Inspired by
Ian Mulvany’s
tweet about Vega Academic Publishing System (which does look
interesting, especially the partnership with Oslo School of Architecture
and Design). We thought we would publish the list of publishing
platforms that we keep an eye on. The list is a bit of a jumble and
includes a number of platforms like Aletheia, PubPub and Authorea aimed
at authors who want to self-publish. A number of open science
initiatives like Pluto Network, Lab Scribbles and the open archive HAL.
Publishers like Elsevier and SpringerNature who run their own platforms
but don’t open them up to other publishers aren’t listed. If we’ve got
something wrong or you want to add a platform please let us know via the
comments.
- Aletheia
A decentralised and distributed database used as a publishing platform
for scientific research. Aimed at researchers who want to self-publish.
- AMBRA
An Open Source platform for publishing Open Access research
articles. The platform is in active development by PLOS (Public Library
of Science) and is licensed under the MIT License.
- ARPHA
The first end-to-end journal publishing solution that supports the full
life cycle of a manuscript, from authoring through submission, peer
review, publication and dissemination.
- Atypon
Before its acquisition by Wiley, Atypon was the largest independent
platform provider for the STM market. Founded 1996 by CEO Georgios
Papadopoulous. Acquired by Wiley in Oct. 2016.
- Authorea
An advanced scientific writing and publishing tool which allows authors to publish their articles online
- Continuum
eLife Continuum is built using the PHP and Python open source languages,
chosen for their popularity, accessibility, and approachability. It
uses Drupal for content management. Its sites are based on Amazon Web
Services which make them scalable, flexible, and cost effective given
the “by the hour” fee structure of AWS. (MIT License)
- Copernicus.org
Copernicus Publications supports initiatives to launch and establish
open-access journals in all fields of science, technology and the
humanities.
- Digital Commons from BPress
Originally started by scholars at Berkeley in the fields of law
and economics as Berkeley Electronic Press, bepress was first
established to publish journals with improved time to publication using
an innovative incentive structure to reward peer reviewers. Aquired by
Elsevier.
- Editoria
A a web-based open source, end-to-end, authoring, editing and workflow
tool that presses and library publishers can leverage to create modern,
format-flexible, standards compliant, book-length works. Funded by the
Mellon Foundation, Editoria is being developed by the California Digital
Library, the University of California Press and the Collaborative
Knowledge Foundation
- ΕΚΤ ePublishing service
Funded by structural funds and own funds, the ePublishing service of the
National Documentation Centre, Greece, offers advanced
e-infrastructures and related services to institutional publishers in
Greece (universities, research centers, scholarly societies and memory
institutions) to publish peer-reviewed journals, proceedings and
monographs in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
- F1000
Creating funder-sponsored publication platforms, e.g. Wellcome Open Research
- Figshare
Figshare allows users to upload any file format to be previewed in
the browser so that any research output, from posters and presentations
to datasets and code, can be disseminated in a way that the current
scholarly publishing model does not allow. Powers ChemRxiv preprint server.
- Flockademic
A free platform, started in the Netherlands by software engineer Vincent
Tunru, enables academics to start their own preprint journal. Academics
can use the platform to share early research findings, as well as lab
notes, conference posters, data and other work
- Fulcrum
A digital publishing platform being developed by the University of
Michigan Library and Press working with partners from Indiana,
Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State universities. Initial
development has been supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation. Seeks partners interested in being early adopters
- Glasstree
Glasstree Academic Publishing and Glassleaf Academic Publishing Services
aim to circumnavigate traditional academic publishing boundaries by
offering a new publishing platform focused exclusively on the needs and
requirements of academic and educational authors. Grasslead is powered
by MPS.
- HighWire
HighWire is one of the three leading STM publishing platform providers, alongside Atypon and Silverchair.
- Hindawi
Hindawi provides bespoke publishing solutions to support publishers looking to embrace the opportunities offered by Open Access
- Ingenta Connect
Launched in 1999, Ingenta Connect is the most comprehensive
collection of academic and professional content online, featuring some 5
million articles from 13,000 titles and more than 250 publishers.
