Details
Additional uses
- COSIS.net community for advertising, other services for the administration
- of professional associations
- Conference organisation system is suitable for large, international
- meetings (> 10,000 participants)
- Online shop for the settlement of service charges
- German-speaking software developer
Functionality
COSIS.net is a web portal for scientific communities. It offers comprehensive tools for the definition of various editing and peer review workflows, among other things. It contains all the functions that are standard for peer review systems, such as differentiated reminders, a completely role-based work environment, double blind reviewing, short review forms, freely configurable email templates, reference linking, metadata push, and many others.
Distinctive features / USP
- Public / open peer review, discussion journals
- automated editor selection for large journals, using a multi-dimensional
- subject matrix
- Community integration
- Online XML editor for previews, discussion contributions, MS submission.
- Supports data integrity, minimises sources of errors and typesetting costs,
- integrated formula editor, and much more.
Technical details
- ASP (application service providing): The services detailed above are organised via email and by using a Web browser.
- Servers and programming in Berlin, servers are mirrored in Frankfurt (M.)
- open standards: PHP, MySQL, TeX, HTML, XML, epub, PDF ...
- The advantage: no local data storage or software installation necessary
- Platform independence, integration into other environments centralised maintenance, high availability, security
- Display of open access and classical journals
- Branding is possible
- Online library with search engine functionality
- Alert service
