Visualising the scientific article
Rod Page

closed

atomic

Closed Open
©

completely closed is not an
option

nobody will find you

indexing

abstract
abstracting

bibliography
citation linking

closed

homogeneous objects

“follow your nose”

ranking

Impact factor

PageRank

reuse publications

Shoulders of giants

progress is incremental

reuse past results

Darwin

…dedicated to bringing Darwin's
dream – to “have fairly true
genealogical trees of each great
kingdom of Nature” – within grasp

Species
Genes

data linking

data citation

geotagging

reuse data

taxonomy
(and geotagging)

treemap

better search

better linking

Science Direct

If things are closed…

…this is all I want

Phylogeography of the Pygmy Rain Frog
(Pristimantis ridens) across the lowland wet
forests of isthmian Central America
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An alternative…

demo

All of this…

data linking

…came from this

or this…

table

No full text was harmed in
making this demo
(plus bibliography)

“Just” mark up identifiers and
geotags

Make these available for
harvesting

Closed Open
©

The Carmen Electra argument for
Open Access

reuse data

Electra pilosa

Carmen Electra versus Electra

reuse data

Homo sapiens

AJ711044

should be AJ971044

how do I fix this error?

Closed

Can’t easily fix

Open…

…and editable

Anybody could fix it

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