- Ixxus Publishing Platform
Ixxus builds digital content delivery systems for
publishers. Primarily a systems integrator, it doesn’t, however, come to
the market with a specific product.
- Janeway
Birkbeck’s Centre for Technology and Publishing’s open-source
software for academic publishing. Written in Django/Python from the
ground up and still under active development. (GNU Affero General Public License v3.0)
- JCore (see HighWire)
- JSTOR
JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization
helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the
scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable
ways.
- Literatum (see Atypon)
- Katalysis
Katalysis is a start-up based in Amsterdam founded by Alex Tran Qui and Eveline Klumpers. Katalysis
develops software based on smart contract blockchain technology aimed
to help the publishing industry with the transition from off- to online.
Katalysis’ product, Katalysis DecPub (Katalysis Decentralized
Publishing), is the first blockchain based implementation used in the
publishing industry in the Netherlands.
- Lodel
Lodel is a web publishing system, configurable
for specific needs. Lodel is installed on a (PHP) web server like many
CMS, and used remotely with a web browser. It enables to collaborative
and remote work (office, home, with distant teams). This site presents Lodel, an open source software (GPLv2) developped by le Cléo.
- Micropublication:biology
Micropublication: biology publishes atomized data, that is, each result will
receive a DOI and will be citable on its own. These citable morsels can
be used to build or enhance a new research narrative, while preserving
provenance and thus credit for the initial researcher.
- MUSE Open
Aims to ensure that Open Access (OA) monographs are visible,
discoverable, and potentially transformative in a highly diversified
platform environment.
- Open Journal SystemsOpen
Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system
that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its
federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.
- Orvium
Orvium is the first open source and decentralized framework
powered by Blockchain for managing scholarly publications’ life cycles
and the associated data. Orvium improves the quality and effectiveness
of scientific publishing while returning the benefits of science to the
society.
- OSF Preprints
A preprints service built on the OSF platform.
- Perspectivia.net
An international and interdisciplinary open-access online academic publication platform. The platform publishes articles and reviews in the humanities. Perspectivia.net operates as part of the German Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland, which is in turn financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
- Pinnacle from Allen Press
Journal platform powered by Atypon
- Pluto
PLUTO is a decentralized scholarly communication platform
powered by ethereum blockchain. PLUTO deals with all kinds of value
transfers throughout a research lifecycle. Platform’s key features
include dissemination of research achievement, open public review with
proper compensation, reasonable reputation system independent from
journals, mani-free on-demand inquiries, and efficient allocation of
reserach resources such as research funds and equipment.
- PRINCIPIA
PRINCIPIA is a blockchain-powered ecosystem for peer-review of
scientific outputs (ie, papers, patents, …). The platform allows users,
including existing publishing groups, to create and manage peer-reviewed
journals.
- PubPub
PubPub is a platform that enables the exploration of three core
experiments: 1) author-driven publishing, 2) distributed and dynamic
peer review, and 3) grassroots journals that serve as tools for
curation. Through these three experiments, we seek to uncover new paths
and opportunities for collaborative publishing. (GNU General Public License)
- PubSweet
An open framework for platform creation. It is web native, largely built
in JavaScript (specifically Node.js) by the Collaborative Knowledge
Foundation (CKF).
- Samvera
Samvera is the new name for Hydra. Samvera is a grass-roots, open source
community creating best in class digital asset management solutions for
Libraries, Archives, Museums and others.
- Scalar
Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s
designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital
scholarship online.developed at the University of Southern California on
behalf of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture. Funded by The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. (Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (ECL-2.0))
- ScholarStor
A cloud-based HTML5 solution for scholarly content that empowers
publishers to manage and render content across multiple channels. Built
by MPS.
- Scholastica
Scholastica was founded in 2011 in response to a growing need in
academia for a faster and more efficient way to peer review and publish
scholarly journals.
