The document discusses Scratchpads, a digital platform for scholarly communication. It provides an overview of Scratchpads' history and current usage. It then outlines plans for the next version, Scratchpads 2, including new user features to improve site management, species pages, mapping capabilities, and support for publishing. Finally, it discusses Scratchpads' potential role in the future of digital scholarly communication and some initial efforts to publish data and articles directly from Scratchpad databases.