Bringing Digital Science Deep Inside the Scientific Article: the Elsevier Article of the Future Project

Authors

  • IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg Elsevier
  • Sophia Atzeni Elsevier
  • Hylke Koers Elsevier
  • Beate Specker Elsevier
  • Elena Zudilova-Seinstra Elsevier

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.8446

Keywords:

content innovation, research data, data linking, 3D visualization, content enrichment, text mining

Abstract

The ICT revolution of the last decades impacted scientific communication as it has impacted many other forms of communications, changing the way in which articles are delivered and how they can be discovered. However, the impact of ICT on the research itself has been much more profound, introducing digital tools to the way in which researchers gather data, perform analyses, and exchange results. This brought new, digital forms of research output, and disseminating those calls for changes deeply impact the core format of the scientific article.

In 2009, Elsevier introduced the “Article of the Future” project to define an optimal way for the dissemination of science in the digital age, and in this paper we discuss three of its key dimensions. First we discuss interlinking scientific articles and research data stored with domain-specific data repositories — such interlinking is essential to interpret both article and data efficiently and correctly. We then present easy-to-use 3D visualization tools embedded in online articles: a key example of how the digital article format adds value to scientific communication and helps readers to better understand research results. The last topic covered in this paper is automatic enrichment of journal articles through text-mining or other methods. Here we share insights from a recent survey on the question: how can we find a balance between creating valuable contextual links, without sacrificing the high-quality, peer-reviewed status of published articles?

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Published

2014-04-15

How to Cite

Bringing Digital Science Deep Inside the Scientific Article: the Elsevier Article of the Future Project. (2014). LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 23(4), 274-299. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.8446