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…
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!
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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
At Coko, we’ve strived for openness and transparency. When eLife suggested commissioning a review of the PubSweet code, we not only welcomed it, but asked eLife if we could publish it. They very generously agreed and you’ll find the review in its entirely below. We believe that open and transparent discussion of code improves products….
For a long time, even an open source advocate might have written a passionate plea about it from a Windows operating system. Most PCs and laptops were the domain of Microsoft, whose then-CEO Steve Ballmer once compared open source to cancer. Those days are long gone, as the company’s recent OpenDev event (tagline: “See what’s…
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