The Enhanced PDF viewer (ePDF) is designed to provide an accessible, simple, and enhanced viewing experience for your academic content directly from your Web Browser. Below is the default view that is initially presented – loading time is minimal, and the first page of the article is displayed. At first glance, the embedded PDF looks very similar to a PDF viewed in the browser.
The below guide has been designed to walk new and veteran ReadCube users through the various features available when viewing content in the Web Reader. All ReadCube Web Reader features have an existing support article that go into more detail on how to use them properly.
Badge Features
The side panel can be opened by clicking on any of the icons in the vertical menu bar on the left side. The article view is automatically adjusted to fit the side panel when opened and includes the following features:
1.) Share a link to this article.
2.) View your notes. Learn more here.
3.) Figure viewer - view all figures in article. Learn more here.
4.) To go article main page/abstract
5.) View Altmetric data of article
6.) Export citation of article
7.) View related articles
In-article Features
These features relate to functionality available within the body of an article.
1.) Author Names.
2.) Inline References.
3.) Annotations & Highlighting.
Top Panel Features
The following features relate to the 6 buttons available at the top of the screen.
1.) View article within your ReadCube Library (not shown when user is viewing article through their ReadCube library)
2.) Download the PDF to your computer
3.) Add article to your ReadCube library (not shown when user is viewing article through their ReadCube library)
4.) View article supplements. Learn more here.
5.) View cited references
6.) View other articles who have cited that article.
