Project: Transforming the way we publish research | RocketHub

"Scientific communication needs an overhaul, and Beethoven knew how. Beethoven once wrote "There should be only one repository of art in the world, to which the artist would donate his works in order to take what he would need". We are trying to build such an open repository for scientific research....[W]e want to...tackle the question "What if the public scientific record would be updated directly as research proceeds?" ...Our project [SciFund] aims at providing a technically feasible solution: open-access articles that evolve along with the topic they cover....We will start building Beethoven's open repository by taking 10,000 of these [OA articles under CC-BY] (especially review articles), convert them into a common format, interlink them like topics are linked on Wikipedia, and update them with fresh information as new research findings become available. This will turn the original 10,000 articles into Evolving Review Articles - in other contexts called Living Reviews - available under that same Creative Commons license...."