Development Environment
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The open-source, community-led, end-to-end publishing platform for knowledge communities.
Create knowledge. Share it with audiences who care.
Mission
As a product of the Knowledge Futures Group, PubPub is open and accessible to all. That means a free, robust version of PubPub will always be available, operating under a non-profit, sustainable business model.
Open & Community-Led
Key Features
Collaborate & edit with co-authors in real time
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- Keep everyone in the loop
- Assign roles on-the-fly
Import your work from any source
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- Easy multi-file imports
- Complex-content friendly
- Word, XML, LaTeX, and Markdown
Embed rich multimedia in your publication
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- Data visualizations
- Images, videos, and math
- Code, interactives, and more
Other Features
DOI Support
Generate CrossRef DOIs for your documents in one click.
Submissions & Review
Manage submissions and peer review directly on PubPub.
Discussions & Annotations
Host public and private discussions with your readers and community, whether in your classroom or across the world.
Easily Customizable Layouts
Create your custom site without writing a line of code.
Collection Metadata
Include article & collection-level metadata for easier organization of content and improved discovery.
Access Control
Allow anyone to access your content, or just the people you choose.
Impact Measurement
Learn about the people visiting your community with a full suite of privacy-respecting analytics.
Content Connections
Add typed relationships — reviews, commentary, supplement, etc. — to your content and deposit them to Crossref.
Document Export
Export your work to PDF, Word, Markdown, LaTeX, JATS XML, and more.
Community Services
For groups that want personalized support we offer production, training, and strategy services for building high quality, effective publishing communities.
"The team’s innovation and experience made for an incredible collaboration."
- Jeremy Bailenson, Author, “A Theoretical Argument for the Causes of Zoom Fatigue”
Use Cases
Thousands of communities are tailoring PubPub to suit their publishing needs, goals, and content types.
Journals / Science
Harvard Data Science Review
A microscopic, telescopic & kaleidoscopic view of data science.
Books / Literature
Frankenbook
A collaborative, multimedia reading experiment with Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
Resources / Case studies
SERC Ethical Computing
A series on the social and ethical responsibilities of computing.
Exhibits / Arts
Contours Collaborations
A series on the social and ethical responsibilities of computing.
Student Journals / Interdisciplinary
Grad Journal of Food Studies
An international student-run and refereed platform dedicated to encouraging and promoting interdisciplinary food scholarship at the graduate level
Collections / Open humanities
MIT Press Open Architecture
An open collection of out-of-print humanities books.
Create
Anyone can start a PubPub Community, anytime, for free.
* A community can be your individual space to create content, or you can invite others to collaborate with you!
PubPub empowers knowledge communities to define their own community engagement models and manage their publishing workflows. Use PubPub to more closely align knowledge sharing with community building.
