The Winnower was a publishing platform and journal that offered traditional scholarly publishing tools (Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), permanent archival, Altmetrics, PDF creation, etc.)
to enable rigorous scholastic discussion of topics across all areas of intellectual inquiry, whether in the sciences, humanities, public policy, or otherwise.
It went live on May 27, 2014, with a primary focus of publishing scientific research, but expanded its scope to include a diverse set of topics spanning the humanities, social sciences, science policy, and professional commentaries, to name just a few.
[14] After submission, the paper was immediately made visible online, and was open for public, non-anonymous reviews by registered members of The Winnower community.
Articles could be revised indefinitely until the author chose to "freeze" a final version and purchase a digital object identifier.