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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Effective and efficient communication via electronic scientific articles
Chapter 3 A modular presentation of information: general definitions
Chapter 4 A modular model for experimental sciences
Chapter 5 Evaluation of the modular model
Chapter 6 Conclusions
Appendix A Guidelines for writing modular articles
Appendix B List of published material in the corpus
Appendix C Examples of modularised articles
Appendix D Modularisation in other domains
Appendix E Glossary
Samenvatting
Dankwoord
Bibliography
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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Communication in physics
1.1.1 The explosion of scientific journals
1.1.2 The emergence of the electronic media
1.1.3 The project `Communication in Physics'
1.2 Outline
Chapter 2 Effective and efficient communication via electronic scientific articles
2.1 Scientific communication via articles
2.1.1 A model of the process of communication via scientific articles
Stage I: Creating
Stage II: Disseminating
Stage III: Acquiring
Stage IV: Assimilating
2.1.2 Communication in experimental science
2.1.3 Scientific articles
2.2 Requirements for scientific articles
2.2.1 Rational communication
2.2.2 A profile of the interactants in scientific communication via articles
Senders
Receivers
2.3 Electronic publishing
Distribution
Storage
Complex search operations
Separating the storage from the presentation format
Flexibility
Non-linearity
2.4 Communication criteria for electronic articles
Chapter 3 A modular presentation of information: general definitions
3.1 A modular structure
3.1.1 The general definition of modules
3.1.2 The general definition of links
3.1.3 The composition of modules
3.2 Typologies for a modular structure
3.3 Modular models
Chapter 4 A modular model for experimental sciences
4.1 Developing a modular model
4.1.1 The modularisation of published articles
4.1.2 Analysis and construction
4.2 Modules
4.2.1 The typology of the information
4.2.2 The characterisation by the conceptual function
m2 POSITIONING
m3 METHODS
m4 RESULTS
m5 INTERPRETATION
m6 OUTCOME
4.2.3 The domain-oriented characterisation
4.2.4 The characterisation by the range of the information
4.2.5 The characterisation by a set of specified bibliographic data
4.2.6 The internal structure of modules
Complex modules
Elementary modules
4.2.7 The module
Meta-information
m1 META-INFORMATION
4.3 Links
4.3.1 Structuring links
4.3.2 Organisational relations
1. Hierarchical relations
2. Proximity-based relations
3. Range-based relations
4. Administrative relations
5. Sequential relations
6. Representational relations
4.3.3 Scientific discourse relations
I Relations based on the communicative function
II Content relations
Chapter 5 Evaluation of the modular model
5.1 Applying the model to the domain of experimental molecular dynamics
5.1.1 The corpus of articles on experimental molecular
dynamics
5.1.2 A domain-specific interactants profile
5.1.3 Introduction to the examples
5.2 The feasibility and adequacy of modular articles
5.2.1 The feasibility of modular articles
Difficulty: from sections to modules
Workload: the size of the article
5.2.2 The adequacy of modular articles
The structure in general
The level of focusing
The level of detail
Overlap
5.3 A discussion of the modules
5.3.1
Meta-information
(m1)
5.3.2
Positioning
(m2)
Situation
m2a
Central problem
m2b
5.3.3
Methods
(m3)
Experimental methods
m3a
Numerical methods
m3b
Theoretical methods
m3c
5.3.4
Results
(m4)
Raw data
m4a
Treated results
m4b
5.3.5
Interpretation
(m5)
Qualitative interpretation
m5a
Quantitative interpretation
m5b
5.3.6
Outcome
(m6)
Findings
m6a
Leads for further research
m6b
5.4 A discussion of the links
5.4.1 Representing organisational relations
5.4.2 Representing scientific discourse relations
Relations based on the communicative function
Content relations
Chapter 6 Conclusions
6.1 Findings
6.2 Leads for further research
6.2.1 The applicability of our modular model
The components of our model
Examples of publications in other domains
6.2.2 Technical requirements for implementation and testing
The authors' tools
The readers' aids
Publishing & archiving
Summary
Appendix A Guidelines for writing modular articles
A.1 Guidelines for a modular structure
A.1.1 Composition
A.1.2 Physics content
A.1.3 Procedure
A.2 Modules
A.2.1
Meta-information
(m1)
A.2.2
Positioning
(m2)
A.2.3
Methods
(m3)
A.2.4
Results
(m4)
A.2.5
Interpretation
(m5)
A.2.6
Outcome (m6)
A.3 Links
A.3.1 General guidelines for links
A.3.2 Organisational relations
A.3.3 Scientific discourse relations
Appendix B List of published material in the corpus
Ion pair formation and Molecular physics
Articles
Letters
Reviews
Theses
Trajectory calculations of ion pair formation
Articles
Theses
Appendix C Examples of modularised articles
Appendix D Modularisation in other domains
D.1 Generating experimental results: high temperature superconductors
D.2 The development of new methods: bioorganic and medicinal chemistry
D.3 Empirical research in the humanities: argumentation theory
D.4 Abstract research: logic for artificial intelligence
Appendix E Glossary
Samenvatting
De stroomlijning van wetenschappelijke artikelen op de elektronische snelweg
Een modulaire structuur
De soorten informatie uitgedrukt in modules
De soorten relaties uitgedrukt in links
De hoofdstukken en appendices in dit proefschrift
Dankwoord
Bibliography
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