Hindawi and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have announced the launch of a new journal - Research. Research is a new open access journal published by the Chinese Association of Science and Technology (CAST). The journal opened for submissions on March 19th with first articles expected to be published around mid 2018.
This new journal collaboration sees two publishers working together and combining their expertise to develop one journal. AAAS will use its editorial expertise to assist CAST with the development of the editorial process. Hindawi will add its operational and system expertise to develop the publishing platform and perform all production tasks.
The development of Hindawi's Publishing Partnership program started in 2016 with a project to flip subscription journals from Wiley's journal program. This work started a series of discussions on the potential for Hindawi to use its systems to collaborate with journal publishers. There were many publishers struggling with Open Access due to legacy systems and processes that were either inefficient or prohibitively expensive.
Hindawi's answer was to develop its 'white label' solution that could be utilised by other publishers to start new journals or transition existing ones to Open Access. It was developed in two configurations: complete support from submission to publication or a lighter post acceptance version, supporting from the completion of peer-review to publication.
The major work is currently being performed as part of a bigger commitment to platform development that is being undertaken in partnership with the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CoKo). eLife, University of California Press and Hindawi are all developing publication modules as part of the CoKo framework. These could be submission modules, peer-review modules or new journal platforms. One of the key goals is to release the entire code open source and to provide sufficient documentation to allow for reuse.
Hindawi's first development as part of this project is an editorial management platform to be used by publishing partners. The first version is expected to be released in early July with the first journals being published around September this year.
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