For Publishers and Nonprofits Facing Cancellation, Publica.la Offers Services Free
peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-03-14
Summary:
"Martinez and Laurino have decided that one thing they can offer is a way for book publishers and nonprofits to deal with the cancellations and postponements of events they’re being forced to make by the coronavirus outbreak. The applicable content of a symposium, for example, can be entered into Publica’s online library, and the system’s reader and media player can be deployed to render and display that content....
Publica.la is announcing that it will make these services available free to event organizers who need a place to capture and make available a kind of virtual edition of the content of an event scuttled or rescheduled by the wrenching disruptions of the viral onslaught...."