Welcome, dear reader, to the "new" JOMA, now reborn as an in-house publication at MAA, and with a new and fresh design. In these brief notes, I will offer a brief guide to navigating the site -- and let the content speak for itself. The Related Articles at the left of this page highlight "what's new".
You may have found us either by way of the MAA Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (mathdl.org) or by going directly to joma.org. Either way, notice that there are two MathDL links at the top of every page, the logo at the left and text at the right. In the center of the header you'll find a logo and link for MAA -- a message from our sponsor.
The primary tools for navigating the site are in the left-hand column -- starting with the search/browse tool. The category, subject, and keyword searches are always visible. And there is a link to the Advanced Search page, where you may also search by author or publication date. The only requirement for search, whether on the home page or the advanced page, is that you choose something . You can't literally search for the contents of the entire site.
In time, this search capability will reach all of JOMA -- for now, it includes only the new (Volume 4) content and a little of the archival content. More on Page 3 about the archives for our first three volumes.
The JOMA categories will be familiar to return visitors: Articles, Modules, Mathlets, Reviews, Developers' Area. But you won't see the familiar linear Table of Contents with items listed under category headers -- so use a category search if you want to find, say, all the modules.
The subject descriptions come from the first two levels of a Subject Taxonomy, for which there is a link in the list below the Search box on the JOMA home page. If you're not sure what's included in a given subject description, you may want to consult the Taxonomy page to explore the lower levels.
In the main (and most obvious) part of the JOMA home page you will see our Featured Items, which may change frequently. At the moment, all of the new content is "featured", in part because we have been working off line for the first half of this year. In general, the most recent postings will appear at the top of the featured list, but we can feature older items as well -- for example, if they are related in some way to new content. Features are not necessarily ordered by category, but the brief text descriptions will usually identify their categories.
Welcome, dear reader, to the "new" JOMA, now reborn as an in-house publication at MAA, and with a new and fresh design. In these brief notes, I will offer a brief guide to navigating the site -- and let the content speak for itself. The Related Articles at the left of this page highlight "what's new".
You may have found us either by way of the MAA Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (mathdl.org) or by going directly to joma.org. Either way, notice that there are two MathDL links at the top of every page, the logo at the left and text at the right. In the center of the header you'll find a logo and link for MAA -- a message from our sponsor.
The primary tools for navigating the site are in the left-hand column -- starting with the search/browse tool. The category, subject, and keyword searches are always visible. And there is a link (The link is obsolete and has been removed, ed. 2014.) to the Advanced Search page, where you may also search by author or publication date. The only requirement for search, whether on the home page or the advanced page, is that you choose something . You can't literally search for the contents of the entire site.
In time, this search capability will reach all of JOMA -- for now, it includes only the new (Volume 4) content and a little of the archival content. More on Page 3 about the archives for our first three volumes.
The JOMA categories will be familiar to return visitors: Articles, Modules, Mathlets, Reviews, Developers' Area. But you won't see the familiar linear Table of Contents with items listed under category headers -- so use a category search if you want to find, say, all the modules.
The subject descriptions come from the first two levels of a Subject Taxonomy, for which there is a link in the list below the Search box on the JOMA home page. If you're not sure what's included in a given subject description, you may want to consult the Taxonomy page to explore the lower levels.
In the main (and most obvious) part of the JOMA home page you will see our Featured Items, which may change frequently. At the moment, all of the new content is "featured", in part because we have been working off line for the first half of this year. In general, the most recent postings will appear at the top of the featured list, but we can feature older items as well -- for example, if they are related in some way to new content. Features are not necessarily ordered by category, but the brief text descriptions will usually identify their categories.
Once you select an article, module, mathlet, etc., the appearance of the page changes somewhat. Of course, you are already seeing those changes with this document, but I will continue to point out a few features and functions.
The Search box remains, but below it you see descriptions and links to related materials (if any). These Notes link to new content, but future Notes, might link, for example, to earlier Notes.
In the main body of the page, your eye may be drawn first to the navigation box in the upper right corner, which includes forward/back buttons and options for a "printer friendly" version (meaning all pages in one document), e-mailing a link to a friend, and your personal "bookshelf" (a collection of bookmarks, not books).
At the top of each content page, you will see the category and subjects for the item -- linked to lists of all the other items with the same assignments. The rest of the links on each page should be self-explanatory. The bottom of the starting page will usually contain a linked Table of Contents, and the bottom of every page will have numbered links to all other pages (if the document has more than one page), plus a text link to the next page (if any).
Most items (articles, modules, etc.) link to supplementary pages -- sometimes in our database, sometimes on other sites -- that open new browser windows. These pages are not included among the numbered pages, and their appearance is not goverened by the "main page" rules. In particular, they have no "next" or "previous" pages -- but sometimes a "close window" button. Of course, you can always close the window in the usual way -- or leave it open and go back to the main window.
JOMA is now in its fourth year (volume), and the previous volumes currently reside on a different site. For the years 2001-2003, MathDL (including JOMA) was hosted by Math Forum , to whom we say "thank you" for supporting us through our infancy.
In time -- soon, we hope -- all of the archived material will be reformatted and moved to this site. When that happens, it can all be accessed through our new Search/Browse facility. In the interim, we will link to the archived material at Math Forum.
On the JOMA home page, you will see an Archive link in the left column. (That link is obsolete. It has been replaced by a link to the new JOMA Tables of Contents page, ed. 2014) That link takes you to a page that explains how our interim archive works. It also links to tables of contents for the first three volumes. The links from the TOC pages go to the front pages of the individual items still housed at Math Forum. From those front pages on, all internal links are relative, so navigation should proceed normally, even though the name joma.org has been moved to this site.
During the transition, as items are brought in-house, they may show up in both places -- via Archive links to Math Forum, and via Search/Browse on this site. Once the transition is complete, the Archive will be switched to in-house links -- and I will announce the change in a future edition of these Notes.