SAGE Journals Online
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The document discusses SAGE Journals Online's focus on user-centered design and their next generation online product. SAGE organizes by global market segment and has a dedicated development and support team. They also conduct in-house research and consult advisory boards. The next version of SAGE Journals Online is being designed in partnership with academics and undergoes user consultation and review of concepts and prototypes throughout development to serve current research needs with agile navigation features like hideaways, keyword search, tagalong navigation, and image view options.
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SAGE Journals Online
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- 7. Feature hideaway Keyword search
- 9. Tagalong navigation Image view options
Editor's Notes
- Departments now organized by market segment with staff in offices around the world focused on global academic needs and products in diverse markets Online Product Division – dedicated to online product development and management In-house market researchers – feeding data into library marketing, editorial, design teams. SAGE advisory boards – for researchers, faculty, librarians and more
- Several-year process of design and feature development based upon initial market research exercises in partnership with HighWire Press. Throughout development, SAGE library and researcher advisory boards provided real-time feedback, incorporated into each iteration of our new site. The end result has proven to serve today’s academic research needs – with agile navigation throughout our nearly 600 journals.
- Redesigned main portal with targeted options for improved navigation by a variety of user types
- Custom taxonomy created for our journals – for discipline-driven search. Broad matrix of terms to organize our nearly 600 journals, with 4 parent categories and 53 sub-categories within each, for topics and journals.
- Same taxonomy applies to browse and alerting features.
- Refocused journal sites to treat articles as new home pages – to ensure easy access to key journal services and research tools. Feature hideaway – menus retain your preferences within a session. Keyword search, to save researchers a few steps to query terms against the journal’s archive.
- Abstract pop-up keeps users in context as they browse TOCs and search results
- Tag-along navigation – follows a reader throughout the full text of an article, providing easy access to key article services, such as citation information and article navigation. Image viewing options – resizing and PowerPoint download.
- New designs allow for more agile feature changes – with widget technology allowing easier development of pages to fit user needs