1 SCOPE – An XML Based Publishing Platform

One of the objectives of the Open Access movement is to establish institutional repositories at universities and other research institutions in order to support self-archiving. While a lot of software solutions have already been presented in recent years they lack a seamless integration of authoring tools, support for authors, and other technical publishing tools. This paper presents SCOPE (Servic e Core for open Publishing Environments) – an integrated publishing platform which facilita tes dist ributed electronic publishing on a central repository. This platform targets to extend the services provided by the edoc server of Humboldt Universit