Manifesto
New Science Manifesto
From Paper Publishing to Scholarly Curation
Public Abstract
Short Manifesto
The modern scholarly paper is not the natural form of knowledge. It is a historical media form shaped by print, postal circulation, learned societies, libraries, journal subscriptions, and academic evaluation.
Papers still matter. But digital networks and AI have changed how research is produced, discovered, reviewed, reproduced, summarized, and reused. The question is no longer whether papers should exist, but whether they should remain the only finished form of scholarship.
RenaSci argues for scholarly curation beyond the paper: a scholarly work that contains a paper view, public explanations, learning paths, open data, failed attempts, ethical and funding records, machine-readable formats, version histories, and open review. A work organized in this way can also be called a knowledge object.
