HTML format enriches BMGN articles

OpenJournals, in collaboration with the journal BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review, has developed a new HTML format to enrich articles with additional information. Thanks to this HTML format, the BMGN website offers a comprehensive explanation of digital research methods, and better visualisation of the results in the article. With the release of the BMGN issue Volume 139-1, an article in this new HTML format appears on BMGN.nl for the first time.

For example, it is possible to link additional information to certain words in the text and highlight those words with a colour. When you click on that, the extra information appears in a box in the margin. That text block can then also be enlarged to make reading easier. It is also possible to apply and add all Plotly’s graphs to articles. Plotly is an open-source module used to create data visualisations.

In the coming period, the Openjournals team will further develop the format and method. After that, other journals could also make use of this feature.

See the enhanced article in the latest BMGN-Low Countries Historical Review here.