Thanks to a generous grant from Wellcome, eLife will continue to invest in open infrastructure to facilitate communities around the world in adopting sustainable open publishing, including partnering with PKP to develop a free open source tool for open access journals to produce JATS XML, which in turn will help break down barriers to meeting industry standards and equitable publishing.
Juan Pablo Alperin, PKP’s Scientific Director, adds clarity about PKP’s role in this partnership:
Our role in this partnership will be to contribute expertise in document parsing and to explore how they can be used to help do XML-based production in ways that can be integrated with the new tools coming in OJS 3.6. The work also overlaps nicely with the collaborative metadata quality work we’ve been doing through COMET, which is also looking to learn how good quality metadata can be extracted from manuscripts at scale.
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