Embracing Reuse in Scientific Communication

The ability to build upon existing knowledge is fundamental to the process of science. Yet, despite the rapid advancement of science, the methods for citing and referencing content have remained surprisingly static. Today, we’re on the brink of transforming how we interact with scientific literature and educational content. The Curvenote team has been working in the MyST Markdown ecosystem to simplify the ways to reference and embed figures directly into publications. We are starting this process by integrating a simple markdown syntax for hover-references , which aims to not only streamline referencing academic citations but also enhance the readability and interactive capacity of scholarly articles. This blog post explores the importance of scientific reuse, as the driving FAIR principle, and introduces new tools to reshape how knowledge is reused, shared, and improved in the scientific community.