PubPub Team

Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries around the country.

We investigated the role of AXL in Zika virus infection of neural progenitor cells. Here, I summarize our findings in laymen's terms.

A quick example pub that lets you directly collaborate, discussions, and play around!

This is a sample pub that is set to have public collaboration. Edits and conversation from all are accepted!

This paper explores the enclosure of common land in predominantly agrarian economies where poor rural inhabitants are disproportionally affected.

Only if New Zealand communities help guide development of the technology.

Video recordings of public presentations and presentation material

Intentionally or unintentionally, poorly crafted or outdated laws and technical standards threaten to undermine security, privacy

An international team describes their research plan to develop daisy drive in nematode worms (MIT) and mosquitoes (Pirbright Institute).

This pub contains grant documents including project abstracts and a detailed project narrative

A mutually responsive approach to developing technologies that alter shared ecosystems

A detailed technical description of research to be performed by the daisy drive team with Safe Genes funding.

We should move towards an open and responsive model of science and technology development.

RNA-guided gene drive elements could address many ecological problems by altering the traits of wild organisms, but the likelihood of global spread tremendously complicates ethical development and use. Here we detail a localized form of CRISPR-based gene drive.

Here we describe a method for visualizing and manipulating memories in the rodent brain

How do I: create my own community? | create a PubPub profile? | submit a pub to a community? | create pages? | format pages? | delete a pub? | delete a community?

What is PubPub? Why does it exist? | What are some characteristics that make PubPub unique? | Who is PubPub for? | How do I start a community? | Dictionary of terms

How do I: title a new pub? | use tags? | insert images, video, equations, Latex Math, citations, code, etc? | format and change the size of images and videos? | format my text? | add and manage chapters?

How do I: add collaborators to a pub? | add admins to a community? | share my working draft? | organize the layout of content in a collection? | manage privacy and permission settings for my pub? | add collaborators to a version? | publish? | begin a review process?

How do I: comment on a pub? | embed comments within my pub? | cite a pub? | cite a specific/older draft of a pub? | see older versions of a pub? | create my own discussion channel? | export a pub? | share a pub on social media?

Example journal made as a placeholder to start.

Your February 2020 PubPub newsletter

Reference for editing and formatting your Pubs.

Reference for managing, sharing, and reviewing your pub.

Manage your user profile.

Create, layout, and set options for pages.

Your August 2021 PubPub Community Update

Your October 2019 PubPub newsletter

Your December 2019 PubPub newsletter

"The new platform will empower authors to move beyond traditional, static article design by incorporating multimedia features, interactive tables and graphs, and easy sharing options for their research."

"The AAS has been at the forefront of publishing innovation for many years as one of the first societies to host its flagship research journals online. 'The new community on PubPub  represents a continuation of that tradition,' notes AAS Innovation Scientist Peter K. G. Williams"

Your March 2020 PubPub newsletter

Your April 2020 PubPub newsletter

"Launching audio/visual preprints takes scholarly communication to the next level - giving scientists the multimedia platform to express their expertise not only in text but truly engaging with other researchers."

Your May 2020 PubPub newsletter

Your June 2020 PubPub newsletter

The KFG is hiring an Editorial Manager to help curate and produce content for two of its products, PubPub, a collaborative and open publishing tool for the academic web, and Commonplace, a new publication of the KFG.

Your July 2020 PubPub newsletter

Your August 2020 PubPub newsletter

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Your October 2020 PubPub newsletter

KFG embraces mentorship and sponsorship activities designed to uplift employees and eliminate barriers that hinder progress.

Wondering if PubPub is right for you? Start here for an honest description of its strengths and weaknesses, as well as possible alternatives to try if it's not a fit.

A simple guide and best practices to use as a starting point for creating your journal.

A simple guide and best practices to use as a starting point for creating both individual books and book collections.

The basic concepts you'll need to know to publish content of any type on PubPub

A simple guide and best practices to use as a starting point for creating conference websites and proceedings listings.

PubPub can be used to create almost any type of content, from digital collections to preprint servers, repositories, blogs, and hard-to-categorize creations. Here are some ideas and examples to use as inspiration if you're coming to PubPub with a novel project in mind.

Your November 2020 PubPub newsletter

Help build better futures for open academic publishing with a thoughtfully remote, mission-driven team.

Additional information about the editorial and production process

A look at key milestones and growth from 2020

Some basic notes on how PubPub works and why

A crowd-sourced and growing accounting of unaffordable ebooks and texts

With PubPub, anyone can publish and distribute meaningful, impactful reviews with appropriate metadata that can be picked up by aggregators in about an hour — at no cost and with no technical expertise required.

PubPub uses Pandoc to convert from LaTeX to HTML, and KaTeX to render LaTeX math blocks in browsers. Both Pandoc and KaTeX have limitations that can lead to issues with imported LaTeX. This Pub covers common issues and how they can be resolved.

Design Justice and HDSR secure PROSE wins, and Data Feminism was honored as a finalist by the Association of American Publisher's prestigious 2021 PROSE awards. All are published on PubPub by the MIT Press.

General info about PubPub and it's key features

Your March 2021 PubPub Community Update

Your February 2021 PubPub Community Update

A few things we crossed off our to-do list in February

The team grows + an important heads-up + input about review features

Your October 2021 PubPub Community Update

Transform research and engage your audience with interactive charts, maps, polls, and more

Some exciting behind-the-scenes improvements, and a peak at what's coming next: two of our most-requested features!

Some PubPub users may find this resource helpful when establishing working and publishing agreements with their authors.

The first of the journal's exhibits features work from artist Susan Clinard

Your April 2021 PubPub Community Update

Your May 2021 PubPub Community Update

Your July 2021 PubPub Community Update

Meet your new activity dashboard!

This is nothing

A method that lets researchers perform mass spectrometry-based proteomics experiments and build a new reference protein database to help interpret that data in parallel work streams.

February Newsletter

Submissions functionality now live on PubPub!

An evolving list of communities on PubPub accross genres and use cases

Attaining and maintaining support for an open access literary journal.

A blueprint for conducting outreach and creating educational content.

ORCID in Crossref Deposits, Right-to-left text editing, Improved math editing, Rich Text Titles, "My Pubs" in Dashboard

On creating a multi-media classroom for discussing an ancient text

Looking into how other MIT Language classes use PubPub in their classroom

A Q&A with the Global Languages Instructional Technologist at MIT

An interview with Technoetic Arts journal's Editorial Organism

Off-University creates new strategies to uphold and sustain academic life and knowledge threatened by anti-democratic and authoritarian regimes.

Copyediting, archiving & indexing, audiobooks and articles, and OER support round out PubPub's slate of 12 Community Services

FAQ's about use of H5P videos in instruction and self-learning

Hosted on March 14, 2023 @ 11 AM ET. Join us to chat about all things OER! 

Reviewing Reviews in Digital Humanities

James Smith introduces his use of PubPub as an interfacing tool for a broad-ranging creative project, featuring port communities in the British Isles and the artists who define them.

Martin Crampin describes the artistic side of Creative Commons, featuring port communities in the British Isles. How did they commission, curate, and exhibit a project highlighting five ports across two countries all while making it digital?