Publish ideas from scholarly articles early, event told | Times Higher Education (THE)

"Academics should be encouraged to openly publish all their research funding proposals, successful or otherwise, a conference has heard. Jisc’s Digifest was told that free and early dissemination at every stage of the research cycle, including project ideas and experiment designs, would reduce duplication of work and enable scholars to find potential collaborators more easily.  Ross Mounce, a postdoctoral research associate in the department of plant sciences at the University of Cambridge, told Digifest that academics should consider 'publishing the entire research workflow, not just the final outputs'. He is a founding editor of Research Ideas and Outcomes, an open access journal that hosts material such as project ideas and funding proposals from all disciplines ..."