Cell Metabolism Online Help

Accessing Cell Metabolism Online

The following topics explain how to access the features of Cell Metabolism Online and cover:

• requirements for accessing Cell Metabolism Online
• the different types of access that are available
• signing in and out of Cell Metabolism Online
• how to maintain your registration details and user information
• subscribing to Cell Metabolism Online or Cell Metabolism

Requirements for access

To use Cell Metabolism Online effectively, you will need to:

• use the recommended version of your web browser
• enable the acceptance of cookies by your browser.

Supported browsers

Cell Metabolism Online aims always to support the current and immediately preceding production versions of:

• Mozilla Firefox

• Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files created by our server and stored on your computer. A cookie acts as a digital name tag which identifies you to our content server as a subscriber or registrant.

Your browser preferences must be set to accept cookies before you can sign in to Cell Metabolism Online. Refer to your browser’s documentation for further information.

We use cookies so that, once you have signed in, you can move between pages at Cell Metabolism Online without having to sign in at each page.

We do not use cookies to monitor:

• what other sites you have visited
• any personal or confidential information about you.

We delete all our cookies when you sign out. Furthermore, the cookie information created in your browser is destroyed when you quit your browser.

Types of access

There are three types of user who can access content at Cell Metabolism Online:

• Registered User
• Individual Subscriber
• Institutional Licensee.

In addition, all visitors to the Cell Metabolism Online site can access:

• the summaries of all Cell Press journals
• the featured article in the current issue of Cell Metabolism
• the article that has beens elected for comments
• web-based supplemental data (for example, animations or video sequences)
• Tables of Contents for all archived issues of Cell Metabolism Online
• search facilities
• RSS feeds

Registered User

If you do not yet subscribe either to the printed version of Cell Metabolism or to Cell Metabolism Online, you can become a Registered User by filling out a short questionnaire. You must also create a User Name and Password, which will then entitle you to:

• receive free email alerts whenever a new issue of a Cell Press journal is published online
• comment on an editorially-selected article
• have 24 hour access to any Cell Metabolism Online article, including the PDF version, for $30(US).

Individual Subscriber

You can become an individual subscriber if you are:

• not a subscriber to the printed version of Cell Metabolism (by paying the appropriate subscription fee)
• a subscriber to the printed version of Cell Metabolism (by entering your subscription code to activate your free online access).

In either case, you must create a User Name and Password, which will then a entitle you to:

• search, read, and print all the articles and summaries at Cell Metabolism Online
• receive email alerts whenever a new issue of a Cell Press journal is published online.

Your subscription will last for at least a year and you will be reminded to renew your subscription before it expires.

To access the content, you need to sign in with your username and password. If you are not signed in with your User Name and Password, clicking on a full-text or pdf link, will take you to the content on ScienceDirect where your User Name and Password will not work.

Institutional Licensee

Institutions can obtain site licenses for Cell Metabolism Online  by contacting our Online Publisher or by getting in touch with their Elsevier account manager. The content for institutional users is served from ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com). If you are not signed in as an Individual Subscriber, clicking on a full text or pdf link will take you through to the content on ScienceDirect. If your institution has a license to Cell Press titles, you will automatically get through to the content.

Individuals at institutions that have a site license do not need to sign in as access is granted through IP authentication.

To maintain your own, individual email alerts, if you are a user at a licensed institution:

1. Enter your user name and password in the logbox at the top of the page. Click on the link "View/Change personal Information and Issue Alerts".
2. Register as a new user by clicking the Register button in the top right hand corner of each page.

Signing in and out

This topic explains what is involved in:

• signing in to Cell Metabolism Online
• signing out of Cell Metabolism Online.

Signing in

Signing in to Cell Metabolism Online is the act of entering your User Name and Password. You can do this when you select a feature at Cell Metabolism Online that requires you to be a Registered User or an Individual Subscriber, or beforehand.

If you are:

• a Registered User of Cell Metabolism Online, signing in enables you to:
  • maintain your email alert options
  • comment on editorially selected articles

     

• an Individual Subscriber, signing in enables you to access the features described above, as well as the full text of all articles at Cell Metabolism Online. If you are not signed in and click on a full text or pdf link, you will be redirected to the abstract on ScienceDirect. Clicking on the link, Access  Personal Subscription to Cell Metabolism, will allow you to sign in to the Cell Press site
• an Institutional Licensee, you do not need to sign in, as your access to Cell Metabolism Online is granted through IP authentication at ScienceDirect. However, you can sign in as a Registered User to maintain your email alerts.

Your browser preferences must be set to accept cookies before you can sign in.

If you are having trouble signing in, the problem might be that:

• you have entered your User Name or Password incorrectly. Your Password is case sensitive (for example, if your password is cells, the site will not accept Cells)
• you have not yet activated your subscription
• your browser isn’t accepting, or can’t accept, cookies
• a proxy server or a program you are running on your computer is deleting cookies
• the date on your computer is incorrectly set.

Recovering your Sign-in details

To recover your Password, click the 'Password Reminder' link at the top right of all Cell Metabolism Online pages until you sign in. If you have forgotten:

• your User Name, we can email it to you
• your Password, we cannot recover it. You will receive a new randomly generated Password, which you can then change.

If you have forgotten your Subscription Number, and you subscribe:

• to the printed version of Cell Metabolism, you can find your Subscription Number on your mailing label, between the # and / symbols

Signing out

Signing out is the method you should use to end a session of accessing Registered User or Subscriber content at Cell Metabolism Online.

When you sign out from Cell Metabolism Online:

• nobody using your computer can access the features available to you as a Registered User or Subscriber
• nobody using your computer can amend your user details
• all cookies created on your system by Cell Metabolism Online are deleted.

If other people can use your computer, you should make sure you sign out when you are finished using Cell Metabolism Online, to prevent others from amending your user details.

To sign out from Cell Metabolism Online, you can simply shut down your browser, or click the ‘Sign Out’ link that, while you are signed in, is visible under the black navigation buttons at the top of all pages.

Maintaining registration details and user information

After you sign in to Cell Metabolism Online as either a Registered User or a Subscriber, links that will allow you to amend your Cell Metabolism Online user details and password appear at the top of the screen on all pages .

After you sign out, these options are removed from the screen. To prevent others from amending your user details, you should always sign out if you are leaving your computer unattended.

You can click the:

• ‘Password’ link to assign yourself a new Password. You must enter your new Password twice to confirm the change
• ‘Your Details ’ link to tell us about a change of name or address

Subscribing

To subscribe to Cell Metabolism Online or to the printed Cell Metabolism:

1. Access the home page.
2. Click the Subscribe button at the top left-hand side of the page. It looks like this:

   Your browser displays the subscriptions page, with:

   • links to the different types of subscription, with descriptions of the types of subscriptions

   • a table detailing the prices of the different types of subscription.

3. Choose the subscription type you require and click the associated link.

   When your subscription ends, you can renew it or choose new subscription details.

   Your browser displays the appropriate subscriptions page.

4. Fill in your contact and payment details.
5. Click either the:
   • Submit order button, to subscribe, or
   • Clear button, to cancel the form.

See Also:

Receiving email alerts Register Subscribe Forgotten your Username or Password ? View or change your personal information

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