Open Manuscript Initiative
Open standards for portable scholarly publishing
Write naturally. Structure once. Publish everywhere.
OMI provides an open and interoperable foundation for creating, reviewing, exchanging, publishing and preserving scholarly manuscripts.
A scholarly manuscript is more than formatted text
Open Manuscript Initiative keeps structure, metadata, contributors, citations, annotations and revisions as meaningful scholarly information instead of rebuilding them at every publishing step.
From manuscript to publication
Multilingual authoring and interface
Double-blind peer review
OJS publishing workflow integration
Portable local-first manuscripts
Multiple publishing and production exports
Open Manuscript Studio · 0.1.0-alpha.2
Development status
A working reference implementation
Open Manuscript Studio is available in the browser and as desktop builds for Windows, macOS and Linux. The alpha already includes accounts, peer review, OJS workflows, structured import/export, publisher profiles and integration foundations.
Write naturally. Structure once. Publish everywhere.
OMI provides an open and interoperable foundation for creating, reviewing, exchanging, publishing and preserving scholarly manuscripts.