The full text and graphics from The Journal of the American Dental Association and a host of other health-related publications are being readied for online posting.
Internet access to JADA and more than 400 other health care journals—including 22 international dental journals—will be provided at no charge to members and nonmembers alike for one year. Thereafter, the service will remain free to ADA members, while nonmembers will be charged a per-article access fee.
"We’re offering this new online service in response to feedback from our Web-savvy viewers," said Laura A. Kosden, publisher and chief operating officer of ADA Publishing, a division of ADA Business Enterprises Inc.
Through an alliance with ingenta inc., the complete text and graphics of JADA cover stories, clinical and research articles, columns and commentaries, letters to the editor and other features will be available online, dating from January 1998 to the present and beyond.
Visitors will be able to explore JADA through the Association’s Web site, ADA.org, using a keyword search engine. They also will be able to travel seamlessly to the ingenta platform where they can search other journals, as well as JADA. The ingenta portal opens the way to more than 1.3 million articles from the ingenta collection and a MEDLINE database. Visitors may be charged for access to journals other than JADA, though all abstracts are available free of charge.
Billed as the "Global Research Gateway," ingenta serves about 2 million visitors each month, offering more than 400 health care journals as part of a collection of about 2,800 full-text electronic journals in a variety of fields.
Articles will be downloadable in one of two formats: as portable document format, or PDF, files or in hypertext markup language, or HTML. A PDF file is essentially an exact replica of the printed page as it appears in JADA. The HTML format includes the same text and illustrations but in a simplified graphic presentation that’s faster to download.