- SciELO
SciELO was created to meet the scientific communication needs
of developing countries and provides an efficient way to increase
visibility and access to scientific literature Originally established
in Brazil in 1997, today there are 14 countries in the SciELO network
and its journal collections. SciELO was initially supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), along with the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME)
- Science.ai
Founded by two former Princeton University researchers,
Sebastien Ballesteros and Tiffany Bogich in February 2014. Science.ai is
a science publishing platform. Fiinancially backed by members of the New York Angels, Abundance Partners, Techstars, Knight Foundation Enterprise Fund, Soundboard Angel Fund, and other individual angels.
- SCIENCEROOT
Claim to be the first blockchain-based scientific ecosystem.
Using Ethereum Smart Contracts and IPFS to create an efficient,
intuitive and transparent ecosystem that will host a journal,
collaboration and funding platform. Will be powered by its own unique
currency Science Token (ST).
- Sheridan PubFactory
PubFactory is built from the ground up to support books, reference
works and journals in a variety of XML formats, with full support for
PDF, images and other rich media.
- Silverchair Platform
Scholarly and professional publishers use the Silverchair
Platform to deliver distinctive online sites and products from their
unique content. Silverchair includes comprehensive product development
and migration services, online management tools, and ongoing support to
ensure publishers achieve their product vision.
- The Winnower
The Winnower is an open access online scholarly publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review. Now owned by Authorea.
- Ubiquity Press
Ubiquity Press was founded by researchers at University College London (UCL) in
2012. To be as close to research as possible we support university and
society-based publishing. As well as operating our own highly cost
effective press, we also provide access to the platform to give
universities and societies the infrastructure and services they need to
run their own presses, and allows societies to earn income from open
access.
- ULS E-Journal Publishing
The University Library System (ULS) from the University of Pittsburgh
- Vega
A digital publishing platform being developed under the direction of
West Virginia University for books, journals, projects, data sets, and
other scholarly output. Vega is funded by the Mellon Foundation, designed and developed by Bengler under the direction of West Virginia University and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
- Veruscript
Open access journal platform
Dedicated ebook platforms
- Draft2Digital
- Folio (see HighWire)
- Manifold
A digital book platform developed by the University of Minnesota
Press and the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York. (GNU General Public License v3)
- OpenEdition Books
The OpenEdition platform dedicated to Open Access books. OpenEdition
books is run by the Center for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo), the
french national infrastructure supported by CNRS, Aix-Marseille
University, EHESS and Avignon University
- PAGEMAJIK
PageMajik is a Publishing Workflow Management System that
takes care of your publishing needs and gives you complete control at
every step.
- PublishDrive
- Reedsy
Independent book publisher which gives authors and
publishers access to professionals, powerful tools, and free educational
content.This project has received funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No
734046.
- The Centre Mersenne
An open access publishing infrastructure for scientific publications
written in LaTeX. It provides a publication platforms and publishing
services at low cost. It is funded by the French National Center for
Scientific Research (CNRS) and Université Grenoble Alpes.
- Smashwords
Smashwords is the world’s largest distributor of indie ebooks. Founded by Mark Coker
- Streetlib
A one stop solution for independent book publishing
Open/Open Science repositories and other initiatives
- arXiv.org
An e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics,
computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance,
statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
- Clay
New York Media’s Open-Source CMS
- DEIP
DEIP is a blockchain-based scientific ecosystem which includes
a decentralized publishing platform headed by researchers themselves.
DEIP stores time-stamped proof of authorship and ownership to an
immutable distributed registry, so scientists can always have a proof of
their contribution
- EUREKA
A scientific review and rating platform fuelled by the EUREKA token from EUREKA Blockchain Solutions GmbH.
- Frankl
Frankl’s mission is to make open science easy and rewarding. Frankl apps
integrate blockchain into the scientific workflow. Frankl tokens
incentivise data sharing.
