eLife joins Substance Consortium to support development of open-source online content-editing tools | For the press | eLife

As an open-source project first started in 2010, Substance provides the building blocks for realising custom text editors and web-based publishing systems that are critical in establishing an open-source ecosystem for knowledge creation and dissemination. The developers behind Substance – Michael Aufreiter and Oliver Buchtala – were key to the 2013 release of the eLife Lens Reader. They have also helped to introduce Texture, a toolset for the production of scientific content, Stencila, an open office suite for reproducible research and Archivist, a platform for publishing interactive historical documents. In 2016, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CoKo), SciELO and Érudit formed a consortium committed to the integration and sustainability of the Substance tools.