You can use this to easily publish your own post-publication peer reviews, commentaries, and whatever else you like. What do you think? Personally, I’m really pleased with it! We’ve also gone ahead and uploaded the Scribus template to Figshare. Here is the article on Figshare, and the direct download link: The formatted manuscript. With a little practice Scribus or similar tools can be used to quickly turn out a variety of high quality article types.

I’ve heard this elaborate process should cost somewhere in the tens of thousands of dollars per article, so I guess I owe Kate a few lunches! Seriously though, the entire copy-editing and formatting process only took about 3 or 4 hours total (most of which was just getting used to the Scribus interface), less than the time you would spend formatting and reformatting your article for a traditional publisher. You might notice we deliberately styled the manuscript around the format of one of those Big Sexy Journals (see if you can guess which one). We hope folks will iterate and optimize these templates for a variety of purposes, especially post-publication peer review, commentary, pre-registration, and more. Special thanks to collaborator Kate Mills, who used Scribus to create the initial layout. Apologies for the lengthy delay, as i’ve been in the middle of a move to the UK. As promised, today we are releasing a copy-edited PDF of my “Birth of a New School” essay, as well as a Scribus template that anyone can use to quickly create their own professional quality PDF manuscripts.

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