OpenPub Project Features and Rough Timeline

Frozen Feature Set for The OpenPub Project: Where Science Preprints are On Tap
– Paper uploading
– Comments
– Reviews
– Minimal Reputation
– Minimal Discovery, Tagging, & Search
– Revision
– Stable Identifiers
– User Pages
– UI
– Notification
– Logo – Amber&Mark

Build Timeline (roughly that will change)
Now – Paper uploading and commenting
March – Reviewing
April – Versioning and Identifiers
May – Tagging
June – Discovery/Search/Tagging
July – User Pages & Notifications
August – Reputation
September – DOI

UI Whiteboards

openpub, page 5

openpub, page 4

What do we need on the front page?
Lists of papers
Tags
Blurb/Manifesto
Logo!
Search box
Account features in a top bar
Login, etc.
New &Interesting/Hot(activity)/Top Rated

Point of the front page is to suck someone in…

Top level categories with the latest 3 in each category…
– can click to resort to hot and highest rated this week

Subheadings on Front Page
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Environmental Sciences
Earth Sciences
Oceanography

Tags – 10 top tags in each toplevel category

Submit images that relate to their work? Cycle fun image randomly? Get random images…and papers on the side

Search…with google?