The Elsevier Article Of The Future Project: A Novel Experience Of Online Reading

The Article of the Future initiative aims to revolutionize the traditional linear format of the academic paper to make it more dynamic and user-friendly. In this chapter, we present the outcomes of the Article of the Future project, with an emphasis on its final designs, the user feedback collected, and how the Article of the Future handles the rising need of connecting the formal scientific record with associated discipline-specific data. Our main goal was to offer new content and tools that would help researchers in their specific scientific needs. The project team worked with more than 150 people in the scientific community to come up with the article prototypes for the simple-to-read online design. The redesigned article format is now available on ScienceDirect, while our journey continues. Right now, we are gradually bringing new domain-specific functionalities to online articles on ScienceDirect.