Table of Contents
Index
Glossary
Table of Contents
Index
Glossary

Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Communication in physics
    • The explosion of scientific journals
    • The emergence of the electronic media
    • The project `Communication in Physics'
  • Outline
• Effective and efficient communication via electronic scientific articles
  • Scientific communication via articles
    • A model of the process of communication via scientific articles
    • Communication in experimental science
    • Scientific articles
  • Requirements for scientific articles
    • Rational communication
    • A profile of the interactants in scientific communication via articles
  • Electronic publishing
  • Communication criteria for electronic articles
• A modular presentation of information: general definitions
  • A modular structure
    • The general definition of modules
    • The general definition of links
    • The composition of modules
  • Typologies for a modular structure
  • Modular models
• A modular model for experimental sciences
  • Developing a modular model
    • The modularisation of published articles
    • Analysis and construction
  • Modules
    • The typology of the information
    • The characterisation by the conceptual function
    • The domain-oriented characterisation
    • The characterisation by the range of the information
    • The characterisation by a set of specified bibliographic data
    • The internal structure of modules
    • The module Meta-information
  • Links
    • Structuring links
    • Organisational relations
    • Scientific discourse relations
• Evaluation of the modular model
  • Applying the model to the domain of experimental molecular dynamics
    • The corpus of articles on experimental molecular
      dynamics
    • A domain-specific interactants profile
    • Introduction to the examples
  • The feasibility and adequacy of modular articles
    • The feasibility of modular articles
    • The adequacy of modular articles
  • A discussion of the modules
    • Meta-information (m1)
    • Positioning (m2)
    • Methods (m3)
    • Results (m4)
    • Interpretation (m5)
    • Outcome (m6)
  • A discussion of the links
    • Representing organisational relations
    • Representing scientific discourse relations
• Conclusions
  • Findings
  • Leads for further research
    • The applicability of our modular model
    • Technical requirements for implementation and testing
• Guidelines for writing modular articles
  • Guidelines for a modular structure
    • Composition
    • Physics content
    • Procedure
  • Modules
    • Meta-information (m1)
    • Positioning (m2)
    • Methods (m3)
    • Results (m4)
    • Interpretation (m5)
    • Outcome (m6)
  • Links
    • General guidelines for links
    • Organisational relations
    • Scientific discourse relations
• List of published material in the corpus
• Appendix: modularisation in other domains
  • Generating experimental results: high temperature superconductors
  • The development of new methods: bioorganic and medicinal chemistry
  • Empirical research in the humanities: argumentation theory
  • Abstract research: logic for artificial intelligence
• Glossary
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index