Shared open infrastructure would transform research communication to make it faster, more open, and more complete. But the publishing industry continues to rely on closed, proprietary legacy platforms that put their data and business at risk. This is resulting in a lack of innovation at a time when we need research to speed up and be more accessible. Investment in open and shared infrastructure would radically improve scientific and scholarly communication.

1. Publishing Infrastructure:
The Good, The Bad, and The
Expensive
November 13, 2018
Kristen Ratan
@kristenratan

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But, mired in print paradigms and legacy
infrastructure, scholarly communication
is slow, incomplete, and often closed

5. To improve what’s published, we need to
move out of content and platform silos
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7. Typesetting, print

8. 1.Rapid
2. Complete
3. Open

9. Common
Custom

10. Telecom

11. Banking

12. Airline

13. Publishing

15. Risks of proprietary infrastructure

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

18. PubSweet
Three platformuse cases (so far)
Books
Journals
Micro/mini-publications
Design Development cycles Testing Launch

20. No single platform can
meet all and future needs
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24. Kristen Ratan
CoFounder and Executive Director
Coko Foundation
@kristenratan