- Katalysis
Katalysis is a start-up based in Amsterdam founded by Alex Tran Qui and Eveline Klumpers. Katalysis
develops software based on smart contract blockchain technology aimed
to help the publishing industry with the transition from off- to online.
Katalysis’ product, Katalysis DecPub (Katalysis Decentralized
Publishing), is the first blockchain based implementation used in the
publishing industry in the Netherlands.
- Knowbella Tech
A blockchain based open science collaboration platform for orphan intellectual property (IP) .
- Lab Scribbles
Real-time open access science from Dr. Rachel Harding
- The open archive HAL
An open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields.
- Open Science Organization (OSO)
Open Science Organization (OSO) will be a decentralized community that
will create an open and democratic self-sustaining scientific ecosystem.
- Open Science Network
The Open Science Network is a shared open protocol on the
blockchain where researchers, universities, companies with R&D
budgets and government institutions can interact effectively with lower
barriers to entry and reduced friction in each step of the process.
- Orvium
Orvium is the first open source and decentralized framework
powered by Blockchain for managing scholarly publications’ life cycles
and the associated data. Orvium improves the quality and effectiveness
of scientific publishing while returning the benefits of science to the
society.
- Pluto Network
PLUTO is a decentralized scholarly communication platform
powered by ethereum blockchain. PLUTO deals with all kinds of value
transfers throughout a research lifecycle. Platform’s key features
include dissemination of research achievement, open public review with
proper compensation, reasonable reputation system independent from
journals, mani-free on-demand inquiries, and efficient allocation of
research resources such as research funds and equipment.
- Po.et
Po.et is a tool that allows publishers to timestamp their digital works.
Po.et uses blockchain technology in order to create digital
“fingerprints” that can mathematically prove an article hasn’t been
altered or tampered with.
- SciPost
SciPost is an online publication portal managed by and for scientists.
Preprint handling and circulation occurs through arXiv whilst the rest
of the publication process is offered by SciPost
- ScienceMatters
ScienceMatters is a scientific online publishing platform (see
also the EUREKA platform). After launching in 2016, ScienceMatters has
operated multiple journals and covers all aspects of science publishing.
- Science Media
A platform to publish content in digital form via scientific videos to
spread knowledge and animate the society for discussions. Founded by a
team of German scientists and entrepreneurs.
- SCIENCEROOT
Claim to be the first blockchain-based scientific ecosystem.
Using Ethereum Smart Contracts and IPFS to create an efficient,
intuitive and transparent ecosystem that will host a journal,
collaboration and funding platform. Will be powered by its own unique
currency Science Token (ST).
- Therapoid
Therapoid integrates a novel pre-peer review process, preprint
server for open access publishing, open data, artificial intelligence,
and managing grant funds via blockchain, all into a unified
crowdsourcing research ecosystem.
News platforms:
- Arc Publishing
Initially built for The Washington Post, Arc Publishing is a modern
publishing system engineered to meet the needs of the world’s largest
publishers.
- Chorus
Chorus is the best-in-class platform built for publishers and studios
that keeps pace with modern storytelling. Perfected over 10 years, it
has evolved into an intuitive ecosystem that enables multimedia content
creation, supports cross-platform programming, and delivers integrated,
premium advertising at scale.
Platforms that are no longer around:
- Annotum
Annotum is a product of Solvitor with heavy lifting by Crowd
Favorite, in collaboration with National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI).
- DPubS v.2
In July 2004, the Cornell University Library, in partnership with the
Pennsylvania State University Libraries and Press, initiated a project
to develop an open-source electronic publishing platform designed to
enable new models for scholarly communication and academic publishing.
- jpch (later renamed mpach)
Build by HathiTrust and the University of Michigan
- Pronoun
Pronoun is a New York-based company that provides free book
publishing, marketing, and analytics services to authors. In May of
2016, the major publishing house Macmillan bought the firm. Closed November 2017.
- Scolaris
Semantico’s content platform (acquired by HighWire)
- source:https://digital.bmj.com/an-almost-a-z-list-of-publishing-platform-providers/
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