The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing
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Coko
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Coko
Not-for-profit
Build and maintain PubSweet
Build publishing platforms (work for hire)
Build community
Consultancy services
https://coko.foundation
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Adam Hyde
Founder Manager of Coko
Shuttleworth Fellow
Founder Owner Book Sprints
Founder Manager Cabbage Tree Labs
Technical Advisor OA Switchboard
Management Board EIFL
CoFounder Coalition for Open Access Publishing Infrastructures in Africa
adam@coko.foundation
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The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing
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The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Publishing
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Open Source
Two ways to license software
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Two ways to license software
Proprietary Software
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Two ways to license software
Proprietary Software
Open Source Software
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Open Source is software you have the right to...
Access
Reuse
Change
Redistribute
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A shortlist of examples...
Open Source Software in publishing
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Editoria (Coko)
Kotahi (Coko)
Phenom (Hindawi)
Libero (eLife)
Stenci.la
OJS (PKP)
PubPub (OKF)
Hypergraph (Lib Sci)
Fulcrum (uMich)
Manifold (UMN)
PressBooks
Janeway (OLH)
Scalar
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What do these softwares do?
Submission & peer review
Publishing and curation
Editing / copy editing / proofing
Repository management
Reviewer management
Preprints, micropubs, interactive works etc
New ways of publishing...
Open Source Software in publishing
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Open Source Software in publishing
https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/
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https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/
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Why do folks make
Open Source publishing software?
Open Source Software in publishing
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First some questions to you...
Open Source Software in publishing
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First some questions to you...
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Can your workflow be improved?
Open Source Software in publishing
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First some questions to you...
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Can your workflow be improved?
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Are you being asked to do more for less?
Open Source Software in publishing
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First some questions to you...
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Can your workflow be improved?
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Are you being asked to do more for less?
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Are your tools well suited to your work?
Open Source Software in publishing
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First some questions to you...
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Can your workflow be improved?
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Are you being asked to do more for less?
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Are your tools well suited to your work?
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Do you have ideas on how to improve your workflow and your tools?
Open Source Software in publishing
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Why do folks make
Open Source publishing software?
Open Source Software in publishing
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Because they are trying
to help with these issues
Open Source Software in publishing
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Open Source is working to..
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reduce costs
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improve speed
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stimulate innovation
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involve you
Open Source Software in publishing
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Changing the hosting / services market
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Break the software-services 1:1
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Reduce the cost burden for new entrants
Reducing Costs
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Changing the hosting / services market
Reducing Costs
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https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/
Improving article processing speeds
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Improving workflows
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Automated typesetting
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Automation
Improve Speed
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Improve Speed
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https://kotahi.community/
Improve Speed
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https://www.micropublication.org/
Innovation
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Trying new ways...
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Reproducible documents
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Automated typesetting
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Web based workflows
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Introducing collaboration
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New forms of publishing
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New forms of peer review
Innovation
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https://stenci.la/
Innovation
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https://www.libscie.org/hypergraph
Involving You
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Collaboration
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Codesign
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Community
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Bringing tech people and publishers together
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What if you were involved in
designing the tools you use?
Involving You
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What if you were involved in designing...
MS Word
InDesign
Adobe Acrobat
Involving You
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What if you were involved in designing...
...the next generation of tools.
Involving You
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How real is Open Source Software?
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How real is Open Source Software?
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OJS
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since 2001
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10,000+ Journals
https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
How real is Open Source Software?
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Hindawi Phenom
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228 Journals (one system)
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100,000 Articles / year
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3,000,000 users
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500,000 Article Library
https://www.hindawi.com/
How real is Open Source Software?
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EBI EPMC PLUS
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XML QA Workflow for EPMC PLUS
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Newly Announced Preprint XML Workflow
https://plus.europepmc.org/
Myths
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Is Open Source an ‘amateur’ or ‘part time’ endeavor?
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Is Open Source Secure?
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Do I have to have a software team to use open source?
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Isn’t Open Source a non-commercial thing?
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Open Source is only for big tech!
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https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/06/guest-post-open-source-and-scholarly-publishing/
Truths
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Open Source is a bunch of good folks trying to Find a Better Way
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You can be one of the good folks
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Lend your expertise
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Have a say in the future of publishing
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Adam Hyde
Founder Manager of Coko
adam@coko.foundation
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