Originally published on eve.gd on 9 September 2013, last updated 6 September 2026.
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I've already tweeted this a few times, but I'm pleased to announce that, in partnership with PKP (and subject to finding the right candidate) we have a funded place for an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Lincoln to work on open source software for scholarly XML typesetting.
The University of Lincoln, in association with the Public Knowledge Project, is pleased to offer a funded place for the MSc by Research in Computer Science. The successful candidate will not only have his or her tuition fees covered, but will also receive a £2,500 tax-free bursary.
This funded place is designed to develop an open source tool for typesetting scholarly journal articles [“meTypeset”] that will be incorporated into the widely-used Open Journal Systems software. Building on existing work, the candidate will be expected to spend his or her time researching and developing relevant software engineering techniques to create a piece of production-standard software. The practical project element, structured over 9 months, will form the basis for a Masters-level dissertation piece written over the remaining 3 months.
Full details of the place can be found on the university website. We’re basically looking for candidates with expertise in:</p>
can be found on the university website
The base for the project ("meTypeset") can be found over at GitHub.
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1. ‘GitHub - MartinPaulEve/meTypeset: meTypeset is a tool to convert from Microsoft Word .docx format to NLM/JATS-XML for scholarly/scientific article typesetting.’, GitHub <https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/meTypeset>
2. Lincoln University funded MSc place details <http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/course/cmsresms/fundedplace/>
https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/meTypeset
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/course/cmsresms/fundedplace/
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The Tender Document for the European Commission's Open Access Platform Asks for an Awful Lot for Not Very Much
Designing an open source OA toolchain for books
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Janeway is pleased to announce a new collaboration with PLOS to develop and extend the Janeway codebase for use in parts of PLOS’s article submission process https://www.openlibhums.org/news/1025/
We've gone from Andy and me coding Janeway by hand, in those pre-AI days, over a weekend or so, to Janeway, a solid structure for OA journal publication workflows. Now being used and developed by a major scientific publisher.
I never had aspirations for it like this. I just wanted it to do what we needed it to do. If there is a cool way for other organisations to make it do what they need, too, so long as it does not violate our ethical principles, then that is fantastic.
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/1025/
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