FAQs

What is this paper? It's the first paper describing the fourth series of compounds examined by the Open Source Malaria Consortium

Who are the authors? Anyone and everyone

If I can read all this online, how can you then publish it? Having a paper in the public domain before submission to a journal is no longer that unusual - think of the growth of the arXiv preprint server, for example.

Will you submit this paper to a preprint server? Probably

Which journal are you aiming for? Not yet decided

How can I contribute? The paper is here: http://tinyurl.com/OSM-S4-Paper1. If you edit, please do so in a way that makes it clear that there has been an edit, as described here.

All the files associated with the paper are also public domain, and are contained in the repo you're looking at - click on the "code" tab above. You should be able to download a file, modify it and then upload the modified version. Don't keep files on your local machine for long - upload everything you do.

Do I need to install the desktop version of Github to contribute? Only if you're going to be doing a lot of contributions. If you want to tweak the paper and modify a few files, you shouldn't need to.

Installing the GitHub desktop client Download the client from here https://desktop.github.com Once installed go to the GitHub page https://github.com/OpenSourceMalaria/OSMSeries4Paper1 Click on the green "Clone or Download" button and select "Open in Desktop"