Reproducible publishing at the CONP: a first wired paper, a national cloud and a connected Portal

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NeuroLibre, the CONP’s platform for reproducible publishing, publishes each paper with its code, data and computing environment, archived and re-executable, so that readers can examine and reuse the analysis behind every figure. This past year brought three milestones.

A first wired paper. On 20 August 2026, NeuroLibre published its first wired paper, Strong Coupling of Retinal Thickness and Optic Nerve Myelin in Vivo (Plante et al.), by authors from Polytechnique Montréal and NYU Abu Dhabi. Its figures are live connections to the underlying data and analyses rather than renderings of them: a reader can remove individual participants from a regression and see the fit change, and every result opens into its computational notebook. Readers can test the paper’s claims for themselves instead of taking its figures on trust.

The interactive OCT–T1 dashboard in the article: plots, retinal sector maps and a panel of participant checkboxes

The interactive dashboard in Plante et al. (2026). Untick a participant and the regressions are recomputed without them.

A home on Canada’s national research cloud. The platform was hardened for reliability and security, re-engineered to be fully portable, and migrated to the Arbutus cloud of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Its public services now sit behind a single gateway with monitoring and alerting, and a GPU instance running an open-weight language model lays the groundwork for a self-hosted version of Evidentron, the platform’s AI assistant.

Publications and data, connected. The CONP Portal datasets derived from NeuroLibre publications now link directly to those publications, with a badge showing the type of publication and a sort option that places them first.

Across its history, NeuroLibre has published 21 papers and archived more than 70 DOIs for their data, code and computing environments. All 21 are now in MyST, the community standard of the Jupyter Book ecosystem, converted from those archived materials. Its corpus already reaches beyond neuroscience, with a paper in physics and an essay on the history of science. Evidence, its successor, extends the model to all the sciences and is in public beta. Until Evidence opens for submissions, authors can submit to NeuroLibre.

Learn more: What is NeuroLibre?