Lession 3: Summary

Summary

What is Kotahi?

Kotahi is an open source publishing platform designed to modernise workflows for journals, preprint servers, preprint review communities, and other models. It provides a flexible system to support diverse publishing needs.

What are the key features of Kotahi?

Some key features include configurable workflows, multitenancy, automated JATS and PDF production, drag-and-drop form building, support for any metadata schema, tailored peer review, real-time communications, task management, and more.

What publishing models can Kotahi support?

Kotahi can support traditional journals, preprint servers, publish-review-curate models, overlay journals, micropublications, and more. Its flexibility enables many emerging publishing paradigms.

How does Kotahi support preprint review?

Kotahi enables the import of preprints, AI-powered recommendations, custom review forms, collaborative annotation, grouped reviews, and flexible publishing of reviews or curated collections.

What review models does Kotahi offer?

Kotahi supports single-blind, double-blind, open, collaborative, community self-review, multiple iterative rounds, and combinations of these models.

How does the Kotahi form builder work?

The intuitive drag-and-drop form builder allows creation of submission, reviewer, and decision forms without coding. Forms can be designed from templates or customised.

How does Kotahi produce JATS XML?

Kotahi provides a simple production editor for users to visually tag document sections. These are automatically mapped to JATS XML elements on export.

How does Kotahi create PDFs?

Kotahi leverages Paged.js to automatically paginate manuscripts into print-perfect PDFs with professional typesetting and formatting.

How does task management work in Kotahi?

Advanced but customisable task management allows configuring workflows at a per-group or per-manuscript level with reminders, actions, and invites.

What multitenancy capabilities does Kotahi offer?

Kotahi enables hosting multiple isolated journals, preprint servers, or review groups within one installation while retaining custom workflows for each.

How is Kotahi designed to be customisable?

Kotahi is highly configurable through its settings and also extensible via plugins, APIs, and microservices. Coko offers customisation services.

What benefits does Kotahi's architecture provide?

The microservices architecture enables independent scaling and updating of components along with overall flexibility and resilience.

How difficult is it to install Kotahi?

Kotahi utilises Docker and microservices to simplify deployment. While sysadmin skills help, the goal is accessible self-service installation. There are third-party hosting and publishing services vendors that can also help you with Kotahi hosting.

Is Kotahi open source?

Yes, Kotahi is 100% open source software published under the MIT license. The code is freely available on GitLab.