Language Science Publications: A publication model for open-access books in linguistics

该项目的目的是建立一个名为语言科学出版物的出版单位，以几个系列出版语言专著。我们希望建立和维护一个社区和社区基础设施，可以用于“白金”开放获取出版物。这样的平台被语言界视为理想的平台，大量知名语言学家支持我们的倡议，并希望与我们合作实施这样一个平台，打造一个高影响力的品牌，这就是明证。我们要开发的平台将以最低的成本运行几个语言系列。除了由研究界进行审查外，我们还试图分发排版和校对工作，并解决这些制作过程中昂贵和耗时的部分所带来的问题。尽管制作语言专著所需的大多数软件都已面世，但一些关键的部分仍然缺乏。有生产图书的工作流程软件，例如开放专著出版社(OMP)，这将在项目中使用。用于排版的乳胶包已经存在。然而，将LaTeX文档转换为电子书和XML的问题并未得到解决。我们计划建立一套标准的LaTeX宏，可以转换成XML和电子书格式。此外，我们希望通过版本控制和开放审查方面来扩展OMP软件。建立语言科学出版物的过程将由一名商业经济学家陪同和监测，他将负责成本的记录工作，并确保制定可持续的商业模式。

The purpose of the project is to establish a publishing unit called Language Science Publications for publishing linguistic monographs in several series. We want to build and maintain a community and community infrastructure that can be used for “Platinum” open-access Publications. Such a platform is seen as desideratum by the linguistic community as is evidenced by the large number of prominent linguistics who support our initiative and want to collaborate with us on implementing such a platform and create a high impact brand. The platform that we want to develop will run several linguistic series at minimal costs. In addition to reviewing that is done by the research community anyway we also try to distribute the work of typesetting and proofreading and solve the problem that these costly and time consuming parts of the production process pose. While most of the software that is needed to produce linguistic monographs is available, some crucial parts are still missing. There is workflow software for producing books, for instance Open Monograph Press (OMP), which will be used in the project. LATEX packages for typesetting exist. However, the problem of converting LATEX documents into e-books and XML is not solved. We plan to establish a standard set of LATEX macros that can be transformed into XML and the e-book formats. Furthermore we want to extend the OMP software by versioning and open review aspects. The process of setting up Language Science Publications will be accompanied and monitored by a business economist who will work on the documentation of the costs and ensure the development of a sustainable business model.