PLOS and Janeway collaborate to develop open-source publishing infrastructure

Note: PLOS issued the following press release October, 2026

Janeway is pleased to announce a new collaboration with PLOS to develop and extend the Janeway codebase for use in parts of PLOS’s article submission process. As part of the collaboration, PLOS is contributing engineering effort, code and ideas upstream, helping to develop shared open-source infrastructure for the benefit of both PLOS and the wider scholarly publishing community.

This is part of PLOS’s efforts to develop and contribute to open, shared infrastructure as part of its role in the open science ecosystem. It also reflects the core values on which Janeway is developed, based on the principles of open source and collaborative approaches to shared infrastructure. This means developing code and shared components that can be used and built upon by the wider Janeway community. By contributing to open tools and open shared infrastructure, PLOS aims to help strengthen the knowledge commons while reducing duplication and fragmentation across the system.

Andy Byers, Director of Publishing Technology commented: “We’re delighted to be working with PLOS. Janeway has always been built on the belief that shared, open infrastructure is better for everyone, and having an organisation of PLOS’s standing contribute engineering effort and ideas back into the codebase is a real endorsement of that approach. The work we do together will benefit not just PLOS but every press and journal that relies on Janeway.”

PLOS Chief Digital Officer, Tom Scott, said, ‘Open, community-developed infrastructure is essential to the future of scholarly publishing, and Janeway is an important part of that future. We’re excited to see what we can achieve together and to help Janeway continue to grow as an open, community-driven solution for scholarly publishing.”

About PLOS

PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice. We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all.

Building on a strong legacy of pioneering innovation, PLOS continues to be a catalyst in open science, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing, and publishing research outputs that enable everyone to learn from, reuse, and build upon scientific knowledge.

About Janeway

Janeway is an open-source digital publishing platform developed in 2017 by the Open Library of Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. Designed to support the full scholarly publishing workflow, from submission and peer review to production and publication, Janeway offers modern, standards-compliant features and integrates with services like Crossref and ORCID. Licensed under the AGPL, it is freely available for self-hosting or as a hosted service, and is used by many journals and institutions worldwide seeking a flexible, transparent, and sustainable publishing solution.

Janeway currently provides the publishing infrastructure for all OLH journals and is also used by a growing number of university presses and other scholarly publishing organisations, including California Digital Library, MIT, University of Michigan Press, UCL Press, New York University, TU Darmstadt, the Society for Clinical Data Management, Iowa State University, Dublin City University, Ghent University, and University of Westminster Press.