eLife, in collaboration with the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), has launched the first release of Libero Reviewer, an open-source application that will support the organisation’s unique editorial process from submission to acceptance.
The first release takes the form of a wizard that guides an author through submitting their work for initial assessment by eLife’s board of Senior Editors and integrates with the journal’s existing peer-review software, eJournalPress (eJPress). It follows the same mobile-first mentality that was incorporated into the design of eLife’s publishing platform Libero Publisher, making it easier to navigate the system while on the move.
The work follows the announcement from eLife and Coko in 2017 that they joined forces to build a user-driven, open-source solution for the submission and peer review of manuscripts, as part of a complete end-to-end workflow for publishing. The partnership formed after Coko’s work with University of California Press and soon led to a community, with organisations such as Hindawi Limited and Europe PMC committing their efforts to the project. The group works towards the common goal of improving how new research is captured and communicated.
eLife’s initial submission wizard now provides a user experience for scientists that is both intuitive and efficient. The application makes use of eLife’s open-source extraction tool ScienceBeam to lift the title directly from the uploaded manuscript file. Automated data extraction will be incorporated further into the full workflow, saving as much time for scientists as possible.
Each component is designed and coded with reusability in mind, meaning that everything eLife creates can theoretically be taken by any other organisation, either ‘out of the box’ or adapted to meet their individual requirements.
Design work has already begun on the remainder of the editorial process, with additional releases planned for the next several months.
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