For the next four weeks, you may make nominations for the Open Publishing Awards! Categories include Open Source Software and Open Content. Anyone can make nominations, and self-nominations are encouraged. Within Open Source Software, the judges will review nominated projects within the Publishing sector. This can include publishing platforms, repositories, curatorial management systems, peer-review systems,…
New report on Open Source in Schol Comms John Maxwell of Simon Fraser University recently published this Mellon Funded report on the state of Open Source in Scholarly Communications. Many fantastic projects are covered in detail within the report. View, comment, and review community comments. You can also view Adam’s response on Scholarly Kitchen. Calls for papers/…
We are very proud to announce that we will be hosting the inaugural Open Publishing Awards: a celebration of all things Open in Publishing. Nominating begins August 19, and will remain open for four weeks. Categories will be announced at the same time. At the end of this period, a small group of judges will…
Giannis Kopanas is a PubSweet Developer who has most recently been lending his talents to Editoria. He lives and works in Athens, Greece. We chatted him up about about summer, software and what he is looking forward to at Coko. Alison: Giannis, how is your summer going? Giannis Kopanas: A little bit of summer is…
You may have noticed recently we have updated the website. We simplified its structure and made Coko easier to understand. This is part of an incremental process of moving our identity forward. To this end, we are also updating our branding. We will slowly migrate our name from Collaborative Knowledge Foundation/ Coko to just Coko….
PubSource is a collection of news briefs on interesting projects that touch on Open Source and Publishing. If you have a news item you’d like us to include in the next PubSource, please share with team@coko.foundation. What’s Urgent? The Urgent Publishing Conference took place in Amsterdam in May. Now, you can watch the presentation vids….
Julien Taquet lives in France and is an expert UX and Book CSS designer whose expertise benefits Coko, Book Sprints, Editoria, Paged.js and all of these organizations’ constituents. We decided to learn more about how Julien amassed such a wealth of knowledge across multiple very specialized domains, and why he chooses to deploy these gifts…
Are you trying to build community and it just doesn’t ‘stick’? You can’t work out exactly whats going wrong. You know that you want community to form around a project, and you know it’s a good idea, but you just can’t work out why it’s not happening. Surely, people know it’s a good idea, right?…
Rapid open publication workflow needs can be substantially divergent from traditional publication workflows. There are similarities in the need to efficiently manage submission, and deliver the author a simple experience while still obtaining all the necessary files and metadata. At the same time, for rapid publications whether and how peer review is managed varies, as…
PubSource is a collection of news briefs on interesting projects that touch on Open Source and Publishing. If you have a news item you’d like us to include in the next PubSource, please share with team@coko.foundation. Introducing Shareyourpaper.org Shareyourpaper.org is a new project from the folks behind the Open Access Button. The project’s goal is to…
PubSource is a collection of news briefs on interesting projects that touch on Open Source and Publishing. If you have a news item you’d like us to include in the next PubSource, please share with team@coko.foundation. eLife, community, celebrate development milestone for Libero Publisher eLife officially shared early access to a demonstration version of the…
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