More pleasing experience when viewing an article

[justinGilmer]

Just some things and possible improvements I noticed between viewing an article on PLOS and on our site.

Pros

1. The PDF viewer / integration with Firefox looks great.
   • I really like the way that is set up on our site.
   • Very pleasing to view compared to the html interactive view that defaults for PLOS
2. The longer we can prevent advertisements the better, looks very jarring when viewing PLOS.

Cons

1. The top of the page when viewing an article on LiveCOMS seems out of place. I feel like our logo should be bolder/bordered so the user can recognize that it is a link to the landing page.
2. When scrolling through an article on plos, the title and authors travels with the scroll.
   • See this PLOS example
   • Compared to our current view

Improvements

1. Change the logo when viewing an article to look more like a link/not blending into the background
2. Have the title, authors, link back to the landing page, and a download pdf button follow the user at as they scroll through an article.
   • Add an option to remove the dynamic bar if the user would like (small x in the top right)

I am unsure how difficult/possible this is to implement with our journal.

[davidlmobley]

@mrshirts - you're the only one with edit access to the livecomsjournal.org website; can you comment on how doable these would be if at all? Or is this just feedback we should get to Scholastica?

[jchodera]

Change the logo when viewing an article to look more like a link/not blending into the background

Alternatively, an actual link that says [Back to articles] or something would also make it very obvious what to do to go back.

[davidlmobley]

@mrshirts - this is sitting idle. Is there anything we are able to do on this or is it something we have to bring up with Scholastica?

[mrshirts]

Sorry, this did get lost! Things we can do trivially: Put a small logo (fixed size) to the left of "LiveCoMS" (if we had a logo), or make it say something different (like the full name). We can change the color as well. Can't currently do: * change so it's a banner image in the background. * Have the authors names and title follow down. Thoughts?

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[dmzuckerman]

Logo is always good if we get one - and can we have this go on the little browser tab??

I like authors names and titles following - also a download link if possible.

[dmzuckerman]

Ideally, there should also be a 'How to cite' button/link.

BTW, if you look at our self-justifying editorial on Google Scholar, it doesn't seem to have a full citation in the 'cite' feature - i.e., no volume or whatever. I guess that will change for articles going forward?

[davidlmobley]

Agree logo would be good.

BTW, if you look at our self-justifying editorial on Google Scholar, it doesn't seem to have a full citation in the 'cite' feature - i.e., no volume or whatever. I guess that will change for articles going forward?

Yes, right; that's (at least) because it has no volume or page numbers (though maybe there are other reasons too?). :) Maybe we should put that into the first issue so it can have them.

[mrshirts]

We haven't assigned it an issue (or created any issues), so that's why it shows up w/o issue number. I'm investigating if we can publish an issue, and THEN add citations.

[mrshirts]

Aha, it looks like we CAN create an issue and then add afterwards. So we can create an issue, add this in, and then have it report that. We don't have access to Crossref yet, so we can't assign a journal specific DOI - that should come in a month or two.

[mrshirts]

I like authors names and titles following - also a download link if possible.
Don't count on this; they would have to change it at Scholastica.

and can we have this go on the little browser tab??

I'm not sure exactly which location you mean.

also a download link if possible.

A download link on the tab with the names (that doesn't exist yet)? Just want to be clear what is wanted.

[mrshirts]

So for an issue, we need:

• Volume (required)
• Issue Number (required)
• Year (required)

All of those are obvious!

Issue Image (required)
If we just want general fancy molecular picture for each issue, that's fine. We can perhaps have some sort of competition longer term.

Lede (required - 30 words)
Description of the issue (recommended)
​Title (recommended)

What would you all suggest here?
Here's some examples of how people are using these, and where they appear on the page, though it's not clear exactly which of these text fields are going where.
https://www.newlibs.org/issues

Though it's not clear most journals are using thesef eatures.

[dmzuckerman]

For issue image, why not tile some of the article images? That would be descriptive and maybe even cool.

[dmzuckerman]

little browswer tab

the tiny icon appearing to the left of the title on a tab of your browser - as in having many tabs open

moving download link

ideally, enabling download of article from any page in the article, without having to scroll to top ... but this should hardly be a priority!