ReadWriteWeb has an article on Elsevier’s Article of the Future. As commentators sense, this appears to be a concentration of curent technologies.
Also, as one commentator has mentioned, Elsevier has an expensive paywall around them and true innovation would be allowing the articles to be published for free (as in speech and beer), especially if the data which the article uses has been paid for from public financing and grants.
Mike Cane, over on the eBookTest blog, has a good article on the use and need for metadata in eBooks and how it could be re-used. I doubt that Elsevier will release this data as a queriable interface which would be highly useful inconstructing links and a library of useful posts/articles.
Hi!
Sorry, but you should perhaps check your facts a little better. Elsevier doesn’t charge authors to publish articles. The only charge associated with publishing a Research article is if you would like to publish your figures in color (which, some could argue is unavoidable in many cases).
At any rate, they do allow articles to be published for free and only charge subscribers.
The post does not talk about Elsevier charging to publish articles. As I’m not an Elsevier author, I would not know about that but every time I’ve come across a journal article by Reed Elsevier which I’m interested in (but not subscribing to the enitre journal), I found myself blocked by a paywall.