Campaign proposal: Open Access Visual Abstracts

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Campaign creator/s: @sparsh717

• Rationale: Science communication has followed an archaic format of displaying important relevant information in text-only content. Despite evidence demonstrating that humans process visuals 60 000x faster, abstracts and papers have been delivered primarily through text. In this day and age of research oversaturation, this makes understanding outcomes cumbersome and difficult to digest. We propose that researchers communicate their results using open-access graphical abstracts that make it intuitive to access and understand complex information. The idea behind this is that summarized information can be delivered effectively in our world of byte-sized information, but also drive increased readership to the full-text. Keeping this open access under a creative commons license would allow for easy dissemination and knowledge translation for relevant papers. This will improve knowledge translation in the field of scientific communication that is longing for disruption.

• Action: Create open-access infographic abstracts (Tidbits) on your publications using our free Tidbit Creator Tool on www.readatidbit.com.

• Eligibility criteria: Currently, we are focusing on medical visual abstracts, given our background and expertise, but we have plans to expand into all fields of science in the near future. There are no constrains on the size of the infographic abstract - they can be as short or as long and complex as you like.

• Optional anonymity: Yes

• Threshold: 50

• Campaign expiration: 1 Year

• Pledge duration: N/A