School Nutrition Goes Digital!

Can’t wait until your issue of School Nutrition magazine arrives in your mailbox each month? Starting January 2012, you now have a new way to access your favorite professional development magazine. School Nutrition has launched a digital edition, available through the web at SchoolNutrition.org. This additional service—you will still receive your print magazine each month—is being made available to SNA members at no charge. The digital edition is a complete replica of the print issue—cover to cover.

Why digital? SNA knows that its members find School Nutrition to be one of the most valuable benefits of your national membership, and we want to ensure that it’s available to you in multiple formats to best meet your reading needs and preferences. Maybe you want to start reading an article at home in your living room, but finish it up at a computer at work. Can’t wait for the mail to deliver your print copy? Read the magazine online first and then save your print edition for future reference.

School Nutrition’s new digital edition also offers some fun features. For example, a search function allows you to type in a key word or phrase—say, “low-sodium”—and instantly see a list of live links to every reference found throughout the issue, including advertisements. This could be helpful if you are trying to do a quick search for available products to meet certain nutrition specifications, as well as to find editorial content on a hot topic! Indeed, all the web links in the magazine will be live. Want to check out a research report mentioned in a NewsBites item? No need to carefully type out long web addresses filled with random letters and symbols; simply click and you are there. And if you want to bring an article or ad to the attention of a colleague or supervisor? Bypass the copy machine; you can turn to an easy e-mail function.

At this time, the digital edition is available via web browsers; a mobile app is under consideration for the future. Each issue will be available to all visitors to SchoolNutrition.org for two months; after that time, SNA members will have exclusive access to the archives. Take some time this month to visit www.schoolnutrition.org/snmagazine and give the digital version of School Nutrition a test-drive.