HighWire Press and Hypothesis have announced a partnership which adds open annotation capability to over 3,000 journals, books, reference works, and proceedings published on HighWire's JCore platform.
Publishers on HighWire's JCore platform can implement and control their own annotation layers, moderated, branded, and visible across their publications. Annotation is a fundamental activity of researchers and scholars everywhere—from taking notes, collaborating with peers, and performing pre-publication reviews, to engaging in conversations with the broader community.
Until now, annotation solutions for journals have been limited, proprietary and compartmentalized in ways that significantly constrain their utility. With the advent of a standards-based, open source and interoperable annotation paradigm, that is now changing.
Hypothesis, a non-profit annotation technology organisation launched in 2011, is working with publishers, educators, researchers, and journalists to enable annotation across the internet. Within scholarship, use cases include: pre-publication peer review, post-publication annotation and community review; authors' notes over their own work including updates to previous articles, invited discussions, enhanced footnotes, corrections and errata and more. More than 70 major publishers, platforms and technology organisations have come together in support of this interoperable vision under the Annotating All Knowledge coalition.
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