Appendix 1: Examples of Community Publishing Projects

Project Title Models for Community Publishing
Levels of Born Digital Access Open community peer review
Sustainability plan
Good Practices for Acquiring Email Preservation Open community peer review with acknowledgements of reviewers
Plain language, including a glossary of jargon
NDSA Levels of Preservation Open community peer review
Post-publication Qualitative usage study
Decentralized Infrastructure for (Neuro)science Open community peer review, including the ability to continue the discuss through post-publish
Custom typesetting; openly searchable on the web
Community acknowledgements
Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary Open Community peer review for a monograph
Supporting Software Preservation Services in Research and Memory Organizations Collaborative data analysis, generation of new vocabularies through communities of practice

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