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The CFI Journal is a biannual open-access publication. With its editorial collective committed to inclusive, anti-racist, anti-sexist, decolonial scholarship and politics, the journal explores the history and present of capitalism, contestation, and ecological transformation in the global countryside.

About a year ago, Mindi Schneider and Marjolijn Dijkman from CFI  asked us to work on a redesign of the journal's layout. In addition to the design, we proposed to work on a publishing platform that would  allow the CFI team to write, encode, and publish both the web and the pdf version of the journal from a common online tool.

The platform was up for the release of the 7th issue of the journal, called Carbon Frontiers, on June. Together with Sophie Martin, we worked on encoding the past issues for the past two months. They are now accessible on the website.

The articles can be read in the context of their issue, from the first to the last, in their publication order. They also are accessible directly with a table of contents which allows to jump directly to a specific point in the issue. They can be downloaded speparately and each issue can also be downloaded entirely in pdf format (which is also the pdf uploaded on the Brown University repository).

The interface also contains a search pannel useful to browse the articles using filters that can be combined (aka faceted search).

From the CMS, which is a Processwire with a custom module, the CFI team can generate the pdfs for an issue with the same content used for the website.

The generated pdfs use a different layout from the web, adapted to print and academic databases.