Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced the start of its article evolution programme, a new project designed to improve the online delivery of research articles, enabling readers to interact with research in new ways.
The first online release from the project has already gone live providing an enhanced HTML view for all new published articles in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
This enhanced view improves the appearance of an article and increases the potential ways the reader can interact with research online. This includes the ability to zoom in and out of images, making it easier to look at complex details and structures and export them into presentations. Video abstracts are now embedded within the enhanced HTML article and the option to view mathematics using MathJax technology has also been made available for the first time on IOPscience.
In order to make these changes possible, IOP has harnessed the power of XML by investing in MarkLogic technology.
All other IOP-owned and selected partner journals will adopt the new enhanced article view and features for their 2012 volumes. Initial feedback from researchers collaborating on the project has been positive. IOP is now seeking feedback from the wider community.
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