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 our community. If you have a news item you’d like us to include in the next PubSource, please share with team@coko.foundation. Funding for work on Open Source tools for advancing biomedical research The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is seeking funding applications from open…
More faculty will be able to create their own open textbooks thanks to a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to support a collaborative project led by the Open Textbook Network (OTN), in partnership with Coko. “A National Platform for Authoring Open Textbooks” seeks to lower barriers…
PubSource is a collection of news briefs on interesting projects that touch our community. If you have a news item you’d like us to include in the next PubSource, please share with team@coko.foundation. eLife Solicits Feedback This week, eLife is gathering feedback from the publishing community about the platforms we use to host and present journal…
We are happy to announce the next PubSweet Community meeting in Cambridge, UK on August 29 and 30. All organizations building against PubSweet are welcome and encouraged to attend, share work, and participate in discussions and work groups. More information and agenda forthcoming.
We’ve been waiting years for this moment to come and now that it did, I can say it was worth the wait! What am I talking about? Why the PubSweet collaboration week, of course! Specifically, I’m talking about asking multiple organizations, with diverse goals and approaches, to contribute their components and other improvements back to…
If you’re going to San Diego, be sure to know where and when you can connect with the PubSweet Community! We are presenting in the following sessions: Wednesday, May 29, 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Open Source Bazaar Pre-Meeting Session Thursday, May 30, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. – Leveraging Open Source Technology to…
Europe PMC plus is the manuscript submission system for authors supported by Europe PMC funders. It has been developed as a fully open source application built against PubSweet within the community, which includes eLife and Hindawi in addition to others. At JATS Con this week, Audrey Hamelers Data Wrangler and Project Lead at the European Bioinformatics Institute‘s Literature Services, presented a poster and…
With many spring meetings on the calendar, the small but mighty Coko team is busily moving about the world to do what we do best – facilitate collaboration of forward thinking publisher communities! Last week, we enjoyed a successful Editoria Community Meeting in San Francisco, California. This is our second such meeting, and it took…
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