Trust in scholarly communication is often discussed as an editorial responsibility. Increasingly, it is also a technology problem.
A modern publishing system can preserve manuscript versions, record editorial decisions, identify contributors, connect datasets and display corrections.
None of these mechanisms can guarantee that research is correct.
They can, however, make the history of a scholarly work easier to examine.
Research integrity should therefore be considered during the design of publishing infrastructure—not added as a final checklist before publication.
