What is Hype and What Has Value?
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.
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Hindawi Limited and Coko announce development milestones and new collaboration!
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…
eLife and Coko celebrate development milestones
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…
XSweet 2.0 – now with math!
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…
What’s new in Wax?
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…
The Spirit of Partnerships
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….
Inside the kaleidoscopic world of Editoria
Coko’s book production system Editoria empowers you to reimagine your workflow. You will gain efficiencies by collaborating within the browser, working in parallel on all parts of the book, leveraging automated typesetting and distribution tools. Like all Coko tools, Editoria is Open Source, which means that the code is openly available on gitlab via the…
Coko Community PRW Webinar: A real time discussion about collaboration
The Coko Community Webinar in celebration of Peer Review Week (PRW) featured several of our xPub partners, as well as live discussion with attendees. If you missed it, no worries! We recorded it and have made it available for you to watch at your leisure! Grab a fancy, cozy coffee and enjoy! We did!
Peer Review Week 2018: We’re havin’ a party!
Here in the Cokoverse, supporting peer review workflow with open source technology is the core of what we do! When we heard that the focus of this year’s Peer Review Week celebration is Diversity and Inclusion in Review, we could hardly contain our excitement and went straight into planning mode! Open source naturally lends itself…
Jump in, the water is fine! Open source alternatives to platform vendors are here!
As consolidation continues within scholarly communications, many constituents are vocalizing hesitation to continue working with commercial systems vendors. Concerns vary based on the organization and system type, but include publishers and institutions who don’t want competitor publishers or large commercial interests “owning” their infrastructure and accessing their data. As you know, Coko is a…