A major addition to the Urology website begins with the May,
2000 issue! Now, all material appearing each month in the print version
will be available on the website in full text and graphics. Thus,
at one year of age, the website of The Gold Journal joins a small circle
of premier medical-journal websites offering this valuable feature to
its readers.
Every article published in Urology will be available on the
Urology website in two formats: html, which offers full web-based
interactivity and requires only a browser, and pdf (portable document
format, Adobe Acrobat®), which replicates exactly the print version, is
fully self-contained, and allows for selected portions (or all) of the
article to be saved to a user's hard drive for later print or electronic
use.
Until August 1, 2000, all visitors to the website will enjoy free
access to the full content of the Urology website. After that
date, only subscribers will have access to full text and graphics;
non-subscriber will still be able to access the current and upcoming
tables of contents and all abstracts. The articles will be placed into a
permanent archive on the website, and there they will be fully
"searchable".
In the not-too-distant future, a video section will be added. This
section will provide to urological scientists with dynamic processes to
describe--e.g., operative procedures, disease mechanisms, metabolic
pathways--a unique method to present new peer-reviewed information.
Technical details are currently being resolved for Urology to
have one of the first online, peer-reviewed video sections in any
medical journal. We hope to have the video section operational within
the next 6 months. We encourage you to return to the site frequently to
look at this and other new developments.
We continue to welcome the comments of our readership, which may be
sent by e-mail toor
by selecting the "Feedback" button.
Comments can also be sent directly to the website editor:
Leonard S. Marks, M.D.
Website Editor
Alan W. Partin, M.D., Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief