Dear colleagues,

Have you ever needed to find a quick, concise description of an open source
scholarly communication tool or service? Have you wished you had a way to
compare and contrast scholarly communication tools and services based on
features like their organization model, standards adoption, or
dependencies? Welcome to our vision for the Scholarly Communication
Technology Catalogue (SComCat) <https://www.scomcat.net/>!

Created by Antleaf <http://www.antleaf.com/>, Confederation of Open Access
Repositories (COAR) <https://www.coar-repositories.org/>, and the Next
Generation Library Publishing project
<https://educopia.org/next-generation-library-publishing/>, SComCat is a
catalogue and knowledge base of scholarly communication open technologies
including software and some essential running services. SComCat’s purpose
is to assist potential users in making decisions about which technologies
they will adopt by providing an overview of the functionality,
organizational models, dependencies, use of standards, and levels of
adoption of each technology.

The scan includes tools, platforms, and standards that can be locally
adopted to support one or more of the functions of the lifecycle of
scholarly communication, which is conceptualized as including the following
activities: creation, evaluation, publication, dissemination, preservation,
and reuse. The initial data has been drawn from existing sources, including
the Mind The Gap <https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/> report (SFU, MIT)

If you know of a technology or platform that you think should be included
in this scan, please use the feedback form located on the SComCat
Contribute page <https://www.scomcat.net/contribute>.

You can learn more about SComCat and the NGLP project on the Educopia blog
<http://bit.ly/nglp-scomcat>.

With many thanks, and very best wishes,

Hannah (on behalf of the NGLP project team)
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Hannah Ballard <https://educopia.org/staff/hannah-ballard>
Director of Communications
Educopia Institute <https://educopia.org/>
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