{"id":242,"date":"2009-04-09T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2009\/04\/09\/brief_summaries_on_nature_online_contents_page\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T09:08:00","slug":"brief_summaries_on_nature_online_contents_page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2009\/04\/09\/brief_summaries_on_nature_online_contents_page\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief summaries on Nature online contents page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was going mad this morning as I browsed the online contents page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v458\/n7239\/index.html\">today&#8217;s Nature<\/a> issue. When I got to the sections for Articles and Letters, the entries looked longer than usual, due to the inclusion of a two or sentence summary for each item.<br \/>\nI checked earlier issues and could not see these summaries, so it looks like a new development, though I haven&#8217;t seen any announcement about it.<br \/>\nI think it is a good idea &#8211; making browsing more informed &#8211; but some readers may dislike it as it is of course less compact than before.<br \/>\nIt is surprising that many online tables of contents look so much like their print counterparts.  Elsevier have a cunning thing that lets you preview the abstract on the contents page, but that&#8217;s all that springs to mind without going and checking other publishers.<br \/>\nSo, what do you think of the new contents page?<br \/>\nI am also curious to know what drove NPG to make the change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was going mad this morning as I browsed the online contents page of today&#8217;s Nature issue. When I got to the sections for Articles and Letters, the entries looked longer than usual, due to the inclusion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2009\/04\/09\/brief_summaries_on_nature_online_contents_page\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}