In a global scholarly environment still searching for grounded, practical approaches to decolonizing knowledge, the Public Knowledge Project offers a meaningful contribution, due in no small part to our sustained investment in multilingualism, led with care and expertise by Emma Uhl.
What can students learn from Generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT? What roles can chatbots play in collaborative engineering? Tutor? Facilitator? Pair programmer? Task master? Or something else?
Recent accessibility efforts in scholarly publishing are driven in part by acts such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and new Title II regulations requiring digital accessibility, with key compliance deadlines approaching in 2026. PKP shares the work it is doing to ensure accessibility in its publishing platforms.
Strengthening multilingual publishing, metadata integrity, and integrating invitation-based roles and reviewers.
On October 15th, 2025, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB, the German National Library of Science and Technology) announced the PKP Open Journal Systems (OJS) Deutschland Consortium 2026 – 2028 on the TIB Blog. Diesen Beitrag auf Deutsch lesen. At PKP, part of our mission has always been to support sustainable, community-driven open scholarly infrastructure.
People and Nature Reconciliation (PanNature) is a Vietnamese non-profit organization founded in 2006, dedicated to protecting biodiversity and promoting sustainable development. PanNature works to harmonize the relationship between people and nature through policy advocacy, field-based conservation, and community partnerships, aiming to improve environmental governance and ensure responsible use of natural resources.
Appalachian History Series On the edge of downtown Harlan, just off U.S. 421, stands a small brick Catholic church that most travelers never notice. Holy Trinity Catholic Church is easy to miss in a county better known for coal camps, labor wars, and union ballads than for Roman collars and rosaries.
Appalachian History A hilltop church in a coal town Climb the long concrete stairway above the old company town of Pocahontas, Virginia, and you reach a modest white frame church with a red metal roof and a square tower crowned by a cross. Inside, the little sanctuary opens like a storybook. Ten life sized oil murals ring the walls and ceiling, with the Last Supper spreading across the apse behind a carved white high altar.
Appalachian Figures For most of his life, Harry Monroe Caudill lived within sight of Pine Mountain and within walking distance of the Letcher County courthouse. A country lawyer, state representative, and local historian, he also became one of the most widely read interpreters of Appalachian crisis in the twentieth century.
Appalachian Figures On a winter night at the end of 1968, fire swallowed the McLain family’s house above Troublesome Creek in Hindman, Kentucky. The seven family members escaped, and so did the instruments that had already begun to stitch their lives together in song.
Appalachian Figures When people in Letcher County rattle off the local names that somehow ended up on the national stage, Emery L. Frazier sits in that small company. A Lawrenceburg native who made his career as a young lawyer and mayor in Whitesburg, he eventually became the twentieth Secretary of the United States Senate in 1966. For Appalachia, his story is not only about climbing the ladder in Washington.