Call for entries: The Knowledge Exchange taxonomy of Alternative Publishing Platforms  
Alternative publishing platforms represent a move away from the traditional journal as an organising principle and might differ from traditional scholarly journals in a number of ways, including publication process, governance, and underlying infrastructure. They can be regarded as examples of real innovative, open access scholarly communication or as effective "threat infrastructures" to traditional journals. These different platforms all have different aims, such as seeking to remove the barriers, constraints and costs imposed by legacy academic publishing companies, to reduce questionable practices, or make research work more deeply accessible and reusable. They also feature different ways of operation, different innovations, different business models and different structures of governance. Describing this diversity and knowing the directions in which these platforms are driving innovation, will allow us insight into what can be a confusing landscape.

In 2022, Knowledge Exchange started a project exploring what Alternative Publishing Platforms do and how they can be placed in the open scholarly communication ecosystem. In order to help guide conversations, we first published a Knowledge Exchange (KE) scoping paper on this. The next step is to identify and better understand the individual platforms. This call for entries is open to any platform working in open access publishing / communication who wishes to be included in The Knowledge Exchange taxonomy of Alternative Publishing Platforms.

The application form below is not personal – it should be filled on behalf of the entity operating the platform. Information provided in the application will be used to decide inclusion in the taxonomy, and for research purposes. Personal information (name, role, email address, etc.) about you will be treated as confidential and will only be used to verify you are entitled to give answers on behalf the platform, and to contact you to inform you about the progress of the project and announcing project results.

Your participation is voluntary. You are entitled to ask that part, or all, of the answers you gave for the application be deleted.  
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1. Name of the publishing platform *
2. URL of the publishing platform *
3. E-mail address of the respondent (this won't be shared publicly): *
4. Which research discipline(s) has the platform been designed for? *
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5. What is the governance structure of your platform? *
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6. What kind of ownership structure does your platform have? *
7. Under what type of legal entity does your platform operate (e.g. charitable organisation, (private) foundation, corporation, etc. - click here for an overview) 
8. What is the (intended) community function of the platform (readers, authors and/or editors form a community that the platform helps grow/sustain /cultivate)
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9. Which publishing functions are covered by the platform?
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10. What publication types are covered (not necessarily hosted) by your platform?
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11. Does your platform offer continuous publication (subsequent versions published on the platform or publication continually updated).
12. If you selected 'yes' at question 11, please specify:
13. Is publication initiated by:
14. At what moment does publication occur on the platform?
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15. Which peer review stages are offered at your platform?
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16. What kind of transparency of peer review does your platform offer?
17. What kind of availability of peer review(s) does your platform offer?
18. Are publications on the platform selected or rewarded on the basis of:  
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19. If you have any more information to share about the motivation of content selection, please specify:
20. What is the financial and/or sustainability model for the platform?
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21. Is your infrastructure based on:
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22. If you checked the box 'open source software', please provide a link to the source code if available:
23. Does your infrastructure have  *
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24. If you checked the box  'Interoperability with other services'  please provide more information/examples:
25. What does your platform offer regarding copyright/licensing?
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26. What does your platform offer regarding copyright?
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27. Your role at the publishing platform (this won't be shared publicly):
28. Other comments (this won't be shared publicly):
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