The project „Die Open Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS APS) als Publikationssoftware etablieren und relevante Akteure vernetzen“ (OS-APS NET), with a planned duration of two years, has been approved by the DFG.
Given the challenges associated with XML workflows at university publishing services and university presses—which often manifest as a lack of expertise and limited staff resources—the Open Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS) offers an infrastructure solution that has already proven itself in production use by various stakeholders. However, the OS-APS community network remains loose, and the documentation of workflows and the use of OS-APS still has room for improvement. The proposed project therefore aims to consolidate, expand, and sustainably document the existing knowledge of users. The software’s existing potential is to be identified and leveraged so that, in the medium term, OS-APS can establish itself as a publishing tool for institutional providers and be used independently by interested institutions without a high need for consultation.
To the software: https://os-aps.de/