Publishing Systems that Enable Collaboration and Build Community

The publishing process has become highly automated, with online systems handling much of the coordination and communication between authors, editors, reviewers and other professionals involved in the scholarly publishing endeavor. Technology is not just used to keep the publishing process organized, tools and microservices are now being seamlessly integrated into workflows, increasing the efficiency for all participants in the value chain, assisting our shared infrastructure, and ultimately shortening the time from submission to publication. Online publishing systems also offer the opportunity for organizations that serve the scholarly researcher to collaborate, providing important services directly to the researcher and publisher during the publishing process. Nonprofits that provide industrywide standards are integrated into the workflow alongside commercial companies that build new and innovative products. Suppliers of PIDs, like ORICD and Ringgold, help connect people, places and money. Those PIDs are used by services the OA Switchboard to facilitate funding recognition. Initiatives like the STM Research Integrity Hub and AAMC's Convey help reinforce trust in science by identifying potential fraud in research. Companies like Prophy help editors increase diversity in their reviewer pool, helping to relieve the crisis in peer review. All of these organization are made more efficient through integration with automated workflows. In this session, we will discuss how a modern, modular microservice-based workflow system can be designed to encourage collaboration. Each of the above-named services will discuss how they are involved in building scholarly community. Together we will show how our scholarly shared infrastructure is made more accessible when these services are easily available to researchers, editors and publishers, through online systems.