Abstract: Contemporary scholarly communication is undergoing a paradigm shift, which in some ways echoes the one from the start of the Digital Era, when publications moved to a digital form. There are multiple reasons for this change, and three prominent ones are: (i) emergence of data-intensive science (Jim Gray’s Fourth Paradigm), (ii) evolving reading patterns in modern science, and (iii) increasing heterogeneity of research communication practices (and technologies). Motivated by e-Science methodologies and dataintensive science, contemporary scien...
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Topics: 
Data science
World Wide Web
Information retrieval