Common Infrastructure

& Community

What is...

'common infrastructure'?

A common story...

...remember when...

...back in the day...

...when we used to

work on large scale

ex-soviet radio telescopes...

Problems with Shared Infrastructure...owned by someone else...

• You all get the same
• You don't get a say
• Same common infrastructure, as long as its bland
• You can't fix it
• No innovation
• When the owner is AWOL....whaaaaaaaat?

Problems with Shared PUBLISHING Infrastructure...owned by someone else...

• You all get the same
• You don't get a say
• Same common infrastructure, as long as its bland
• You can't fix it
• No innovation
• When the owner is AWOL....whaaaaaaaat?

A Better Common Publishing Infrastructure

PubSweet

PubSweet provides a lot of 'stuff' that enables developers to build publishing systems

Owned by the community

Supports the Workflows you want

~9 Publishing Platforms

4 currently in production

• Hindawi
• eLife
• EBI
• Editoria

Varied Use Cases

• Journals
• Micropubs
• Content Aggregation
• Books
• Book Sprints
• Pre-print review
• Award Systems

Once built, you can use these platforms...for free...

What is....Community?

and...OHBM...

Photos

• telescope CC-BY Adam Hyde
• apartments 1 CC BY 2.0 lafleur
• apartments 2 CC BY-SA 2.0 michael clarke