The traditional structure of the research article has been honed and perfected for over 350 years by its custodians, the publishers of scientific journals. Nowadays, for some journals at least, it might be viewed as much as a profit centre as the perfected mechanism for scientific communication. Here I take a look at the components of such articles to try to envisage its future, with the focus on molecules and chemistry.
Posts Tagged ‘Scientific Journal’
Re-inventing the anatomy of a research article.
Saturday, December 29th, 2018Tags:Academic publishing, Acrobat, Articles, chemical discoveries, Chemical IT, data, Data management, ELN, Information, Molecules, Narrative, PDF, Publishing, Research, Scholarly communication, Science, Scientific Journal, Scientific method, Technical communication, Technology/Internet, Web browser
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Ten years on: Jmol and WordPress.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018Ten years are a long time when it comes to (recent) technologies. The first post on this blog was on the topic of how to present chemistry with three intact dimensions. I had in mind molecular models, molecular isosurfaces and molecular vibrations (arguably a further dimension). Here I reflect on how ten years of progress in technology has required changes and the challenge of how any necessary changes might be kept “under the hood” of this blog.
Tags:Ajax, Computer programming, computing, Cross-platform software, HTML, Interesting chemistry, Java, Java applet, Java technology, JavaScript, JavaScript libraries, jmol, JQuery, NPAPI, Scientific Journal, Software engineering, Technology/Internet, web browser behaviour, web browsers, Web-page security
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