Navigating Reference and Related-Article Links
Using A "Second Browser Window"

General Information

Navigating reference links and related-article links in APS online journals may be made more efficient if the user opts to load documents targeted by such links into a "second" browser window. This will allow the user to maintain two views, for example: (1) the first, or "parent," window — containing the abstract whose reference section is being navigated — and (2) the "child" window — containing the initial target of the first reference link followed as well as those of any successive links followed.

This method can be used when following any of the material so-linked; that is, cross-journal links in reference sections, links to editorially related articles, links to articles that cite the article currently in view, and links to external databases. (Full descriptions of all of these linked items can be found by following the two links appearing directly above.)

How to Open a New Browser Window

GENERAL NOTE: To access the "menu" for opening a second browser window, PC/UNIX users must place the cursor over the link to be loaded into the new window and click on the right-hand mouse button; Mac users must place the cursor over the link and click and hold the mouse button until the menu appears. Proceed as follows:

• Netscape and MSIE (all platforms):
  
  

  Step 1: Position the cursor over the link you wish to follow and load into a second browser.

  Step 2: Use the mouse to "activate" the menu.

  Step 3: Select Open in New Window or Open Link in New Window (wording may vary between platforms and/or versions of browsers).

  Step 4: The target of the link will be loaded into the second browser.

The following example illustrates what a user would see in most browsers (the screen capture depicts a reference section viewed using Netscape 4.x for Windows95) after following steps 1 – 3:

In this example, the user has opted to follow the [online] reference link appearing in Ref. 2 and load the target document into a new browser by selecting "Open in New Window" from the menu. The user's desktop would then contain the "parent" browser window (containing the abstract initially viewed) and a second ("child") browser window (containing the document targeted by the reference link). Any successive links that the user chose to follow from the child window would load in the child window. In this way, users can generally use the parent window as the "anchor" for whatever "trail" of reference links they chose to follow via the child window.