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Major Features of Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online

CiteTrack		Track the topics, authors and articles important to you
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Pay for Access		Access a single article or all content
Cross-Journal Searching		Search across multiple journals
Inter-Journal Links		Hyperlink from reference citations to the articles to which they refer
Exporting Citations		Acquire article citations in the Medlars format
Viewing Figures		View the 3 versions of figures online
Printing		HTML and PDF versions of most articles are available
Browsing		View the contents of Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online
Searching		Search the contents of Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online

CiteTrack

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Pay for Access

You can purchase access to individual Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online articles. Browse through the available online content and select the article you want access to. When you are prompted to sign in, select the "Pay per Article" option.

You can purchase access to all content in Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online. At any point when you are prompted to sign in to Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online, select the "Pay for Admission" option.

Cross-Journal Searching

Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online lets you search across multiple journals.

After performing a search in Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online, you can perform the same search in other journals through the "pulldown menu" at the top of the search result page entitled "Try this search in:..." Selecting a journal title and clicking the "Search" button will start a search using the previously specified criteria in the selected journal.

Alternatively, you can return to the search page and click the 'Search multiple journals' link. You will go to a page where you can perform one search which will be applied to multiple online journals in a single step.

Inter-Journal Links

So that you can quickly and easily move from articles to the full text of cited references, we have created hyperlinks from reference citations to the articles to which they refer.

When an article in Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online cites an article from another HighWire-hosted journal, hyperlinks have been created which allow you to move from the original article to the abstract of the cited article. Likewise, links have been created to allow users of other HighWire-hosted journals to quickly and easily access Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online articles. [List of Participating Journals]

These Inter-Journal links take you to the abstract of the cited reference. Limited free access may be granted to allow you free use of the single article which was cited by the original article.

Exporting Citations

We provide a simple and direct method of acquiring article citations in the Medlars format compatible with import into personal bibliographic management software such as EndNote, Reference Manager, or ProCite.

To export citations with Abstracts for any Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online article to a citation manager program, the following steps are suggested:

1. View the abstract or Full Text article of interest

2. Click the [Download to Citation Manager] link above the article title.

3. When the tagged version of the citation is displayed, scroll until the "Save" button can be seen.

4. Select your preferred format (Macintosh, PC or Unix) from the "Save" menu and click the Save button.

5. Select the directory you wish to save the file in and give the file a unique name.

6. Follow the instructions that came with your citation manager to import the reference into your personal bibliographic database

If your citation manager does not support import of Medlars format, you may still use the Download function. After saving the citation to your local disk, open the citation file and manually copy/paste the information in the file into the appropriate fields in your personal bibliographic database.

Viewing Figures

Thumbnail Images:

A "thumbnail" -- a small version -- of each figure or equation appears in the text. In most cases, these thumbnails are sufficient to permit you to decide if you want to see the larger version(s).

Medium-Sized Images:

Clicking on a thumbnail opens a second window in your browser that displays a larger version of a table or figure, as well as the complete text of the figure's caption. You don't need any additional software to view this medium-size image.

Large, High-Resolution Images:

To view a high-resolution version of a figure, click on the medium-sized image or the link to "[View Larger Version of this Image]". Browsers can be used to view high-resolution images, but we recommend using a helper application instead. Read about obtaining and configuring a graphics viewer under the appropriate section: Macintosh, Windows, or Unix.

Printing

• Articles: Print the "Reprint (PDF) Version of this article" version for output that closely resembles the paper version of Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online.

• Abstracts, tables of contents, search results: Use your browser's Print function.

• High-Resolution figures: JPEGView for Macintosh or LViewPro for Windows.

Please see Help with Printing for more detailed information.

Browsing

To view the contents of the current issue, click on the "Current Issue" link on the home page. The table of contents also includes a link to an index of authors for the current issue.

To view the contents of any online issue, click the "Archive" button at the top of most pages. This will display a list of the issues that are available for browsing.

To search the contents of all online issues, click the "Search" button at the top of most pages.

When viewing the table of contents for an online issue, you can search for words in the text of the articles in that issue by entering words in the search box and clicking the Enter button. Read Help with Searching to learn how searching works in Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online.

To view contents of upcoming issues, click on the "View Future Titles" link on the home page. You can then use the Find function in your browser to find words in the titles listed in the table of contents.

To see an article, click on its [Full Text] link. To see one Abstract, click on its [Abstract] link. To review many Abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want and click Get All Checked Abstract(s).

Searching

Please see Help with Searching for detailed information on searching Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online.

To search Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences Online, enter search terms in the spaces provided. Select a date range if desired. Note that if you do not change the date range provided, your search will cover all available issues. Click the Start Search button.

Titles of articles retrieved as a result of searching are returned in relevance ranked order. The "closest matches" will be articles that match more of your search terms, that match your terms more closely, that have more occurrences of any one term, and that have occurrences earlier in the Abstract or article. You have several choices as to the number of "closest matches" retrieved.

In the list of titles retrieved by your search, To see one Abstract, click on its [Abstract] link. To review many Abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want and click on Get All Checked Abstract(s).