Challenging the print paradigm: web-powered scholarship is setto advance the creation and distribution of research

Our containers for scholarly works – papers, monographs, PDFs – are anachronistic. Marcus A. Banks argues the Web is flexible enough to facilitate far more opportunities for scholarship in a way that print could never do. A print piece is necessarily reductive, while Web-oriented scholarship can be as capacious as required. He highlights three innovations in particular that are set to transform the scholarly environment: data papers, scholarly HTML and sophisticated data mining tools like Content Mine.