Monash Bioethics Review

The material published in Monash Bioethics Review is available on a subscription basis. Unless articles have been made 'open access'# you will need to be a subscriber to read the material published online in this journal. You will need 'Cookies' to be enabled to access this site.

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1) Navigating around the site to read the journal

After you have subscribed, log in to Monash Bioethics Review and click 'User Home' from the top navigation bar. This will take you to your personal home page within the site, that lists the journals you have subscribed to and the roles (such as author, reader, etc) that you have within these journals.

From this page click on the link 'Current' (in the top navigation bar) to see the lates issue published.
Alternatively, click on 'Archives' which will take you to the list of all the issues that have been published online, including the latest issue: click on the link to the issue that you want to read.

Important: if you happen to become 'lost' within the site - can't get to the journal content or information about the journal - click on 'User Home' from the top navigation bar, then click on the active link 'Monash Bioethics Review': from there, click on 'Current' or 'Archives' to view the journal content, or click on 'Home' to get to the home page of the journal.

For more information about navigating around the site:

TOP NAVIGATION
After you have logged in, on the top menu bar you will see links to: Home,  About,  User Home,  Search,  Current,  Archives  and  Announcements.
•    The 'Home' link is to the home page of this journal.
•    The 'About' page takes you to a list of links for various items about this journal, such as the Editorial team, the scope of the journal, the Copyright Notice and Privacy Policy, and so on.
•    The 'User Home' takes you to your own individual home page within the site as a whole (the site publishes more than one journal) rather than within the Monash Bioethics Review site. To get back to the Monash Bioethics Review home page, just click on the link 'Monash Bioethics Review' under the heading 'My Journals'. Note:  you can change your password from within User Home by clicking 'Change My Password', and you can update your contact details and affiliation (etc) here by clicking 'Edit My Profile'.
•    The 'Search' link is for searching for articles within Monash Bioethics Review.
•    The 'Current' link takes you to the cover image of the most recently published issue of Monash Bioethics Review, with a link to the 'Table of Contents' just above the image.
•    The 'Archives' link takes you to a list of all the published issues.
•    The 'Announcements' page takes you to a list of announcements published by either the Editor of Monash Bioethics Review.

RIGHT HAND NAVIGATION
The right hand navigation links are grouped into clusters.
•    Font size: you can increase or decrease the font size to suit your requirements.
•    User Information
'My Journals' – it is possible to subscribe to more than one journal on the site, hence this link: after logging in you would click ‘My journals’ to navigate to the particular journal you want to read.
 'My Profile' is where details such as your address, affiliation and email (etc) are stored; you can update these details here at any time.
•    Subscription information. (Your subscription information will be updated over the next few days.)
•    Information for the various types of users of the site: Readers, Authors, Librarians.
•    Journal Content: shortcuts to the Search function and for Browsing.
•    Journal Help. This is a link to the journal's Help files: by default, the Help page opens to topics relevant to the page from which Help was opened; however,  there is also a Search feature that enables you to search the entire Help document  for a specific topic. The Help function opens in a separate window.
•    Open Journal Systems. This link takes you to the creators of Open Journal Systems  (the publishing platform on which Monash Bioethics Review is published), the Public Knowledge Project.

READING JOURNAL CONTENT
Click on 'Current' or 'Archives' and navigate to the Table of Contents for the issue you wish to read. Where a cover image is displayed, the link to the Table of Contents will appear just above the image.

On the left hand side is a list of the contents. The blue links on the left take you to information about the article, such as author, abstract, references; there is also a link from this page to the PDF of the item. The link on the right page of the Table of Contents takes you directly to the PDF of the article.

When you first click on the PDF link, it will open up in a small window within the main frame of the screen. This can be a useful feature for mobile devices, but you may prefer to open the PDF in the full window, or to download the PDF. To do this, scroll down and click the link either to 'Download this PDF File' or to view in 'Fullscreen'.

Table of Contents notifications for new issues

We encourage readers to sign up for the publishing notification service for this journal. Use the Register link at the top of the home page for the journal. This registration will result in the reader receiving the Table of Contents by email for each new issue of the journal. This list also allows the journal to claim a certain level of support or readership. See the journal's Privacy Statement, which assures readers that their name and email address will not be used for other purposes.

# Open access material

Published material that is more than two years old may be made 'open access', meaning anyone can read it for free. You do not need to have a username or password to access this material.

From time to time, current articles or editorial material may also be made open access.