Posts by Rachel Craven

Senior Product Manager, Publishing, BioMed Central

Accessing BioMed Central from mobile devices – phase 2

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To improve the user experience for users accessing the websites from mobile devices, we’re pleased to announce the second phase of our project to support access from mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.

New functionality released includes:

Mobile search and search results
Mobile ‘Contact us’ pages
Mobile navigation menu, accessible from the top of the screen

An update to the Mobile FAQ has also been published – read more about the new mobile-friendly features here.

 

BioMed Central support for data publishing: enhanced handling of additional files

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At BioMed Central, we encourage authors to submit additional files such as movies and datasets, and we continue to look for ways to use web technology to make these files more useful and accessible.

We have recently updated our Instructions for Authors, adding an additional file quick reference guide, which provides advice, recommendations and examples for the preparation of various types of additional file. The guide also describes what we currently do to present each type of additional file in a readily accessible way. Examples range from interactive images to enhanced 3D PDFs, chemical structures and cut-and-paste-enabled mathematical formulae. We hope the guide will encourage authors to take full advantage of the data-sharing opportunities offered by the BioMed Central …

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Accessing BioMed Central from mobile devices

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BioMed Central now supports access from mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.

BioMed Central portals and journal websites have been updated so that users on smartphones or tablets have an enhanced experience when viewing full text articles, making better use of small screen sizes and touch-screen functionality. Improving the experience when reading fulltext articles is our first priority, but we will be rolling out further mobile optimizations in the coming months. BioMed Central’s blog network is already optimized for mobile.

Accessing the mobile-friendly version of articles is easy.

BioMed Central uses a ‘responsive’ web design. This means that the website automatically responds to the capabilities of the device that …

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We’ve had a make-over

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We’ve transferred our blogs to WordPress. WordPress allows us to introduce features which we hope make it easier for you to navigate the blogs, find content which is relevant and interesting, and participate in conversation.

New structure: we have introduced a new top level page, showcasing highlights from blogs across the BioMed Central blog network. This is designed to make navigating the sites more intuitive and to bring new content to the forefront.
Improved navigation: the new blog framework provides improved navigation through our ever-expanding content. You can discover content via links, via the archive, and via tags and tag clouds.
Enhanced share options: we have added easy-to-use share options which are positioned prominently on individual blog posts, on blog homepages …

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Going mobile: BioMed Central mobile internet access survey

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At BioMed Central, we want to provide the best possible services to our users. We’re thinking about our mobile services and offerings, and we’d love to know what you think.

Interested in getting involved?

If you’d like to participate, please take our short survey – it should take no more than 3-5 minutes of your time.

Complete the survey.