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PubPub Help
Need support? Have feedback? Want to share tips and best practices with other communities?
Welcome to PubPub’s Help Community!
This site contains documentation to help users understand, use, and reference PubPub’s features, as well as to learn more about how we and others are using the platform. We’ve split documentation into three sections: guides, resources, and videos. Guides are written as walkthroughs intended to help users get started on the platform. Resources are generally tips, tricks, and/or case studies about other communities and user experiences we think you might also find helpful. Finally, our Videos walk you through how to execute certain tasks or effectively use certain functions on PubPub.
We’ve also organized activity based help topics below to help you more easily discover relevant content.
Create, Collaborate, Publish
Some basic notes on how PubPub works and why
Reference for editing and formatting your Pubs.
Pub Settings allow users to configure a Pub.
PubPub uses Pandoc to convert from LaTeX to HTML, and KaTeX to render LaTeX math blocks in browsers. Both Pandoc and KaTeX have limitations that can lead to issues with imported LaTeX. This Pub covers common issues and how they can be resolved.
Create, layout, and set options for pages.
Community Management
With PubPub, anyone can publish and distribute meaningful, impactful reviews with appropriate metadata that can be picked up by aggregators in about an hour — at no cost and with no technical expertise required.
Tips for getting started. Applicable to books, journals, blogs, and more.
Create, layout, and set options for pages.
Anyone who becomes a KF member, at any level, can give their community a custom domain.
Some PubPub users may find this resource helpful when establishing working and publishing agreements with their authors.
Ideas
An evolving list of communities on PubPub accross genres and use cases
As presented at the 2021 Library Publishing Forum
PubPub allowed innovation in how citizens are integrated into strategic planning processes and set a precedent for future exercises at the national and international levels.
Presented during the Open Publishing Fest, this resource focuses on the thinking behind the development of PubPub and showcases the platform's new dashboard.
Across the country and around the world, instructors are preparing to move their classrooms online, sometimes with almost no notice. This is an area for sharing resources on how to do so.
Presented during the Open Publishing Fest, this document walks through how the KFG team uses PubPub internally in the event that the tool might solve content creation, organization, and dissemination problems for others teams or individuals.
This document briefly describes the most common forms of analytics tools in use in both traditional digital publishing and academic publishing, with an emphasis on what they are designed to measure and what goals they are designed to serve.
A testimonial by Professor Marianne Raab on her experience assigning and teaching with Frankenbook on PubPub
