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and more thoughtful way. ‘We found in PubPub, a mission-aligned
initiative, providing a transparent and open source space for us to talk about what we are doing, exposing new audiences, including libraries, artists, and the general public,’ notes Dan Rudmann, director for community relations. The clean interface makes posts on new books, thought pieces, and news distinctive and readable. Export options ensure content portability and remove fear of lock-in. The team also uses PubPub for collaborative authoring. KFG is experiencing more interest in
shifting sites from WordPress or Medium to an open source not-for-profit option, for reasons ranging from mission alignment to cost savings to usability. In response, we now offer, as a paid service, the ability to migrate back files from WordPress to PubPub.
COPIM Project The Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, funded by Research England, is a partnership of scholar led presses, universities, and infrastructure providers, working to develop ‘open, transparent, sustainable, and community-governed infrastructures for the curation, dissemination, discovery, and long- term preservation of open content and open data’. COPIM is using PubPub for open documentation. Dan Rudmann of Punctum, a partner in the project, highlights the need for transparency throughout the project, which consists of seven work packages that may not proceed linearly. ‘By collaborating on and incrementally creating documentation on PubPub, we ease the overall reporting burden of the project. The flexible nature of the platform enables us to point people to the relevant portion of the workflow, including video capture of workshops and lectures.’ When used for collaborative editing, PubPub provides an open alternative to Google docs; one which can, if desired, support publication with DOI- assignment and simple metadata creation.
Community feedback Annotation and reader engagement has long been a focus of the KFG’s publishing platform, PubPub. Over time, we’ve benefitted from close collaborations with partners that have given way to common use-cases for using annotation to improve the communication and understanding of research. For example, the MIT Press has a series of publications posted on PubPub for open community review before publication, such as Data Feminism and Economics in the Age of Covid-19.
www.researchinformation.info | @researchinfo Learning from these exchanges, the
KFG recently launched a new publication, the Commonplace, which serves as a conversation and idea hub for mission- aligned individuals and organisations working to make knowledge open for the public good. It has dedicated content formats
ranging from annotated reading lists to open reports posted for community engagement and feedback. ‘Community feedback is foundational
to the Commonplace.’ notes Catherine Ahearn, head of content for PubPub and the Knowledge Futures Group. ‘Exchanges between readers and authors, researchers and institutions, technologists and policy-makers are key to making sure we publish toward progress and bottom-up, community- centred change.’ Recent examples of reports posted for open annotation include Equitable access to research in a changing world: Research4Life Landscape and Situation Analysis. and Researchers’ Perspectives on the Purpose and Value of the Monograph. The Commonplace seeks contributors and active readers across all content formats.
“The American Psychological Association partners with KFG to deliver open access journal content”
Journals New OA journals have found a home on PubPub. The American Psychological Association partners with KFG to deliver open access journal content on an innovative and community focused platform. This partnership allows APA Journals to highlight its vision of open access by publishing scholarship in a dynamic and interactive format, remaining flexible so that the community can help shape the platform, and promoting open science and transparent practices in psychology. The first title, Technology, Mind, and Behavior recently published its first article, ‘Country Roads through 1s and 0s’, which explores whether video games can instill an emotional connection with physical spaces and includes an interactive map depicting locations from the game Fallout 76. Free-to-read publications that wish
to shift from WordPress are particularly suitable for experimentation. We
partnered with the American Astronomical Society (AAS), one of the first societies to put its flagship research journals online, to host the Bulletin of the AAS (BAAS), an open access journal of community white papers, news and commentary, meeting abstracts, and obituaries. ‘The new community on PubPub represents a continuation of that tradition of innovation,’ said AAS Innovation Scientist, Peter K. G. Williams. ‘We’re looking forward to using PubPub to explore the ways that scientific communication can evolve to fully take advantage of 21st century tools.’ These publications join others from MIT, Harvard, and Stanford.
Conferences With the capacity to host textual and multimedia content, PubPub provides space for showcasing conferences. Iowa State University Library’s Iowa State Digital Press recently used PubPub for two events: The U.S. Latino/a Studies Program, 25 Year Anniversary Symposium Digital Proceedings and Proceedings of a Workshop on Developing a Convergence Sustainable Urban Systems Agenda for Redesigning the Urban-Rural Interface along the Mississippi Watershed (SUS- RURI). While Iowa State hosts recurring conference proceedings on Janeway, Harrison Inefuku noted that ‘for one- off events with a visual or collaborative component, PubPub was an easy way to spin up a conference site. Iowa State wants to support open source solutions that will transform scholarly communications’. Sites such as Celebrating Millie, a 2017 memorial for physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, can be crafted after the physical events. #SpreadingFacts, hosted by MIT in December 2019, utilised PubPub for promotion, live streaming, and connecting viewers with multimedia outputs.
What’s next? KFG’s Community Publishing Program provides tools and support for publication options ranging from informal blogs, student publications, library publishing, to more formal university press-like offerings. There is always a completely free version of PubPub available for groups looking to test out tools or experiment alongside paid services offered by the KFG team for groups hoping to engage in more complex work. We are eager to see how these collaborations evolve. Ri
Heather Staines is head of partnerships at Knowledge Futures Group. A fully-referenced/ linked version of this article is available at
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