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Modular Research Publishing – Looking for Collaborators


I was an academician. Research article writing and publishing is redundant and time consuming. I want to create new way of publishing research works and this paint point is recurring one for me as well as many researchers around the world. Moreover, Current journal publications are print based and mostly closed sources.

I am looking for developers to build this for helping millions of researchers around the world.

I want to introduce modular research open publishing.

Modules are like this:

Theory - It is a concept where authors can share their conceptual ideas. Theorem - Mathematical theorem. Definition - Mathematics as well Physical sciences use this lot. Methodology - Step of Procedures. Algorithms - humanly readable code/steps. Data - Any set of data.

Experimental setup - Experiment setup flowchart, graph or photos or even videos. Experimental Results - Text, tables photos and videos etc.,

The system should be collaborative tool that can write modules directly on the web and publish. Also the modules are uniquely identifiable. Citation of modules are introduced rather than citing the whole article. Researchers concentrate on specific things rather than wasting time on various things are not necessary for their research such as writing methodology/theorem for survey based social science research publication.

Please share your opinion on this as well as you can contact me jeevasathyatheesars@gmail.com if you are interested in developing this concept.

Thanks and Cheers! Jeeva


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One interest of mine is researching research. I thought had seen a paper that was similar and went to find it. Instead I found a book and a project that I hadn't seen.

> Beyond the Flow: Scholarly Publications During and After the Digital (Niels-Oiiver Walkowski) 2019 https://meson.press/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/978-3-95796-1...

Liquid Publications

> Scientific Knowledge Objects (Fausto Giunchiglia and Ronald Chenu­-Abente) 2009 http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/1542/

> Knowledge and Artifact Representation in the Scientific Lifecycle (Ronald Chenu-Abente Acosta) 2012 http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/713/ http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/713/1/Kw_and_Artifact_Rep...

> Managing Ubiquitous Scientific Knowledge Objects (Hao Xu) 2011 http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/648/ http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/648/1/Hao's_PhD_thesis(fi...

(The paper I remembered called something paper blocks. It broke papers up into individually citable units.)

I must also mention:

> Literary Machines (Ted Nelson) 1982

As a reference to it is notably absent from the Walkowski book.