Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

On 8 Oct 2014, at 13:31, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>> wrote:

"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com<mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com>> writes:

[snip]
However, maybe the PLOS method can be improved to the point where the HTML is
competitive with PDF.

Indeed. For the moment, HTML views are about 1/5 of PDF. Partly this is
because scientists are used to viewing in print format, I suspect, but
partly not.


Or is that because they want to import it into their own reference management system, e.g. Mendeley, which does not support the HTML version?

Alasdair

[snip]
Phil


Alasdair J G Gray
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Received on Wednesday, 8 October 2014 14:09:38 UTC