The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and SciELO Program have announced an agreement to develop a Preprint Server system on the principles that have guided these two organisations over the last two decades.
These governing principles include recognising the value of: independent manuscript evaluation systems and related services that are open to the academic community on a global basis; comprehensive workflows for scholarly publishing that include options for preprint and post-publication commentary; and affordable open source software systems for the underlying infrastructure for scholarly communication.
PKP and SciELO plan to collaborate on the building of a Preprint Server system fully interoperable with Open Journal System (OJS) and other publishing systems that will serve SciELO Network journals and that will be made publicly available to other organisations to operate.
SciELO and PKP welcome all organisations that are interested in supporting the development of an open source multilingual Preprint Server system intended to strengthen the sustainability of open access scholarly communication in line with open science editorial practices across the disciplines. The longer term vision is for a platform that can incorporate smart pre-pub services, such as XML markup, that can add to the quality of preprints.
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