Presentation Elsevier DESY, Germany, 20th May Publishing Director, David Clark
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New Activities – Elsevier Examples My Elsevier A homepage for every editor, author and reviewer Author: article tracking, citation, usage reports Reviewer: outstanding tasks, publication record, citation and usage information of articles reviewed More Like This Linking Linking to complimentary or supplemental content to promote discoverability End user is able to discover relevant content both backward – via reference based links – and forward – via citation based links Scopus identification of authors Social Bookmarking Allow users to store and share bookmarks in an online service, providing users with the ability to rate, tag, and comment on articles The generated collective intelligence opens new ways of finding useful STM information Additional Article Information The peer-reviewed article is the condensed end result of an intensive research process during which many documents and files are created Additional Article Information (AAI) gives the author the ability to share this information and to present these files to the end-users in an organized, searchable way
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PDF Enhancements Objective Provide a more useful article to our readers & enhance the content provided by the author: Reusable components Linking with other resource Machine readable knowledge Examples Dynamic Cover Sheet: add information to PDFs after they are in SD repository: Information about citing articles Market other related journals, articles and special issues advertisement Meta Data in PDF: add machine readable article meta data to PDFs Linking MathML and Latex code of equations in PDF annotations Linking to chemical structures in Beilstein (old Dymond linking) Linking to many other resources possible (star catalogs, program and algorithm database, …)
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