Kotahi ([https://kotahi.community/](https://kotahi.community/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1651750069391466&usg=AOvVaw2aXDdWuwDVvCp7bSj_z6AV)) is a free, open-source system for scholarly publishing, designed to support a wide variety of publishing use cases including journals, micropubs, preprints, PRC (Publish, Review, Curate), weblabs, and more. Kotahi supports multiple workflows for each of these use cases, with a key feature being the single-source publication to multiple formats. Once a document is in Kotahi, it can be exported to JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite), PDF, or HTML with the Kotahi source as the single source of truth.
[Kotahi](https://kotahi.community/) is a free, open-source system for scholarly publishing, designed to support a wide variety of publishing use cases including journals, micropubs, preprints, PRC (Publish, Review, Curate), weblabs, and more. Kotahi supports multiple workflows for each of these use cases, with a key feature being the single-source publication to multiple formats. Once a document is in Kotahi, it can be exported to JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite), PDF, or HTML with the Kotahi source as the single source of truth.
Not all workflows require every one of these output formats – it’s possible to use Kotahi for evaluating preprints residing on external servers, for example, with no need to regenerate their PDFs – but an increasing number of publishing projects aim to generate multiple formats, and Kotahi is designed to make it easy for teams with minimal format-specific knowledge to publish to any of those formats. Kotahi also versions documents; if a new version of a document is created, re-exporting in all formats is simple.
Kotahi is in active development, with a growing number of users. It is available for installation from the Coko Gitlab ([https://gitlab.coko.foundation/kotahi/kotahi](https://gitlab.coko.foundation/kotahi/kotahi)).
Kotahi is in active development, with a growing number of users. It is available for installation from the [Coko Gitlab](https://gitlab.coko.foundation/kotahi/kotahi)).
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Kotahi builds on a number of different projects produced by Coko. Major components include:
- PubSweet ([https://pubsweet.coko.foundation](https://pubsweet.coko.foundation&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1651750069399150&usg=AOvVaw1H4BknrWe_MUp_xv0G6NkH)). PubSweet is Coko’s open source framework for building state-of-the-art publishing platforms. Kotahi uses this as a component library and parts of its framework. PubSweet is written in JavaScript.
-xSweet ([https://xSweet.org](https://xsweet.org&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1651750069399824&usg=AOvVaw28dqxKRwXLIMKvCS55PIlc)). An open source high fidelity MS Word (.docx) to HTML converter. xSweet extracts the contents of MS Word documents from their underlying XML, into HTML which can then be edited as text inside of Kotahi; inline / go into Kotahi’s image store. xSweet also pulls metadata from manuscripts. xSweet is written in XSLT. See also [https://coko.foundation/articles/a-typescript-for-the-web.html](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://coko.foundation/articles/a-typescript-for-the-web.html&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1651750069400285&usg=AOvVaw1BGYHCfmWzsZ-FnxWNtybD)
-Wax ([https://waxjs.net](https://waxjs.net&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1651750069400785&usg=AOvVaw0mxZms1-cRju-Fkyve1jKC)). An open source web-based word processor with a wide variety of features which can be configured in a number of ways. Wax is at the heart of Kotahi; the Kotahi version of Wax used for producing JATS (known as Wax-JATS) allows marking up of documents in a way that can be easily translated into valid JATS. Wax and Wax-JATS are written in JavaScript.
- Paged.js ([https://pagedjs.org](https://pagedjs.org&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1651750069401419&usg=AOvVaw2_NRdElRKIBaGy6p5S7SLs)). Paged.js is an open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser (or on the server) to create high quality PDF output from any HTML content. Using instance-specific templates, this allows Kotahi to export manuscripts and metadata as print-ready PDFs. Paged.js is written in JavaScript.
-[PubSweet](https://pubsweet.coko.foundation). PubSweet is Coko’s open source framework for building state-of-the-art publishing platforms. Kotahi uses this as a component library and parts of its framework. PubSweet is written in JavaScript.
-[xSweet](https://xSweet.org)
-[Wax](https://waxjs.net) allows marking up of documents in a way that can be easily translated into valid JATS. Wax and Wax-JATS are written in JavaScript.
-[Paged.js](https://pagedjs.org) to create high quality PDF output from any HTML content. Using instance-specific templates, this allows Kotahi to export manuscripts and metadata as print-ready PDFs. Paged.js is written in JavaScript.
In conjunction with Kotahi, integration work is also being done on another Coko project:
