[Web4lib] Cell And Elsevier > Article Of The Future

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Colleagues/

 

As I predicted in my recent Ireland presentations <<< The Paradigms They
Are A-Changin' > Open / Semantic / Social / Mobile >>>

 

[  http://tinyurl.com/pwp8nf  ] > !!! The Eclectic/Semantic Journal
Lives !!!

 

/Gerry 

 

Cell Press and Elsevier have launched a project called Article of the
Future that is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to
redefine how the scientific article is presented online. The project's
goal is to take full advantage of online capabilities, allowing readers
individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using
the latest advances in visualization techniques. We have developed
prototypes for two articles from Cell to demonstrate initial concepts
and get feedback from the scientific community.

 

KEY FEATURES OF THE PROTOTYPES

 

A hierarchical presentation of text and figures so that readers can
elect to drill down through the layers of content based on their level
of expertise and interest. This organizational structure is a
significant departure from the linear-based organization of a
traditional print-based article in incorporating the core text and
supplemental material within a single unified structure. 

 

A graphical abstract allows readers to quickly gain an understanding of
the main take-home message of the paper. The graphical abstract is
intended to encourage browsing, promote interdisciplinary scholarship
and help readers identify more quickly which papers are most relevant to
their research interests. 

 

Research highlights provide a bulleted list of the key results of the
article. 

 

Author-Affiliation highlighting makes it easy to see an author's
affiliations and all authors from the same affiliation. 

 

A figure that contains clickable areas so that it can be used as a
navigation mechanism to directly access specific sub-sections of the
results and figures. 

 

Integrated audio and video let authors present the context of their
article via an interview or video presentation and allow animations to
be displayed more effectively. 

 

The Experimental Procedures section contains alternate views allowing
readers to see a summary or the full details necessary to replicate the
experiment. 

 

A new approach to displaying figures allows the reader to identify
quickly which figures they are interested in and then drill down through
related supplemental figures. All supplemental figures are displayed
individually and directly linked to the main figure to which they are
related. 

 

Real-time reference analyses provide a rich environment to explore the
content of the article via the list of citations. 

 

Links To Two Working Protypes and The Press Release Are Available From 

 

[  http://tinyurl.com/mjotrw  ]

 

Enjoy !

 

/Gerry

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

 

There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying

 

The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed /

Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace