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Byline: Tracey Caldwell

Facelift for CUP online journals

Tracey Caldwell

Cambridge University Press (CUP) has updated its journal hosting platform. Extra features include Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and Atom feeds for new content published by each journal, article citation downloads and Athens authentication access. The site will also allow metadata harvesting.

There is an improved interface for organisation administrators and a new layer of administration tools for consortium administrators, allowing them to monitor usage, correct and amend IPs and display consortium messages and logos. The system is written in Java and runs on the open source JBOSS J2EE server.

Chris Fell, online development manager at Cambridge Journals Online, said the journal hosting platform was developed to meet the needs of information professional users: "We incorporated the suggestions we received from our users and ...

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