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Primo

Authoring platform

The proposed software solution (code named Primo) is poised for first beta release during late 2019. It is a cross-platform authoring framework distributed free to authors looking for a software setup that assists them to write out their academic articles to meet the modern standards of academic publishing. Primo has two aspects: (i) features aimed at authors and (ii) features beneficial to publishers.

The publishers can either host the framework in their servcers prompting intending authors to create their articles and submit the same instantaneously or they can enter into contracts with trivic so that authors who have downloaded free version can also submit to their submission systems. The publishers have several benefits as listed below over and above those in article profiling page.

For authors

  • General features:
    • WYSIWYG and cross-platform
    • Free technical support
    • Limited article scoring to predict acceptance by publishers
  • Output: PDF, source in custom file format.
  • Artwork: Artwork validation.
  • Collaboration: Collaborative authoring with co-authors.
  • Version control: Version control system is builtin.
  • Reuse: Author and Reviewer can use the same environment with different features. This works only with supported publishers.
  • Assisted authoring:
    • Math entry shall be either in LATEX format or through WYSIWYG interface
    • Assisted front matter entry, the most complicated author-affiliation entry becomes a pleasure
    • Support for very long abstracts
    • Save/grab data to/from Figshare
    • Save/grab data to/from Dropbox
    • Save/grab data to/from Google Drive
    • DOI check with CrossRef
    • ORCID check
    • Bibliography assistance
    • Math formulae/equation assistance

Publishers version

  • Completeness and usability — Primo will check the completeness of submission from a technical point of view like missing items and hence usability of the submission will be evaluated.
  • Author profile — authors’ profile will be evaluated on the basis of previous publications, Google Scholar or similar frameworks.
  • Article profile — will be evaluated on the basis of several parameters as listed in the article profiling page.
  • Article scoring — a score that will tentatively provide an index telling about its possibility of acceptance.
  • Artwork validation — a tentative validation of artwork will be done on the basis of parameters set by publishers.
  • Review of article — if configured for reviewing, reviewers can straightforwardly use the data for reviewing with features needed for the same.
  • Reuse of article data — Author and Reviewer can use the same environment with different set of features required to meet their specific objectives.
  • XML version of articles — once submitted, XML version of the submission will be auto-generated which saves a lot of resources for the publishers.