Opening Scholarly Communication in Social Sciences: Supporting Open Peer Review with Fidus Writer

TL;DR

This paper introduces OSCOSS, a system designed to enhance open peer review in social sciences, aiming to make scholarly communication more transparent, accessible, and incentivize open access publishing.

Contribution

It presents the OSCOSS framework and demonstrates its application in supporting open peer review within social sciences journals.

Findings

OSCOSS can facilitate wider acceptance of open peer review.

The system promotes open access and reusability of scholarly content.

It has the potential to convert closed journals into open access platforms.

Abstract

Our system will initially provide readers, authors and reviewers with an alternative, thus having the potential to gain wider acceptance and gradually replace the old, incoherent publication process of our journals and of others in related fields. It will make journals more "open" (in terms of reusability) that are open access already, and it has the potential to serve as an incentive for turning "closed" journals into open access ones. In this poster paper we will present the framework of the OSCOSS system and highlight the reviewer use case.