Tracking progress toward the future of academic publishing
Rebuilding the front-end to center on open review journals and archives, removing legacy features like "communities" and "collections."
Launch first Open Review Journal to test full publication workflow.
Deploy academic-led peer-reviewed journals using transparent open review and multimedia integration.
Enable open-access repository for preprints with optional public peer reviews.
Enable open-access repository for podcasts with optional public peer reviews.
Publications can now appear in several languages.
Design a PDF style for Future Science papers.
Develop experimental AI-managed journals capable of generating, reviewing, and publishing under supervision.
Redesign of all user-facing interfaces for clarity, speed, and coherence across platforms, improving typography, navigation flow, colour hierarchy, and layout consistency to meet modern UX standards and support multilingual displays.
Use AI to identify structure, apply semantic tags, and flag missing or inconsistent sections. Apply to upload 100 articles from the former EEP database to the current Future Science website.
Use AI to propose automated transcriptions of conferences published on Future Science.
A native text editor on the Future Science platform.
Integrate a chat so that users can chat with webmasters.
Automated process to turn HTML files of Future Science papers into journal-type PDFs.
Integrate automatic DOI registration for all articles, reviews, and datasets to ensure traceability through Zenodo API.
A process to help Future Science initiatives get indexed into major databases.
Once the interface and backend structure are stable, a limited beta will be launched.
Create researcher profiles linking publications, reviews, affiliations, and dynamic bibliographies.
Implement AI tools to summarize reviews, suggest reviewers, and check coherence and citation quality.
Final deployment of the platform to the global academic community, supported by onboarding materials, outreach campaigns, and institutional announcements, marking the transition from testing to sustained, long-term production use.