Starting with the April issue of MPMI, papers will be published in full-text html online using an XML-first workflow. XML, or extensible markup language, is a web-specific language for presenting information effectively on the Internet. This move to XML will bring significant improvements.

• Full indexing and easy discovery: Going forward, the whole article will be more easily indexed by search engines, including text, figures, and tables, which will beavailable for browsing and indexing on interactive webpages. Thus, search engines like Google will be able to retrieve contents from all portions of a paper.
• Social media sharing: Full-text html makes it easy to share any portions of an article on social media like Twitter or Scoop.It.
• Faster turnaround times with “Ahead of Print:”  In the past, MPMI’s editorial workflow involved creating articles for print and posting PDF articles online when eachmonthly issue was ready. Now full-text html and fully-formatted PDFs will be published ahead of print shortly after authors approve their article proofs. Formatting is partially automated, and copyediting and figure preparations occur in parallel. Furthermore, MPMI’s XML service provider, Dartmouth Journal Services, also provides MPMI with the ability to automate billing and galley proofing in an integrated step. These two changes will decrease the time from acceptance to print by several weeks. Implementation will continue over the next several months, and speed to publication will improve. Once we are at full speed, articles may be published online as quickly as 24 hours after author galleys are approved.
• Better presentation on mobile devices: More of us are reading our journals on mobile devices. The new full-text html formatting will enhance this practice. Of course you will still be able to print or view a PDF of any article.

As part of our effort to establish similar formats across all three of the APS print journals, including MPMI, some of our guidelines​ have changed. For example, authors may have already noticed that we now use the “Harvard style” for references.

Upgrading to this new platform will also allow us to incorporate more features for the journal and more abilities for the user.  In the future, you will be able to bypass the abstract and jump from a search result in Web of Science or PubMed directly to the full-text article, if your institution has access to MPMI. The platform will take users quickly to the fullest content available.

Authors will also benefit. In addition to seeing who cites MPMI articles, MPMI has added “Altmetrics” for article level metrics that show how often articles are shared on social media. So please tweet and share interesting MPMI articles with your colleagues.

We are excited to see these changes implemented and hope you will like them. Please view the April issues and submit your next paper to MPMI. Contact myself, our editorial board, or MPMI staff if you have other suggestions regarding the MPMI journal.

By Jane Glazebrook, Editor-in-Chief, MPMI​​

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