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Fidus Writer was present at this year’s Force 2017 conference in Berlin with a presentation about how to make software for scholars sustainable and what needs to happen for academic people to adopt open source editors. Particularly, the move from Chilean startup funding in the period 2012 to funding for academic research through the German… read more |
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Fidus Writer 3.3 is here, and it’s packed with new features as well of tons of bug fixes. Some highlights: Images and citations are now stored in documents. When you collaborate with others on a document, you will have access to the images and citations stored in that document plus those stored in your own… read more |
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It has been half a year, and here we are with yet another release! As always, there are tons of fixes all over the place. You can try it out on our server at https://app.fiduswriter.org. Also, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, Germany has set up a Fidus Writer instance for production use… read more |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |