The OJS Deutschland Consortium 2026 – 2028 is off to a strong start with 14 new members committing to collective investment in sustaining PKP open infrastructure.

Registration is officially open for the Canada Student Journal Forum (SJF) 2026, happening February 17 – 19. This national gathering brings together student journal teams, authors, faculty mentors, and academic leaders from across the country. Registration for this virtual event is free.

John Willinsky was named a Member of the Order of Canada on December 31st, 2025, for almost three decades of dedication to making knowledge public through his PKP work. In this post, we reflect on how the generous support of PKP’s contributors, reflecting the deeply collective nature of the project, made this work possible. In […] The post PKP Founder John Willinsky Appointed to the Order of Canada appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

PKP invites Open Monograph Press users and community members to join OMP Fest for a half-day on Wednesday March 25th, 2026, 9 AM PT, and shares a Call for Proposals. We invite you to join us in March for OMP Fest, a half-day event to celebrate the use of OMP in the PKP user community! […] The post Save the Date! PKP is hosting “OMP Fest” to celebrate our Community and Open Monograph Press appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

In this segment of Archipelago, explore the recap of events since September 2025, and the rest of the newsletter. Events in Latin America In September and October 2025, PKP participated in two events in Ecuador. First, PKP’s Publication Support Specialist Pedro López Casique participated in a hands-on workshop on the role of metadata in scholarly […] The post Featured Events Recap appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

Canada is positioned as a leader in diamond open access with a strong foundation, investment in open infrastructure, unique funding models, wide-spread adoption of Open Journal Systems (OJS), and a focus on what really matters to Canadian scholarly knowledge creators, mobilizers, and publishers. Canada has a longstanding, internationally recognized leadership role in scholarly communications.

For over 8 years, the Coalition Publica partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has been a force in consolidating support for Canada’s open access scholarly publishing communities.

How does documentation and multilingualism intersect with inclusive global publishing? Get an inside perspective in this interview with Emma Uhl, PKP Documentation and Multilingualism Specialist.

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.