Comments on: Microarticles for Observations https://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/06/27/microarticles-for-observations/ A collection of thoughts and links from the NCEAS Future of Publishing Working Group Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:01:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 By: jebyrnes https://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/06/27/microarticles-for-observations/#comment-36 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:23:23 +0000 http://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=398#comment-36 In reply to Cameron.

I was really digging on the idea of posting the germs of an article as microarticles, getting feedback, then having a full article spring forth as one of the revisions.

]]> By: Cameron https://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/06/27/microarticles-for-observations/#comment-30 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:42:24 +0000 http://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=398#comment-30 So I’m still interested as to whether this fills the academic need or if there is some way to capitalise on this by making it into a “real” publication and make it citeable. Could making it more “scholarly” encourage a wider engagement with professional researchers start to build up a more valuable knowledge base.

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