A recent article on the BioMed Central blog reports the latest development in the concept of ‘threaded publications’. This concept of connecting all digitally-published content relating to the evidence about a particular trial was originally articulated in 1999 by Altman and Chalmers (see their original article in the Lancet). Eventually (and likely sooner than we think) we imagine that this will be the norm in scientific publishing.
Threaded Publications: one step closer