A Manifesto for the Universal Scientific Archive. Automated Mapping and Open Access to All Scientific Contributions

The volume of scientific output has long surpassed the operational capacity of the academic publication system inherited from the 18th century.The system operates under a paradigm of scarcity: limited reviewer time, finite editorial attention, and a set number of pages in journals. This logic turns the act of judgment into a logistical filter rather than an instrument of knowledge, leaving much of the produced knowledge unmapped.Faced with this structural saturation, triage mechanisms—human or automated—have become normalized, operating as opaque and potentially arbitrary filters of exclusion. This manifesto does not focus on criticizing that exhausted model but on presenting the constructive blueprint for its replacement: The Universal Scientific Archive.We propose the creation of a global public infrastructure, based on radically different principles: the universal and unconditional ingestion of manuscripts; transparent, automated, and multidimensional evaluation (or "mapping") that generates descriptive profiles instead of binary verdicts (acceptance – rejection); and respect for the author, including an irrevocable right to be forgotten. The Archive does not reject; it characterizes. It does not judge; it describes. It does not exclude; it preserves and organizes.Technically viable and economically sustainable, this infrastructure would be built as a decentralized network of nodes located in territories with optimal geophysical conditions (cheap renewable energy and cold climate), ensuring resilience, low latency, and a minimal operational footprint. Its governance would be shielded from corporate or political influence, subject to the continuous audit of the scientific community through open-source code and algorithms.The Universal Scientific Archive is not a reform. It is an essential bypass: a new base layer for 21st-century scientific communication, designed from first principles for the era of informational abundance. Its ultimate goal is to ensure that no contribution to human knowledge is lost to administrative oblivion and that all scientific effort is preserved, mapped, and made accessible, laying the foundation for a more democratic, efficient, and genuinely cumulative exploration of knowledge.