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Self-host a scientific journal with eLife Lens
- phireal 11y agoIs there a tool which will convert a LaTeX source file or Word document into the necessary format for eLife Lens? If I can avoid it, I'd rather not have to manually reformat my file into the eLife format.
- kartikkumar 11y agoYea I was thinking the same thing. I just got a paper published in Icarus and this would be a great way to provide access to the research, but I don’t really have the time to manually reformat my LaTeX source.
- thanatosmin 11y agoThere are some useful tools for editing JATS files (and apparently converting from Word) here: http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/jats/index.php/Tools http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/jats/index.php/T...
- phireal 11y agoOK, I had a quick search and apparently going from LaTeX to markdown to JATS XML (with pandoc) [1] [2] is the least horrible way. [1] https://github.com/mfenner/pandoc-jat https://github.com/mfenner/pandoc-jat [2] http://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/12/12/from-markdown-to-jats-xml-in-one-step http://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/12/12/from-markdown-to-jat...
- thanatosmin 11y agoVery nice. eLife has always been a joy to read, and has some high quality articles in my field. Aside from the difficulties of learning JATS XML, this could be a very nice way to edit articles before submission as an alternative to Latex/Word.
- arcanus 11y agoLaTeX is ubiquitous in my research field. I'm skeptical anything that cannot parsed .tex will have a chance of competing, at least in the short term.
- 98Windows 11y agoWould the arvix ever use this?
- blueblob 11y agoShort term, doubtful since the majority of ArXiv papers are math/physics papers and latex is popular in both of those fields.
- tomkinstinch 11y agoAs an aside, for the biological sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory operates the biorxiv: http://biorxiv.org/ http://biorxiv.org/
- arcanus 11y agoI'm curious if anyone has seen how equations come out looking with this? I always cringe when I see non-TeX equations in presentations, at this point.
- imulvany 11y agoLens has support for MathJaX, so math comes out looking pretty well. The AMS have been helping with the development. See this for an example http://lens.elifesciences.org/03568/index.html?_ga=1.118118656.885554652.1423743368 http://lens.elifesciences.org/03568/index.html?_ga=1.1181186...
- p4bl0 11y agoI'm quite active in the open access movement in France. And most of the people I meet agree that SJS is a dead-end because its creator categorically decline to open source the software (he wants to be able to sell it). Apart from that, but it has already been pointed out here, I don't believe that something not able to at least read TeX sources can easily be transitioned to.
- p4bl0 11y agoMh, well, I'm just seeing now that I started writing about SJS [1] and didn't finish my point about Lens… And nobody pointed out that I was off-topic? So what I was going to append to my first paragraph is this: In that respect, it's nice to see that Lens is open source, but the title is still a bit misleading: from what I understand Lens is "only" a novel way of presenting/reading papers, not a journal management system (which requires many features such as managing the peer-reviewing process). [1] Yes I forgot the link too: http://www.sjscience.org/ http://www.sjscience.org/
- imulvany 11y agoThat's true. Most publishers systems for submission, review and journal hosting are totally different systems. Lens fits in on the hosting side, not the submissions or review side, but we are interested in looking at how it could contribute in the review stage too.