Visitors to ADA.org now can read the complete text of The Journal of the American Dental Association online.
Through an alliance with ingenta inc., the full text and graphics of JADA cover stories, clinical practice and research articles, commentaries, letters to the editor and other features now are available online, dating from January 1998 to the present.
"We’re providing 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. "Electronic delivery offers our members, as well as others in the profession, instant access to the JADA archives and advanced search capabilities, all in an interface that is familiar to ADA.org visitors."
The JADA portal is accessed through the current issue’s Contents page, which is available at "www.ada.org/prof/pubs/jada/index.asp". From there, visitors can follow hyperlinks to download articles from the current issue, view past issues of JADA and search the archives by title, author, keywords and date. This page also offers links to participate in the JADA Continuing Education Program, download author guidelines and find information about advertising in JADA.
Articles are downloadable in one of two formats: as portable document format, or PDF, files or in hypertext markup language, or HTML. A PDF file essentially is an exact replica of the printed page as it appears in JADA; viewing and printing it requires Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader (go to "www.adobe.com" to download this application). The HTML format includes the same text and illustrations as the PDF file format but in a simplified graphic presentation that is faster to download and is viewable in any Web browser.
By clicking on the ingenta logo, visitors can travel seamlessly to the ingenta platform where they can search JADA and other journals. The ingenta portal opens the way to more than 10 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.
Access to JADA will be offered free of charge until July 2002 to ADA members and non-members alike. Thereafter, this service will remain free to members, while nonmembers will be charged an access fee.
"Having JADA online is the best innovation this site has seen in the two years that I have been a member," said Patrick Rowe, a dental student and an ADA and American Student Dental Association student member. "Great job, and thank you."
