About the Journal of Rheology Online

[ Service Description | Getting Started ]

The only way for an institution to access Journal of Rheology Online is through a domain license. These are included, at no extra charge, with every institutional subscription. If your library or institution has such a subscription, tell your librarian to submit the Online Journal Institutional User Agreement.

If you believe you have lost access to Journal of Rheology Online, your library may not have renewed its subscription. Bring this to your librarian's attention.

Service Description

If you are able to access full-text articles and perform searches without being prompted for a password and username, you are doing so via a subscription paid for by your library or institution.

The Tables of Contents (PDF and HTML) are not password protected. Password/username will be requested in order to view abstracts, for searching, and for viewing/downloading full text (PDF). Password/username login will be requested for all non-IP address authenticated access, and is requested only once per "session." A "session" is defined as the period between entrance/login authentication and exit; or 15 minutes of idle time. NOTE: Password/username is not requested, at any point, for access via an institutional subscription.

This online journal enables users to:

• Browse an HTML version of the current issue Table of Contents (TOC), which contains hyperlinks from each article to its abstract as well as options to either download full text as a PDF. From the abstract view, users can also download the full-text of the article as either a PDF or GZipped PostScript file, including all figures, tables, and references. In addition, users can select from a list of all available prior issues, and browse any HTML TOC, read abstracts, and view PDF (and PostScript) articles (or place a document delivery order).
• Browse a PDF version of the TOC of the current issue (and of all available prior issues), which contains weblinks to the full-text PDF article.
• Search a "Current Issue" database, featuring the option to view full-text PDF and/or PostScript articles from the abstract view.
• Search an "All Issues" database, featuring the option to view full-text PDF and/or PostScript articles from the abstract view.
• Inline image representations of mathematical entities that cannot be displayed as HTML characters are now available in article titles. However, "wordmath" equivalents (i.e., the word "alpha" or the string [alpha sup 2]) are retained in the "alt tags" (alternate text) associated with each image for users that have their browsers configured to suppress display of images.
• In addition to the PDF full-text option, a PostScript (Level 2) viewing option is available.

Some cosmetic features are worth noting:

• The HTML TOCs feature an option to view the full text of the article as either a PDF file.
• The abstract displays feature multiple view article links throughout the page.
• The PACS numbers are displayed after the PII on the bottom of each abstract since the tabular array of bibliographic information has been relocated to another page. The "Additional Information" page can be accessed by following the "Additional Information" link appearing after the PACS numbers.

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Getting Started

Here's a recommended checklist for first-time users:

• Make sure you have a current browser that supports (a) authentication (login and password), (b) HTML forms (for database queries), (c) HTML tables, (d) JavaScript (JavaScript support must be enabled to take full advantage of all Article Collection functions, as well as some functions of the reference-linking and related-article-linking functions), and (e) cookies. IMPORTANT: Authentication requires that cookies be enabled in a cookie-capable browser; more information is available in the Online Help.
• The Tables of Contents (PDF and HTML) are not password protected. Password/username will be requested in order to view abstracts, for searching, and for viewing/downloading full text (PDF).
• Password/username login will be requested for all non-IP address authenticated access, and is requested only once per session. A session is defined as the period between entrance/login authentication and exit; or 15 minutes of idle time. NOTE: Password/username is not requested, at any point, for access via an institutional subscription.
• To view full-text PDF versions of articles, as well as PDF versions of issue tables of contents, you must have (a) Adobe Acrobat Exchange, (b) the Adobe Acrobat Reader, (c) the Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plug-in, or (d) another viewer that can display or otherwise manipulate PDF files (more details are available from the Online Help page).

Consult the The Online Journal FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for a compendium of capsulized information about the Online Journal Service.

Read the Online Help thoroughly, especially with regard to using the Acrobat products in conjunction with your browser, and for detailed tutorials on how to search the Online Journal databases.

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