Vivum: An Open Index for Interactive Scientific Publishing

J. Boix (Vivum)

Science publishing is broken in a specific way: the dominant format is a static PDF designed for print, yet the research it describes increasingly relies on simulations, interactive figures, and reproducible computation that a PDF cannot express. Vivum is an open index for interactive scientific articles, and this work requires the web medium to make its argument. Authors self-publish at any public URL and retain full ownership; Vivum provides discovery, community peer discussion, and a formal review pathway. When an article crosses a community threshold of votes and nominations, it enters structured peer review covering significance, reproducibility, and clarity, resulting in a citable DOI via Zenodo. Vivum itself is the demonstration of its own thesis: this platform is a live, interactive system ,not a document, and every design decision is inspectable and open.