An overview from our editor-in-chief of what you can find on AJN’s home page.

As many of you might know, the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) has been providing nurses with information since 1900, when AJN first appeared in nurses’ mailboxes. Now, when people want information, they’re more likely to head online and search for information.

Print subscriptions at many publications have declined, supplanted by the demand for online content, and most journals, AJN included, have been part of this trend. Many journals now have interactive sites hosting not only the monthly or weekly journal issue content, but supplemental digital content that includes videos (for practical, “how to” information, you can’t beat videos to show step-by-step procedures), webinars, and podcasts (and of course, links to blogs and other social media channels).

So for those of you who may not have visited us in a while (or, who knows, maybe never!), here’s a summary of what you can access on AJN’s website, AJN Online.

On the home page, you’ll find the journal’s featured articles for the month. Most of these, including the CE article or articles of the month, are usually free to read.

Under the Articles & Issues tab at the top left of the home page, you can find the archives, including every issue published since the first issue in October 1900. (We often reprint articles from our archives to illustrate how far nursing has evolved—or hasn’t evolved, in some cases—since those early days.)

Under the Collections tab, you can browse multiple topical groupings of content from clinical articles to “how to” articles and series on writing for scholarly publications, conducting research, and implementing evidence-based practice.

Under the Multimedia tab, you’ll find webinars, videos and podcasts.

Videos include video abstracts by authors of research articles, a multiyear initiative in collaboration with AARP that produced videos to support family caregivers, as well as other video series on caring for older adults. Podcasts include monthly highlights, Behind the Article podcasts (interviews with authors), Conversations (interviews with key figures on important topics in nursing and health care), and Reflections (readings of our monthly narrative writing column, Reflections). There are also interviews with nurses giving firsthand accounts of experiences in disasters, or stories and poems by nurses who served in Vietnam.

At the journal home page, you can also access, via the For Authors and Journal Info tabs at the top, author guidelines and information about the journal (policies, staff, editorial board, contact information, faculty information, and awards programs).

And here on AJN’s award-winning blog AJN Off the Charts you can scroll down to see what your colleagues are reading and what’s new (subscribe via the field in the right sidebar to receive new posts in your email inbox). Other social media options are our Twitter feed, @AmJNurs, which has over 55,000 followers and our Facebook account, @AJNfans.

So yes, we’ve diversified our content portfolio—and we are much more than “just” a journal. Feel free to let us know if there’s anything you’d like to see more of, whether in terms of content topics or modes of online presentation.