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Open Textbook Network and Coko join forces to enhance the future of open textbook production

Feb 19, 2019

The Open Textbook Network (OTN), an organization focused on improving higher education by supporting the use, publication, and distribution of openly licensed textbooks, and the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), an organization focused on transforming how knowledge is created, improved, and shared, announce their partnership to broaden the production and distribution of open textbooks. The effort…

Announcing Europe PMC’s PubSweet-based End-to-End Manuscript Submission workflow coming soon!

Feb 15, 2019

The Coko community of innovative, forward-thinking publishing organizations building the tools of our dreams have collectively had an auspicious start in the new year! For example, Europe PMC plan wide rollout of their full, end-to-end manuscript submission workflow using PubSweet technology, later this month! We’ll share more information as it becomes available on this and…

What is Hype and What Has Value?

Feb 14, 2019

On February 5th, Coko Co-founder Kristen Ratan and Hindawi’s Chief Digital Officer Andrew Smeall presented on an ALPSP Webinar: What is Hype and What Has Value? Here, you can view slides from Kristen and Andrew.

Hindawi Limited and Coko announce development milestones and new collaboration!

Feb 12, 2019

Our community of innovative, forward-thinking publishers building the tools that could drive change in scholarly communications have collectively had an auspicious start in the new year! An example: Hindawi launched their xPub system – built within 9 months – in fall 2018. Since then, they have added development resource on the project bringing the team…

Mellon Foundation funds continued development of open source book production platform, Editoria, built by Coko

Feb 11, 2019

The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), together with its fiscal sponsor, Aspiration, announce a one year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation enabling the continued development of the technology and community surrounding the Editoria platform. Editoria is a browser-based book production workflow system that has been built using open source technology. Editoria is the result…

eLife and Coko celebrate development milestones

Feb 8, 2019

Our community of innovative, forward-thinking publishers building the tools of our dreams have collectively had an auspicious start in the new year! Here are some highlights to note: An early subset of eLife’s incoming submissions are now traversing their xPub system! Later this month, they will ramp up to 100%. Notably, this system is capable…

Questioning everything!

Jan 25, 2019

This month, Learned Publishing released an issue exploring the future of scholarly publishing titled ‘Question Everything.’ Being the curious individuals we are, it seemed like the perfect venue to submit some of the explorations we’ve undertaken. We are proud to share the following two articles our team contributed to within this issue: Can we transform scholarly…

XSweet 2.0 – now with math!

Alex Theg Dec 20, 2018

We’re pleased to announce the release of XSweet 2.0, Coko’s docx-to-HTML conversion tool. XSweet is a highly customizable, modular tool for converting MS Word files (.docx) into HTML for publishing to the web, or importing into other platforms. Coko uses XSweet to import author Word files into its book production and journals platforms, and XSweet…

Paged Media reflects on a monumental year

Dec 20, 2018

The Coko family includes the brand-new initiative Paged Media, created by Adam Hyde this year to explore granular control over pagination in browsers. The initiative yielded Paged.JS, which is a dynamic export option in use within Editoria. To get here, a team of experts had an extremely productive year! Read all about it in this…

What’s new in Wax?

Dec 19, 2018

Wax– the web based word processor that scholarly communications has been dreaming of– has been upgraded! Those familiar with Coko tools will recall that Wax is the styling/formatting interface in use within Editoria, and the manuscript annotation and presentation portal in use in xPub. It is pretty amazing to start with, but new features include…

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Open Textbook Network and Coko join forces to enhance the future of open textbook production

Announcing Europe PMC’s PubSweet-based End-to-End Manuscript Submission workflow coming soon!

What is Hype and What Has Value?

Hindawi Limited and Coko announce development milestones and new collaboration!

Mellon Foundation funds continued development of open source book production platform, Editoria, built by Coko

eLife and Coko celebrate development milestones

Questioning everything!

XSweet 2.0 – now with math!

Paged Media reflects on a monumental year

What’s new in Wax?

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