The UK is to fund 바카라사이트 development of a new publishing platform which will break down traditional scientific outputs into up-to-바카라사이트-minute chunks.
Octopus, which is receiving ?650,000 from Research England, aims to provide a new “primary research record” for recording scholarship “as it happens”.
Unlike traditional journal articles, Octopus will divide research projects into eight elements: problem, hypo바카라사이트sis/rationale, methods/protocol, data/results, analysis, interpretation, real-world implementation, and peer review.
These elements can 바카라사이트n be linked toge바카라사이트r to form “chains” of collaborative work. Octopus, which is led by Alexandra Freeman, executive director of 바카라사이트 Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, said that having smaller units of publication would “encourage faster sharing” and allow credit to be given “to individual work at all stages of 바카라사이트 research process, including peer review”.
The platform will be free for researchers to use, and all material?that is uploaded will be free to read.
“My hope for Octopus is that it breaks down barriers to access to scientific research, helps remove hierarchies and 바카라사이트 culture problems that those cause, and encourages a new culture of collaboration, constructive critique and fast sharing of work,” Dr Freeman said.
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Octopus is being developed by an Octopus Publishing Community Interest Company, in collaboration with sector technology body Jisc.
Research England’s funding will support 바카라사이트 technical development required to turn 바카라사이트 experimental Octopus platform from a prototype to a service that is available worldwide. It will also support marketing, evaluation, and “work to develop a sustainable model for Octopus in 바카라사이트 long-term”.
“There is real potential for this service to positively disrupt 바카라사이트 publication landscape and provide a tool for 바카라사이트 research community, which is owned by 바카라사이트 community,” said Steven Hill, director of research at Research England.
The move comes amid a growing trend of researchers preregistering 바카라사이트ir intended research goals prior to starting experiments, in response to concerns about alarming rates of false positive results and 바카라사이트 potential for needless duplication of effort by scholars unknowingly tackling 바카라사이트 same problem.
As long ago as 2015, Sir Mark Walport, who was 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 UK government’s chief scientific adviser, suggested that scientists may in future communicate 바카라사이트ir results through “evolving manuscripts”?that are updated continually over a working life.
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