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Here are some helpful tips for finding your way round the bmj website.
We’ve now included a site map, which gives you links to all the main sections of the site.
You can find the site map at the bottom of every page.
This simple guide should also introduce you to the main features of the site.
Searching
Rapid responses
Table of content of current print issue
Online First articles
The Channels: News, Comment, Education, and Research
Resources for....
About BMJ
Subscribing to bmj.com
Registering for bmj.com services
Email alerts
Optimum screen sizes and browser support
Medline and Medline Plus
Every article page has a quick search box at the top of it.
This has replaced the keyword/author/volume search box at the top right of the page. Type in words (including authors' names) then click on the Go button to locate relevant articles. Quick search will look across all content and will deliver a broad set of results.
For specific searching, use the Advanced search box, you can find it by clicking on the word "Advanced", next to the quick search box. From Advanced search you can search by author's name, keyword, or citation. You can also include Online First articles in your search criteria.
Advanced search can extend your search across all Highwire hosted journals, allowing you to search all 1000 or just selected journals. It also derives a subject index of your search results. The index appears top right if you have sufficient results to generate this (requires more than 35 results).
There are also search boxes on the research, news, education and comment pages. These search boxes allow you to limit your search to specific types of article. Within Comment and Education, there is the ability to further narrow your search to individual article types, such as obituaries or clinical review.
You can access rapid responses in a number of ways, depending on whether you are interested in all responses over a specific period of time, or just those related to a particular article.
Links to responses relating to individual articles appear in the box at the top left of the article, if a rapid response has been submitted. Alternatively to save you time, set up a CiteTrack email alert which notifies you when a particular article has received a rapid response. To do this you need to register to receive alerts. Simply choose "Alert me when responses are posted" from the article in question and follow the registration procedure. If you have already registered sign in to bmj.com (if prompted) and save the your new CiteTrack alert, see the screenshot below.
You will find the articles with the most rapid responses are highlighted in a new rapid response box. Clicking on these links takes you to the articles, clicking the more button takes you to the list of all rapid responses.
To read all the rapid responses posted on the website over a particular period, click on the link to Rapid responses that appears when you run your mouse over the "Interactive" button at the top of the page.
On the home page, click on the image of the print cover or the words "Table of contents" immediately below it.
To get each week’s table of contents by email, why not register for the Online First email alert? First you need to register to receive alerts. Select the Get more from the BMJ link on the home page and complete the registration procedure. If you have already registered follow the change my preferences option and add the alert to those you have already set up.
You can also set up an RSS feed for our table of contents by selecting the RSS icon from any page on the site.If you are looking for an older issues, the entire archive can be accessed from the Print issues tab.
These are articles that have been posted on bmj.com ahead of print publication. Most of them report original research so are listed on the Research page. (The Research tab appears at the top of every page.)
To get updates on Online First articles, why not register for the Online First email alert? First you need to register to receive alerts. Select the Get more from the BMJ link on the home page and complete the registration procedure. If you have already registered follow the change my preferences option and add the alert to those you have already set up.
You can also set up an RSS feed for Online First articles by selecting the RSS icon from any page on the site.Alternatively, visit the Online first table of contents or follow the online first articles link from the site map at the bottom of each page.
There are four new sections to the site that organise the content based on the online delivery of the articles (research, news, education and comment pages) as opposed to the printed table of contents. As more content is delivered online only, and the site is updated daily compared to the weekly print, so this organisation will become more important in ensuring online readers can easily find the article they are interested in.
General and useful information for BMJ readers has now been separated into smaller resources sites, each aimed at an individual group of users. There are nine individual groupings:Authors - All of the information you need to submit a manuscript to BMJ
BMA members – explains the specific access rights
Readers – for further helpful tips on using the site
Reviewers – training materials and resources for peer reviewers of articles
Librarians – access to the librarian resource centre, manage your subscriptions across all BMJ journals
Media – access to press releases, and sign up for press access to the BMJ
Subscribers - full purchasing and pricing information
Advertisers – advertising rates and opportunities
Select the group that most represents what you need from the site using the drop down menu.
To find out more about the BMJ - its committees and policies – follow the link at the bottom of the page.
Full pricing information on subscribing to the BMJ in print or online, as well as information on buying access to articles online or reprints can be found in our Resources for subscribers section. Information is broken down into personal or institutional subscriptions.
If you are already a subscriber to bmj.com, and want to register for any of our free services, you can sign up for specific services such as receiving email alerts, downloading citations or saving articles to My folders, from any article. The Resources for Readers section describes the services you can register for, and provides links to the registration form. The email alerts sign up box on most pages will also take you to the registration form.
Our CiteTrack alerts have been highlighted above. The full list of alerts available including topic based alerts are available in Resources for readers.
You can also set up an RSS feed for the current or recent issues, or for Online First articles by selecting the RSS icon from any page on the site.
To meet the demands of an ever changing market bmj.com endeavours to support as many types of computer, browser and screen resolution as it can. Technology changes mean that to be in a position to deliver more dynamic and interactive content, we cannot continue support for older and slower machines, just as you cannot hear the full benefit of a surround sound DVD on a ten year old tv.
The current site is designed to be viewed at an optimum screen resolution of 1024x768. If your computer supports this size you can change to it by finding the display option in your control panel or settings area.
The browsers supported are listed in the help section, and are almost always most recent production release. Many older browsers will display bmj.com, but we do not guarantee that it will display as well as it might on a newer browser, this is especially true if an older browser does not support cascading style sheets (CSS). We provide links to the upgrade sites for all browsers we support. From the bmj.com help page, simply click on the name of your browser from the table at the bottom of the page.
Medline is listed under Resources for readers.
Medline Plus is listed under Resources for BMA members as it’s a benefit of BMA membership.
