Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Essential Open Source Software for Science, Cycle 2 Center for Open Science (COS) Proposal - Advancing Sustainability and Innovation of Open Manuscript Services

Preprints (early, complete versions of manuscripts made available online before journal-organized peer review) are shifting the scholarly publishing model by accelerating open access and, potentially, open review. Making these tools interoperable with preprint infrastructure will increase the confidence of the scientific community in preprints. In addition, it will influence commercial publishing services to embrace new business models to innovate towards openness.OSF Preprints is open-source software maintained by the Center for Open Science (COS). OSF Preprints hosts 26 community-run services, providing the ideal conditions to integrate with open review platforms such as Peer Community In (PCI), PREreview, and Hypothes.is and to assess whether a fully open model can compete with and disrupt scholarly publishing across disciplines. We integrated hypothes.is and now propose to add the other platforms.With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, we are investigating how to improve trust in preprints with signals of credibility to improve chances that an open model can innovate scholarly publishing. Making those signals standard, interoperable, and machine-readable with validation will facilitate adoption and impact. We propose to build open-source open science badges for preprints to be interoperable with other scholarly publishing platforms.In 2020, COS advanced its sustainability plan for the preprints infrastructure with a distributed cost model for the shared infrastructure. Six of the services primarily serve under-resourced scholarly communities in the developing world. We request the costs for maintenance of those services for 2020 to extend their opportunity to develop institutional support for sustaining their services.