No licence fees, no lock-in
Kotahi is open source. Run it yourself, or have eLife Pathways run it for you — either way you can take the software and your content elsewhere whenever you want.
Kotahi
Open-source submission and peer review for scholar-led publishing. Configure the workflow you actually want, publish where you need to, and take your content with you.
Workflows you configure
Submission, reviewer and decision forms are all configurable without writing code. The workflow is a setting, not a development project.
Built for PRC and preprints
Publish-Review-Curate, preprint review, overlay journals, Diamond Open Access — the models traditional submission systems treat as edge cases.
Connected to the ecosystem
COAR Notify, DOI registration, automated preprint ingestion, and a CMS layer for the public-facing side.
Find your way around
Section titled “Find your way around”New to KotahiWhy it exists, what it does, and which review models it supports.
Using Kotahi day to dayThe Dashboard, the Manuscripts page, and the editorial Control page.
Configuring an instanceForms, users, task and email templates, and the full settings reference.
COAR NotifyEnable bidirectional notifications between repositories and your review workflow.
BATS CMSAdminister the public-facing website that presents your published content.
Designing your workflowMap your existing process before you configure software around it.