Figure 1
The three-pane Article of the Future format
Figure 2
Content enhancements in the Article of the Future: an interactive map (top) and graph (bottom)
Figure 3
Context enhancement in the Article of the Future: visualizing data from the Protein Data Bank
Figure 4
Pre-2012 ScienceDirect article page (left) and Article of the Future format (right)
Figure 5
(a) Users less often download the PDF for further reading and inspection. (b) Part of the additional online time is used to inspect extra context and content. (c) The Article of the Future design is preferred in a 4 against 1 ratio. (d) The Article of the Future design is especially effective in determining whether an article is not relevant.
Table 1
Some questions from the Article of the Future prototypes survey
| How does the new presentation format and extra features contribute to obtaining a better understanding of the research described in the article? |
| Please indicate if there is a specific task that is particularly affected as a result of the new article format |
| What is your opinion on the overall readability of the main text content area compared to how articles are usually presented in HML form on journal websites? |
| Does the article outline shown on the left side help you to navigate easily within the article? |
| Does the approach of showing additional content/features in the right sidebar help when reading the article? |
| What did you LIKE THE MOST about the article prototypes? |
| What did you LIKE THE LEAST about the article prototypes? |
| How would you rate this new presentation format of a research article overall? |
| How would you PRIORITIZE the following new content specific article features in terms of usefulness? |
Figure 6
Using applications in the Article of the Future to integrate data from NCBI GenBank (a), PANGAEA (b), and various data sources in astronomy (c)