Decentralized creation of academic documents using a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server

johanneswilm, May 24, 2017

Scholarly document creation continues to face various obstacles. Scholarly text production requires more complex word processors than other forms of texts because of the complex structures of citations, formulas and figures. The need for peer review, often single-blind or double-blind, creates needs for document management that other texts do not require. Additionally, the need for… read more

OJS/Fidus Writer integration at the Open Science Conference 2017

johanneswilm, March 22, 2017

We are excited that Fidus Writer and its integration with Open Journal Systems (OJS) review system (see video post and page) was presented at the Open Science Conference 2017 March 21-22 in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Philipp Mayr presented the work of the OSCOSS project during the parallel session 14:00-16:00 on March 21 and found several… read more

Fidus Writer – Open Journal Systems Integration

johanneswilm, March 20, 2017

For the past half year, Fakhri Momeni (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) and Afshin Sadeghi (University of Bonn) have been programming an integration feature for Fidus Writer and the Open Journals Systems (OJS). I am currently working on the last adjustments and we are confident we will be able to ship… read more

Citations for professionals: An interview with Emilano Heyns

johanneswilm, January 15, 2017

When we launched the first public version of Fidus Writer in May 2013, we received a flood of bug reports. One of those reporting bugs was Emiliano Heyns, at the time a philosophy student and open source hacker, with a special interest in bibliographies and citations. Two initial reports about lacking categories in bibliographies quickly… read more

Try out Fidus Writer 3.1!

johanneswilm, December 23, 2016

TL;DR: Tons of new features. Try out the upcoming Fidus Writer 3.1 release at https://app.fiduswriter.org Half a year ago we launched Fidus Writer 3.0 — the first version of Fidus Writer with support for all modern browsers. While we continue to modernize Fidus Writer, we have started to add new features again. There are literally… read more

Fidus Writer now exports to DOCX and ODT!

johanneswilm, October 4, 2016

Inspired by Mahdi Jaberzadeh Ansari’s work within OSCOSS on a converter program for Fidus Writer files to docx, we wanted to see if it was possible to bake an export system for Fidus Writer files to standard word processors right into Fidus Writer itself. It turned out that we could do it! The upcoming 3.1… read more

On the creation of a converter between Word and Fidus Writer

johanneswilm, August 8, 2016

Mahdi Jaberzadeh Ansari recently finished his work on a Master of Computer Science degree at the University of Bonn. As part of this degree, he has been working on an automated way to convert documents between Fidus Writer to and Microsoft Word. Jaberzadeh Ansari’s work is part of the ongoing Opening Scholarly Communication in Social Sciences… read more

Fidus Writer 3.0 launched!

johanneswilm, June 29, 2016

After a prolonged testing period, we are proud to announce the launch of Fidus Writer 3.0! With this release, I really wanted to make sure that stability was a top priority, so I did not include new features for the past few weeks. Instead I worked through tons of error reports from early testers. Download the… read more

Getting really close… Fidus Writer 3.0.0 rc1 released!

johanneswilm, June 10, 2016

After a week of heavy testing by all of you, we finally getting there. Bug reports have gone down extremely fast after the first few fixes, and a lot of this is about people trying to upload things that shouldn’t be uploaded, etc. . We should probably expect a final version 3.0.0 to be released… read more

Try it out! Fidus Writer 3.0.0 Beta 5 released

johanneswilm, June 5, 2016

With this release Fidus Writer is finally at a stage where you can try it, even without your own server! But be aware that we need to cover the cost of running the server (in addition to developing the software), so the server is only set up temporarily for testing. Donate now so that development can… read more