It’s the beginning of a new chapter in the Coko story, and we are writing it together in Detroit, Michigan ahead of the Association of University Presses meeting, which we will attend and present at. We, of course, are Coko’s new management team, Adam, Jure and I. Together, we are discussing the structure of the…
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…
Coko Co-founder and tech lead Adam Hyde is at the intersection of several of his ventures, as he participates in a Shuttleworth Foundation Book Sprint from the perspective of his time as a Shuttleworth Fellow. The Foundation is creating a book about the organization’s vision and strategy for use internally and with philanthropists within their…
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….
The sun has set on day one of the PubSweet Community Meeting in Cambridge UK. The group enjoyed presentations from Jure, EBI, Hindawi, eLife, Pre-Review, and Digital Science. As you can see, our community is slowly growing and diversifying. If you want to learn more about this meeting, or Standard Jures, you can follow along on…
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…
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…
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…
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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