Developing effective methods for collecting, screening, and drawing attention to the best online scholarship, including scholarly blogs, digital projects, and other web genres that don’t fit into traditional articles or books, as well as conference papers, white papers, and reports

Encouraging the proliferation of open access scholarship by experimenting with new forms of publication, concentrating the attention of scholarly communities around high-quality, digital-first scholarship

Extending the WordPress platform with new plugins to make it simple for any organization or community of scholars to launch similar publications and giving guidance to institutions, scholarly societies, and academic publishers who wish to supplement their current journals with online outlets