Notebook articles: towards a transformative publishing experience in nonlinear science

TL;DR

This paper advocates for the adoption of notebook articles in nonlinear science as a means to enhance open science, reproducibility, and accessibility through cloud-based, interactive, and reusable research dissemination methods.

Contribution

It introduces notebook articles as a transformative publishing format that leverages cloud computing for more ethical, transparent, and interactive scientific communication in nonlinear science.

Findings

Notebook articles enable reproducibility of equations and figures.

They facilitate access to research tools for low-income countries.

The format promotes reuse and adaptation of research methods.

Abstract

Open Science, Reproducible Research, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) data principles are long term goals for scientific dissemination. However, the implementation of these principles calls for a reinspection of our means of dissemination. In our viewpoint, we discuss and advocate, in the context of nonlinear science, how a notebook article represents an essential step toward this objective by fully embracing cloud computing solutions. Notebook articles as scholar articles offer an alternative, efficient and more ethical way to disseminate research through their versatile environment. This format invites the readers to delve deeper into the reported research. Through the interactivity of the notebook articles, research results such as for instance equations and figures are reproducible even for non-expert readers. The codes and methods are available, in a transparent manner, to interested readers. The methods can be reused and adapted to answer additional questions in related topics. The codes run on cloud computing services, which provide easy access, even to low-income countries and research groups. The versatility of this environment provides the stakeholders - from the researchers to the publishers - with opportunities to disseminate the research results in innovative ways.