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，出版若干系列的语言学专著。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。这样一个平台被语言社区视为理想，大量杰出的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，创造一个高影响力的品牌。我们想要开发的平台将以最小的成本运行几个语言系列。除了审查之外，无论如何，这是由研究界完成的，我们也试图分配排版和校对的工作，并解决生产过程中这些昂贵和耗时的部分所带来的问题。虽然制作语言学专著所需的大部分软件都是可用的，但一些关键的部分仍然缺失。有一个制作书籍的工作流程软件，例如开放专著出版社（OMP），将在该项目中使用。存在用于排版的LATEX包。然而，将LATEX文档转换成电子书和XML的问题还没有解决。我们计划建立一组标准的LATEX宏，这些宏可以转换为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督，他将负责记录成本，并确保可持续商业模式的发展。

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.