Francesca Di Donato
Patrick Gendre
Elena Giglia
Arnaud Gingold
Maciej Maryl
Tom Mowlam
Ghislain Sillaume
Heather Staines
Sofie Wennström
2018-07-30
<p>This white paper has been elaborated by the Tools (R&D) Working Group, one of the 7 Working Groups<br>
launched by the OPERAS research infrastructure. The Working Group goal was to set up a list of tools<br>
and development which need to be done, to improve their usability for the OPERAS partners.</p>
<p>The approach in OPERAS emphasizes the importance of building the open science scholarly<br>
communication infrastructure in Social Sciences and Humanities on community driven tools. In<br>
this perspective, the development of Open Source tools and the setup of a toolbox appear to be<br>
appropriate answers to the existing needs and evolutions in scholarly publishing.</p>
<p>Following a first discussion in the Working Group, participants discussed the partners’ practices and<br>
needs to help focus the Working Group objectives on three functions:<br>
–– Peer review: interest in emerging practices such as open peer review, peer review tracking<br>
–– Authoring: interest in simple and all-in-one services, especially online and collaborative authoring<br>
–– Publishing: in particular, simple tools needed by small academic journals</p>
<p>The main results of the Working Group are:<br>
–– Notes on observed trends<br>
–– A common approach and criteria for choosing tools<br>
–– A list of relevant tools, detailing features and functionalities<br>
–– An analysis of the current needs of the partners</p>
<p>For Peer Review, the reviewing workflow is implemented in most Open Source software like Open<br>
Journal System (OJS) but developments are still needed to match the commercial software services.<br>
Similarly, the review tracking data available via services such as Publons is currently not open. The<br>
emerging trend for Open Peer Review represents an innovative area, both in terms of usage and tools.</p>
<p>For Authoring, we see a bloom of new online and collaborative tools. Promising Open Source software<br>
for editing structured scholarly content are being developed and are near to production, alongside<br>
commercial tools such as Authorea or Overleaf. One of the main challenges, in this case, is to obtain a<br>
continuous production environment through interoperability.</p>
<p>For Publishing, several Open Source software solutions are already used in production, but, as the<br>
level of service expected from a publication service is rising and includes a growing number of thirdparty<br>
services, the community is considering ways of working together to combine their effort to be<br>
comparable with the state of the art of the commercial solutions.</p>
<p>The Operas partners are willing to go beyond this working group and consider engaging in follow-up<br>
projects, notably to help create a resource centre dedicated to providing the community with current<br>
information and support on scholarly communication software and tools, and to contribute to the<br>
effort in developing Open Source tools.</p>
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