Knowledge Network for Authoring, Reviewing, Editing, Searching, and Using Scientific or Other Credible Information

Abstract Video The existing paradigm of the scientific literature—individual authoring and editing, parallel review, a format that allows only reading—has not changed in over a century. The barriers to authorship, use, and the creation of scientific works are significant. We developed a new literature format based on an interactive network to address the needs of all parties, from author to user. We began by structuring the writing of text and data for a discipline's needs. Five report types were created, with menus for specific terms and data to allow online, simultaneous, multiauthor writing and editing. A new measurable peer-review process was created. Users can ask questions of reports, and data from multiple reports can be combined. A topic search is associated with automated research tools. We built a prototype that was built and refined based on continuous feedback from surveys, expert panels, presentations, and other feedback mechanisms. In continuous development, the free network World Science (w...