Despite significant advances in digital technologies, modern scientific results are still communicated using antiquated methods. In nearly 400 years, scientific literature has progressed from physically printed articles to PDFs, but these electronic documents are still text-based and therefore not machine-readable. This means your computer cannot interpret the information they contain without human assistance.
‘Reborn articles’: Simple approach enables direct publication of machine-readable scientific findings
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