The Opening Scholarly Communication in Social Sciences project OSCOSS

TL;DR

The OSCOSS project aims to enhance social science scholarly communication by providing integrated support for all stages from writing to consumption, focusing on authors, reviewers, and readers.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive platform supporting the entire social science publication process, integrating collaboration, data management, review, and dissemination.

Findings

Development of an integrated communication platform

Support for collaborative writing and data integration

Facilitation of peer review and article consumption

Abstract

The OSCOSS project (Opening Scholarly Communication in Social Sciences), which will be outlined, aims at providing integrated support for all steps of the scholarly communication process. Incl. collaborative writing of a scientific paper, collecting data related to existing publications, interpreting and including data in a paper, submitting the paper for peer review, reviewing the paper, publishing an article, and, finally, facilitating its consumption by readers. The OSCOSS project will support this process considering in particular the perspective of three main actors detailed in the use case descriptions below: readers, authors and reviewers.