MIT to conduct an analysis of open source publishing

The MIT Press has been awarded a grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to conduct a landscape analysis and code audit of all known open source (OS) authoring and publishing platforms. 

The outcome will be a comprehensive and critical analysis of OS book production and hosting systems which will be of value to the scholarly publishing community. 

OS publishing systems have proliferated in the last decade. The final report will highlight the availability and limitations of the systems available and will inform the MIT Press’s roadmap for the publishing platform PubPub currently being codeveloped with the MIT Media Lab.

Source: MIT.

Spotted by Alison McNab.