Features

Kotahi is a modern scholarly publishing platform capable of supporting multiple end-to-end publishing workflows. Below are some of the systems highlights. For more detail see the features page.

Community

Kotahi means 'unified' in Māori (we are grateful to iwi for allowing us to use the term). Be part of the Kotahi movement - join the community conversation to improve how research is shared and explore exciting new ways of publishing.

Join our mattermost chat!

Multiple Workflows

Kotahi supports multiple workflows including Journal workflows, PRC (Publish, Review, Curate) and the submission, peer review and publishing of everything from funding proposals, micropubs, and more!

Design your own review process!

Create the open, blind, double blind review process of your choice. Choose if reviewers have individual reviews or can collaborate on a shared review.

Edit articles in Kotahi

Edit or author articles in the browser! Kotahi uses the state of the art Wax web-based word processor. Track Changes, annotations, math, images, captions, grammar checks etc all supported!

Push Button Creation of JATS

Export a manuscript as a valid Journal Article Tagging Suite (JATS) XML file. You don't need any specialised knowledge of XML or JATS to take advantage of this feature. Cut your production costs down dramatically!

Push Button PDF and HTML Creation

Export beautiful PDF and HTML at the push of a button. We can help you cut your production costs to zero.

Realtime updates and chat

Kotahi is built to get the best from web collaboration and supports realtime notifications, chat, synchronized updates and more!

Copyedit your articles in Kotahi

Edit content using the inbuilt browser-based word processor. Additional features, such as inline comments and track changes make it easy to follow and discuss changes. Addtionally the inbuilt word processor can integrate with copyediting tools such as Grammerly.

Manage all metadata in Kotahi

Use the inbrowser form builder to design your own submission forms to capture and manage metadata.

Eliminate the need to continually upload and download documents

Kotahi supports a single source publishing workflow where all stakeholders are able to access the same manuscript in content creation (peer review, editing etc.) and production (copyediting, semantic tagging etc.). No need to upload and download, email and ftp files all over the place and juggle disparate versions.

Versioning

Versioning is supported so you can easily check changes to a modified manuscript.

Host anywhere

Host Kotahi in your own organisation to protect your data, or host it with a third party hosting provider. The choice is yours!

Ready to Integrate

Integrate with other publishing systems. Kotahi has a full featured API and various adapters are available for DB integrations.

Open Source

Open Source means you own it forever. No license costs. No vendor lock in. Yours, forever.

Built for innovation

Kotahi is ready for your innovations and purposely designed to be a highly modular and extensible system. The Kotahi community welcomes innovators!

Communicate with authors from within Kotahi

Use the live chat function to communicate with authors or collaborate as an editorial team.

Existing and upcoming features

You can find the code here. To see your feature ideas added to Kotahi join the Kotahi community!

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Stack
Stack
Node
React
Expressjs
GraphQL
Postgres
Minio
CokoServer
Tests
Tests
Continuous Integration
Cypress
Deployment
Deployment
Docker
Microservices
Microservices
XSweet (MS Word conversion)
Pagedjs (PDF rendering)
Anystyle (Citation parser)
FLAX (Publishing frontend)
Integrations
Integrations
Import API
Export API
Sciety
bioRxiv
medRxiv
PubMed
EuropePMC
Semantic Scholar
ORCID
CrossRef
Hypothesis
COAR notify
DocMaps
SSO Support
FLAX
ROR
Features
Features
General
General
Modern interface
Role based
Single Login for all roles
1 User, multiple roles
Integrated dashboards
Open Source
White labelable
Intuitive UI
S3 compatible storage
System
System
End to End Solution
Single Source Publishing
Multitenancy (seperate groups)
Multitenancy (move data between groups)
Configureable workflows
Plugin architecture
Workflows
Workflows
Journal workflows
Preprint reviews
PRC workflows
Conference proceedings workflows
Review-only workflow
Submission-only workflow
Production-only workflow
Micropubs workflows
Arbitary workflows (book reviews, funding proposals etc)
Admin
Admin
User management
Customisable submission forms
Customisable review forms
Customisable decision forms
Editorial team management
Customisable workflows
Frontend configuration manager
Customisable manuscripts table display
Payment Processor
Notifications and communications
Notifications and communications
Live chat (editorial team)
Live chat (with author)
Video calls (editorial team)
Email notifications
Event notifications
Task notifications
Presence indicators
Create / customise email notification templates (backend)
Interface to draft email notifcations (frontend)
Threaded discussions
Submission
Submission
Author dashboard
User profile pages
Automatic ingestion
Manual submission
Ad-hoc submission
Invited submissions
Author invitation
Attachments
URL submission support
Inbrowser article editing
Citation parsing
Docx ingestion
Submission attachments (LaTeX, zip files etc)
Support data attachments
Validate DOIs on submission/import
Article Editing
Article Editing
Math support
Semantic markup
Citation parsing
Tables
Images
Comments
Track changes
Concurrent editing
Asset manager
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial dashboard
Tokenised reviewer invitations
Tokenised author Invitations
Manuscript sorting
Customisable taxonomy
Peer review cycle overview dashboard
Versioned manuscript and metadata
Archiving submissions
State indicators
Manuscrupt grouping
Simple search
Advanced expression search
Task Management
Task Management
Task manager
Customisable Task Templates
Duration and Date Tracking
Review
Review
Reviewer Dashboard
Customisable review process
Double blind
Single blind
Open peer review
Shared review writing
Independent review writing
Production
Production
Push button JATS export
Push button PDF export
Push Button HTML Export
Automated typesetting
Copy editing
Author proofs
Corrections
Semantic tagging (XML markup)
Math
Publishing
Publishing
Customisable publishing
Easily 'select and publish' form field data
Publish anywhere
Staged publishing
FLAX management UI
Reports
Reports
Realtime reports
Summary
By role
Date range filtering
Status board