HTML & XML Publishing

Infrastructure, Interoperability, Collaboration
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Hi everyone!

I was wondering if there are any other library-led publishing partners/hosting services here? If so, what do you offer in the way of production services? Do you offer XML or HTML publishing? How do you go about this?

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[I support multilingualism. My message is written in my native language, French, and translated into English. Read the version that suits you best and feel free to respond in the same way.]

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Bonjour Rebecca ! Merci d’avoir posé la question. Il y a beaucoup de bibliothécaires engagé.e.s dans la publication académique ici. Je me permets d’attirer leur attention sur votre billet : @mdvorakova @SofieW @lisa.mueller @margobargheer @IsabellaM en particulier, nous avons besoin de votre expertise ici !

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Hello Rebecca! Thank you for asking. There are many librarians involved in academic publishing here. I would like to draw their attention to your post: @mdvorakova @SofieW @lisa.mueller @margobargheer @IsabellaM in particular, we need your expertise here!

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Hi Rebecca,

While I’m not a tech-savvy person myself, I know that many of my colleagues are experimenting with this, but the solutions provided seem to require some further refinement. Also, it depends on which platform you are using. The following refers to tools for OJS.

– I found a presentation from five years ago from the Library Publishing Coalition Conference, talking about the Grobid plugin that I thought sounded promising the last time I heard about it https://librarypublishing.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PKP-XML-Publishing-Workflows.pdf

– I also found a newer guide from 2025 on how to use the Texture plugin for OJS, which appears to be okay: https://openjournaltheme.com/how-to-create-jats-xml.

Looking at my organisation, which runs the Stockholm University Press, we decided early on to seek help in producing files for publication, and we therefore use services from an external provider. We procure a contract to ensure the lowest possible cost, and then the book series and journals will be able to enjoy this. The service we provide is specified in the publishing contract, and you can perhaps get a hint about how it works here: https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/book-publishing.

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Hi Rebecca,

I refer to OJS if not otherwise stated.
In addition to considering the valuable information provided by @SofieW, you might also

  • contact the focus group on single source publishing within the working group of University Presses - scholarly publishers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy @margobargheer;
  • check OS-APS (Open Source Academic Publishing Suite). The software is under constant development and compatible with OJS and OMP:
  • contact @xvanedig from TIB Open Publishing;
  • contact and/or join the Single Source Publishing Community which deals with general SSP questions;
  • contact my colleague @okrueger who is in charge of journal hosting at Hamburg University Press. We enable the publication of articles as html within OJS. However, we do not offer an SSP workflow.
    If you are interested in Digital Humanities issues you might be interested in our actual project . By pursuing a pragmatic approach, the project should result in an html article view that enables the display of images in a IIIF viewer within the html view in OJS. The embedded images will also be enriched (annotations and layers).
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Hi Sofie,

This is so helpful, thank you! We use OJS so I’ll be sure to check out those plugins. We aren’t in a position to offer typesetting services currently, but I’m hoping it is something we can offer in the future!

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Hi Isabella, Very helpful - thank you very much! I’ll check out those links.