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…
The promise of open science to improve the speed, transparency and completeness of research sharing has attracted a lot of innovators and developers creating new, open source technology solutions. All too often, though, technologies are built by organizations that see themselves as competitive with one another and work at cross purposes. We’re focusing on…
The first event towards building an alliance of good faith actors working in open source for open science. Request an invite now! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-source-alliance-for-open-science-forum-tickets-32172984262 – Travel funds available.
As an advocate of open access (OA), I often get asked about the connection between OA and the open source technology that Coko is focused on. OA publishing can be done using closed technology. So how will more open source software grow or improve open access publishing? Lowering costs enables “the flip” There has been…
Scholarly journal and book publishing today is a convoluted, expensive and slow process that is mired in print paradigms. It can take months to years for finished research to be published and the final product lacks the interactivity and richness possible in the digital era. Most research communication workflows operate as they did 10 or…
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