Anthropology

Abstract

Although it is rapidly emerging as a forum for social science scholarship, the World Wide Web is now used mainly to propagate conventional scholarship. This is certain to change given the simultaneous expansion in the capabilities of Web-based communication and decline in libraries' ability to keep abreast of print scholarship. This article outlines opportunities for changing and enhancing the nature of scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles on the Web. Three mechanisms are discussed by which the form and content of the scholarly article can be improved: (a) the use of hypertext structuring, (b) the integration of multimedia components into articles, and (c) the use of differentiated pointers. Examples are on an accompanying Web page at http://artsci.wustl.edu/∼anthro/demo/.