Here at Elsevier, the journal homepages have a new section for content innovation. As you know, content innovations are available on ScienceDirect to enhance the article's value and engage its readers.
We are happy to announce that the Virtual Microscope won a Prose award last week for best new eProduct.
The Virtual Microscope is fully integrated with ScienceDirect and appears alongside articles that contain high resolution slide images.
Authors of selected Elsevier journals are invited to complement conventional (low-res) slide images in their papers with high resolution whole slide scan equivalents for use with the Virtual Microscope. Once publications containing the high resolution slides are online, users are then able to view these using a standard browser. The Virtual Microscope offers features such as zoom, pan and rotate for convenient access to slides at the highest resolution.
The in-article viewer ( as shown below at the right-hand-side of the screen ) is fully interactive, and enables users to zoom in and navigate within the slide image alongside the article:
The Virtual Microscope can be used in full screen mode as shown in below example:
The Virtual Microscope application has been developed in collaboration with Kitware SAS
Online examples:
For any questions, please contact virtualmicroscope@elsevier.com