Presentation given the the European Union Expert Panel on the Future of Scholarly Publishing - March 2018

1. Coko: We use community-based
approaches to build open source
solutions for research communication

2. Proposal: Return scholarly communication
to being a public good
An open ecosystem that ensures that the
production, communication, access, and use
of all research objects across the research
cycle maximizes the global public good by
being rapid, transparent, relevant, equitable,
and inclusive.

3. Research Lifecycle - Outputs
Data/results
Micropubications
PreprintArticle
Discovery and
Use
Data is annotated and
openly available,
notebooks are shared
Short, citable
publications are shared
early and often
Early forms of article are posted
and available for comment, and
various forms of review
Article is a living publication,
able to be updated, versioned,
and open access
Research objects are
networked to each other
and available for real-time
collaboration
Incentives and rewards
motivate the behavior
at each stage

4. Challenges in research communication
Slow
Static
Incentives don’t work
Entrenched commercialization

5. The path is
not linear

6. Coko believes...
No one platform can solve all the problems.
We need an ecosystem of tools and software.
We should build modular & interoperable things.
The community must create and own solutions.

7. Coko’s Editoria Coko’s xPub
eLife
Libero
OJS
WaxTexture
StencilaDAT INK
xSweet
Science
Fair
Substance
library
Platforms
Tools
The Open Ecosystem
CERN’s Invidio
Services
Open
Review
Collabor-
ation
Hosting
3rd Party
Peer
Review
Copy-
editing
Pop-up
Publishing

8. ConversionSubmission
Semantics
enhancers
AnnotationNotebooks Metadata
Peer
review
Versions
Production
PubSweet Publishing Framework
Authoring
Editorial
tools
Revision
Syndica-
tion
Web
delivery
Reviewer
matching
Real-time
collabora-
tion
Discovery
tools
Open, modular architecture
enables innovation and
collaboration

9. PubSweet
Three use cases (so far)
Books
Journals
Micropublications
Design Development cycles Testing Launch

10. Service providers
Partnering tech
organizations
First wave adoption
Early adopters
Code contributors
Core OS project
Broad
Community
Community
Led Open
Source
Core OS
project
Core OS
project

11. It’s working
An improvement for one becomes
an improvement for all.
Individual communities can focus
on core areas of expertise — peer
review, hosting, discovery —
knowing that their innovations will
improve the entire system.
The result is more creativity, a
more diverse set of solutions, and,
ultimately, faster progress.
-Andrew Smeall, Hindawi
Having other people build
components to solve the problems
you are facing is a great benefit of
a common infrastructure.
but also knowing that what you’re
building is useful to more than just
your team really adds energy and
purpose to our teams of developers
and designers.
-Paul Shannon, eLife

12. Successful Open Source Projects
● The internet: TCP/IP (governing protocols), BIND (DNS resolver)
● The Web: 75% adoption of OS browsers (Chrome, Firefox), 50% of websites
delivered by Apache web server
● Computers: Android + Apple (built on OS BSD Kernel) have twice as much
adoption as Windows
● Phones: Android, iOS (built on OS Darwin operating system) dominate
● Cloud hosting services: OpenStack has 17% market share against Amazon,
Microsoft and Google – hundreds of companies (ATT, Cisco, NEC, Intel)

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Get in touch:
@kristenratan
Kristen at coko.foundation