Elsevier's Digital Doc Prototype: Is This The Scientific Article of the Future?

Here is a FriendFeed discussion about it: http://friendfeed.com/science-online/cbbe2531/news-releases-..., which boils down to the answer of 'no'.

This is typical of those with the power in science: they are too slow to embrace new technologies and to adapt to what researchers need. But, hey, why do they need to when they have researchers bent over a barrel whilst they rake in the money.

Scientific publishing is ripe for disruption, which includes getting rid of pdf.

More like the scientific article as it should have been by the mid-90s. Still, it's good to see some experimentation.

Elsevier's attempts are laudable to make Scientific papers a bit more readable on the web. Most people will just download a pdf and print to read and keep! However, I was surprised to find out that their use of Javascript can only be described as 'archaic'! (Just do a page view of the images tab)