Hindawi Limited has announced the launch of a new peer review platform built using the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation's (Coko) open source PubSweet framework.
This is the first complete open-source peer review system to come out of the Coko community, a group of like-minded organisations, including eLife, the European Bioinformatics Institute, and the University of California Press, keen on working collaboratively towards the advancement of openness in scholarly communications software.
Hindawi's system is launching on the open access journal Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications. The new system will power a traditional editorial workflow, led by new Editor-in-Chief Dr. Francesco Paolo Fanizzi. Gathering feedback from editors, reviewers, and authors, Hindawi plans to extend the system to serve multiple journals running several editorial models.
Given the open source nature of the platform, other publishers, societies, and institutions will be free to reuse the software and adapt the system to new uses.
Additional details about the system and the decision to support open source is available at http://about.hindawi.com/blog/hindawi-launches-new-open-source-peer-review-system.
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