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.
Open Source posts
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…
Questioning everything!
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…
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!
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…
Focus on Aperture
On June 18, at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting in Singapore, the Publishing Roundtable will solicit feedback from attendees on Aperture, the organization’s new publishing platform expected to release in 2019. More than a platform, Aperture aims to rethink the ‘norms’ associated with communicating academic research, bringing transparency and interactivity to the publishing…
A Vision for Scholarly Communication: Keynote for JCDL/UNTOA
A few days ago, I gave a presentation at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, Texas, to a room full of librarians, technology providers, and others interested in scholarly communication. It was a joint keynote for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the UNT Open Access Symposium, both great…
The open source offering: free to use, easy to change
Open source is about sharing software, the software is free to use. In itself this is a very powerful offering, but open source also allows you to repurpose and change the software to suit your needs, often referred to as ‘reusability’. In theory, this gives you the freedom to integrate the software with your own…
Editoria Webinar
Yesterday, Coko hosted a live webinar to give interested participants an opportunity to learn more about Editoria. An overview of the Editoria origin story, a live demonstration of Editoria, presentation on Open Source sustainability, and live Q&A were included. If you missed the live broadcast, you can view it here! Note: This player will not…
Seeding a New Ecosystem: open infrastructure
Coko co-founder Kristen Ratan recently gave a talk at the 2017 conference of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) on how open infrastructure can transform the scholarly publishing sector. Check out her slides below for more. Seeding a New Ecosystem: Open Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication from Collaborative Knowledge Foundation