Openness

"If you can find a way to make sure that scientists do get credit, then why shouldn’t it work? Indeed, there are moves afoot to make sure this does happen (and I’ve been involved in some discussions about how it could work): with a reliable author identifier linked to a robust system of tracking each quantum of discovery, or datum, or idea (such as, oh how about the DOI?) it shouldn’t be beyond the ken of open science advocates to build a system of microcredits that might altogether do away with one of reasons for the traditional, article-based publishing system...."