Cancer Cell Online Help

Using Cancer Cell Online

The following topics explain how to use the features of Cancer Cell Online and cover

• receiving email alerts
• accessing the archive of all online issues and summaries
• viewing the twenty most frequently accessed article
• commenting on an article
• accessing supplemental data
• viewing online figures

Receiving email alerts

An email alert is a message that you can receive free of charge each time a new issue of an online Cell Press journal is published. You need to be a Registered User or Subscriber to Cancer Cell Online to receive email alerts.

You can choose to receive email alerts for any set of online Cell Press journals. Two types of email alert are available:

• content, containing the full table of contents for the journal
• notification, stating that a new issue of the journal is available and giving you its URL.

To sign up for email alerts, or to amend your email alert options:

1. Register as a user of Cancer Cell Online, if you are not already a Registered User or Subscriber, by clicking the Register button in the Sign In box, in the top right of all Cancer Cell Online pages until you sign in, and then filling in the short questionnaire.
2. Sign in, if you have not already.
3. Click the  black Email Alert button at the top of all pages..

You will see a table of the email alerts for which you can sign up.

4. Click the checkboxes to set the email alert options you want. If you want to unsubscribe completely from email alerts, uncheck all checkboxes.
5. Click the Submit button.

Accessing the archive of all online issues and summaries

1. Click the black Archive button in the navigation bar at the top all pages of all Cancer Cell Online pages.

   Your browser displays the archive front page.

2. Do one of the following:
   
   
   • click the cover of the current issue, or one of the three next most recent issues of Cancer CellOnline, to access its table of contents
   • use the two fields in the 'Issue by Month' box to select the month you are interested in, and then click the Select Issue button to access a list of links to issues published that month
   • click any year in the ' 'Full text and summaries' table to access a table of all online issues for that year, then select an issue by clicking on the link you require.

Once the table of all online issues/summaries is displayed, simply click one of the arrows on either side of the year to view the previous/next year:

Your browser displays the Table of Contents for the issue you selected.

3. From the Table of Contents you can:
   
   
   • click any 'Full Text' link, if available, to access the corresponding article
   • click any 'Summary' link, to access a summary of the corresponding article
   • click one of the Browse Archive buttons, under the cover of the currently selected issue, to access the table of contents of the previous/next issue directly.

Viewing the twenty most frequently accessed articles

To access a list of the twenty articles which have been downloaded the most: Click the 'Top 20 Articles' link on the Cancer Cell Online home page. Your browser displays a list of the most frequently accessed articles, starting with the most popular article.

Providing comments on an article

The editors of the journal select articles to which readers can add comments, which are highlighted on the journal's home page or on the page for the Table of Contents.

To be able to add comments to an article you must first have signed in as either a Subscriber or Registrant with your User name and Password. You can add a comment by clicking on the Add a comment link that appears in the Article Comments section of the Article Options box on either the Summary or Fulltext version of the paper. You will then be taken to a form where you enter your name, email address, affiliation, provide a title for your comment, and enter a comment that can be up to 2000 characters (including spaces). You will be given the opportunity to preview your comment before submitting it.

To view comments that have been submitted on an article, click on the View Comments link.

Accessing supplemental data

Supplemental data is online material (for example, video or more detailed experimental procedures) that is not available in the printed version of Cancer Cell.

You do not need to be a Subscriber or Registered User to access supplemental data.

To access supplemental data, click one of the following:

• a ‘Supplemental Data’ link in a table of contents
• a ‘Supplemental Data’ link in an article
• the ‘Select an Issue from the Archive’ link on the Cancer Cell Online home page, then the ‘Index of Supplemental Data’ link.

Viewing online figures

The figures in Cancer Cell Online articles are available in three versions with differing resolutions. The higher the resolution of a figure, the longer it will take to be loaded into your browser.

The three versions, in order of increasing resolution, are

• thumbnail, which is included in the full text of an article. Its small size means that it loads quickly into your browser.

• intermediate resolution, which includes the legend for the figure. To view this version of a figure, click one of the following links, as appropriate:

  • ‘In This Window’ to view this version of the figure in the current browser window

  • ‘In New Window’ to view this version of a figure in a new browser window

• high resolution, which shows more detail than is visible on the intermediate version. To view this version of a figure, click the ‘View Larger Version of Figure’ link. The figure will open in your current browser window.

In most cases, you will not want to view the high resolution version of a figure, as its size means that it is slow to load and you may have to use scrollbars to see the whole image in your browser window.

To return to the article from the intermediate or high resolution version of a figure, click the ‘Return to Article’ link.

If you have started a new browser window, simply close the second window by clicking the button at the window’s top right corner instead of using the ‘Return to Article’ link.

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