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For some months now, since January 28 of this year in fact, the AJR has been available on the Internet at www.ajronline.org or, alternatively, through the Web address of the American Roentgen Ray Society, at www.arrs.org. Were you aware of this development? Have you visited the site? Don't tell me you've been so busy with your online broker that you haven't had time to drop in on the AJR's Web site. Check it out! And it's free! (That's right, there is no charge for this service.)
There is no time like the present. Go to your computer, access your Internet provider, click "no thanks" to those ever-present advertisements, and clean up the screen. At the address bar, type in www.ajronline.org, or, if you're located in certain countries listed on the home page, you should use http://intl.ajronline.org. Then click on "go" or hit "enter," and up comes the AJR home page in glorious blue and yellow. The first thing you will notice is that it is certainly easier to get to the Journal online than it is to hunt for the printed Journal under all that stuff in your office.
Online, note the options on the left side of the screen that list various features: instructions to authors; subscription information, including change of address, among other things; "Feedback" where, if you so desire, you may enter comments about the AJR online or any other matter pertaining to the Journal. To access one of these features, simply click on the appropriate yellow tab. To move from one feature to another, click on the appropriate tab in the horizontal menu at the top of the screen.
Now for the heart of the matter: to go to the current issue, click on either the replica of the Journal cover or on "Current Issue Table of Contents" that you see under the cover. Up pops the table of contents by category: Chest Imaging, Neuroradiology, and so forth. Note that you may also search for articles by entering keywords in the field beneath the table of contents. Or you may simply scroll through the table of contents, using the scroll bar on the right. Of course, some of you more experienced, high-tech nerds may have a wheel on your mouse to accomplish the same thing. In either event, note that you may select the article in Full Text or Figures Only by clicking on the choices listed in blue after the title and list of authors. For Major Papers, Original Reports, and Computers in Radiology articles, you have the added option of selecting Abstract only.
Now let's take a look at an article from the July 2000 issue. Here's an intriguing title, "The `mini brain': plasmacytoma in a vertebral body on MR imaging" by Major et al. [1]. Click on Full Text after the listing of the article and in just a second the article appears. Scroll through it. Note the headings of the various sections that appear in blue on the left. Opposite each heading is a yellowish box containing a menu of the other sections. If you wish to jump from one section to another, simply click as desired on this menu.
Scroll down until you come to Figure 2. Images appear on the left and legends, on the right. The myeloma in the vertebral body on this MR image does indeed have a pattern of convolutions and sulci. How about that. The images are quite sharp and it is likely, depending on the size of your monitor, larger than they appear in the Journal. But even at that, images may be further enlarged simply by clicking on the image itself. When the figure is enlarged, the legend lies below. Scroll down to read it. To go back to where you were in the article, click on Return to Article.
Now let's go to the references. Scroll down, or click on References on the menu. Notice that, at the end of each reference, you see MEDLINE, Abstract, and, occasionally, Full Text. Click on MEDLINE and you go immediately to PubMed and the abstract of the referenced article is displayed. Click on the Previous button on the toolbar to return to the AJR article. At the bottom of the references is another menu that, among other things, allows you to identify other similar articles in AJR online.
This same menu also allows you to search for other articles by the first two authors of the present article. Upon clicking on the name of one of the authors, you return to PubMed and find a seemingly complete listing of the author's bibliography. If you have an academic appointment, you might want to check out your own bibliography. I did and found a couple of articles that I had forgotten. Of course, I added them to my CV! Amazing!
Once you become familiar with the electronic version of the Journal, I am certain you will come to find the AJR online not only convenient in your efforts to stay abreast of new developments in our specialty but also useful at the office to solve diagnostic and therapeutic problems in everyday practice. With AJR online, finding articles that you require is a snap.
Make www.ajronline.org your new education and practice information address. Be sure to list it among your favorite Web sites.
And then the next time someone calls attention to that stack of unopened journals on your desk, you can counter the jibe with, "Hey, to stay up-to-date I don't have to open those journals anymore. Thanks to www.ajronline.org, I do all my journal reading online."
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