The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) has set its sights on Aperture: a new initiative to develop an open publishing platform by and for their own community. More than a platform, Aperture aims to rethink the ‘norms’ associated with communicating academic research, bringing transparency and interactivity to the publishing process. Initial focus will be…
We are often asked for examples of all of the platforms that are built on top of PubSweet. As some are in progress, and all are unique, it’s often a complex inquiry to respond to. In this post, we attempt to share high-level information about each platform. Hindawi Journals publishing and technology organization Hindawi Ltd….
It’s almost time for the first PubSweet meeting of 2019, so we wanted to share a few details! If you are wondering, What is a PubSweet meeting? The PubSweet Community includes all organizations who are developing platforms collaboratively, sharing Coko technology and methodology. This means that attendees of these meetings, which happen roughly once quarterly, are both…
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…
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.
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…
Crucial to an open source community is the maintenance of its code and facilitating the collaboration needed to cultivate creation of shared community’s infrastructure. As Coko’s technology offerings and communities expand, our financial model is maturing from reliance on funder investment toward a sustainable model in which our community sponsors the organization financially. As an…
In her Crossref LIVE18 Keynote speech this week, Coko’s Kristen Ratan questioned the sense of the industry’s continuing resignation to being locked in to costly, print-based, outdated workflows and technologies (some of which are now owned by competitor publishers). “Publishers are mired in print paradigms, and legacy systems. We need to break out of silos.”…
Coko Co-Founder Kristen Ratan has published an article, Driving a vision of publisher efficiency through collaboration with the peer-reviewed journal, Information Services & Use, published by IOS Press. In this article, Kristen asserts that no one platform can solve all the problems. We need an ecosystem of tools and software, creating modular and interoperable systems…
Coko is our community Great technologies aren’t created in isolation, but are community-built and open to collaboration. To give a window into the honest and open collaboration of our partners, we’ve created a short video that we believe captures the spirit of the combined motivation to move open source infrastructure from vision to reality….
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