In 2011, I suggested that the standard monolith that is the conventional scientific article could be broken down into two separate, but interlinked components, being the story or narrative of the article and the data on which the story is based. Later in 2018 the bibliography in the form of open citations were added as a distinct third component.[1] Here I discuss an approach that has taken this even further, breaking the article down into as many as eight components and described as “Octopus publishing” for obvious reasons. These are;
References
- D. Shotton, "Funders should mandate open citations", Nature, vol. 553, pp. 129-129, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-00104-7