Developing PJ Online

Those of you who make regular use of PJ Online will, by now, have noticed that we have made some changes. Some have been our own ideas, but we have also responded to your suggestions.

Over the past year we’ve received various comments from users about their likes and dislikes of the new website. Some comments have been very positive, some have included useful suggestions and some have just been plain negative. But comments will always be welcome because how else are we to know what you want from PJ Online.

So, you can now get ordered lists of everything we upload in seven-day chunks and pages giving the most significant contents of The Pharmaceutical Journal and Clinical Pharmacist on an issue-by-issue basis. We’ve also moved original papers into a more appropriate location in our Learning & development section.

We’ve started to build up a library of information that will be of use to job-seekers that includes information about various employers and parts of the country (soon to appear in the PJ careers section) to help you decide who you might want to work for and where you might prefer to live. Also in the PJ careers section there are new subsections to help pharmacists run their businesses better and to help those who have taken a creer break return to work. We’ve also made it easier to find our advanced search and citation search pages and have brightened up many parts of the website with more pictures.

And that just to start with. We’ll soon be uploading our entire back catalogue of CPD articles — we always intended to do this and would have liked to have done so much sooner.

A number of other improvements are being planned and will be pushed through as quickly as possible.

When we relaunched PJ Online a year ago, we knew that we were taking the first steps on a road towards delivering a website that served the needs of its users, rather than our needs as a publisher. Our guiding philosophy was — and will remain — that PJ Online is a work in progress and that there is always something we can make better. So tell us what you need and we’ll see whether we can do it.

Michael Thompson

Editor