If you represent a consortium of organizations, please indicate why these partnerships were formed and how they will best serve the execution of the project and the interests of the scientific community.
Public goods infrastructure is most effective with a distributed, coordinated model of contributorship to draw on multiple sources of expertise and to promote inclusivity. There are five key components of The Commons:

1. Preprints Repository: COS’s SHARE service already meets most of the requirements for the repository of preprints for aggregated indexing, search, and discovery.
2. Submission Service: COS’s OSF Preprints already meets most of the requirements for the submission service for preprints.
3. Conversion Tools: Manuscripts.app and Authorea have developed conversion libraries, renderers, and editors that can be extended to meet functionality requirements. Additional contributions by a community of experts (e.g., CoKo Foundation, Pandoc, CiteSeerx) will chart a meta-roadmap for an open suite of services.
4. Automated Screening Tools: Crossref offers services for automated screening for plagiarism that offer immediate value for a fee. COS and the community experts will advance open solutions.
5. Service Administration: COS’s community team already provides user and administrative support for the operation of the OSF. This team will add personnel dedicated to efficient service administration of The Commons.

# Technical capability (2000 words)

Explain why your organization or consortia of organizations are well-qualified to undertake the development and management of the CS. Please address the questions below: