTML standards are being developed which will allow us to represent at least some of these symbols without the use of "inline images". As reliable browsers which support those standards become available, we'll use fewer inline images for symbols and special characters.
This could have two causes: either you have Auto Load Images turned
off, or you have encountered an image which didn't get processed.
If you have enabled Auto Load Images and the image still doesn't
display, please send us Feedback
and we'll investigate the problem.
If you are having trouble, please take a look at our Help with Searching page.
