PKP celebrates Open Education Week by sharing open monographs and textbooks published using its free, community-driven software, Open Monograph Press (OMP). UPDATE: This post was updated March 6th, 2025 for #OEWeek25. Open Education Week is an annual, global event dedicated to advocating for access to and reach of education.

PKP has Diamond in its DNA — in this blogpost PKP summarizes its article on “The Platform Developers in a Federated Model of Diamond Open Access” and expands on bibliodiversity and inclusion considerations. There is a palpable buzz in our world around the concept of Diamond Open Access (OA)—a model of OA where journals are free from access fees for readers and Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors.

This post was originally published on Coalition Publica’s website here. Save the date — you are invited to the Canadian Symposium of Scholarly Journals on June 19th, 2024, at McGill University.

PKP and the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) invite scholarly publishing communities to the PKP Minnesota Sprint, with an LPC pre-conference event, May 13 – 14, 2024. We are thrilled to announce that the Public Knowledge Project is partnering with the Library Publishing Coalition, aligning our events with the eagerly anticipated, in-person, Library Publishing Forum 2024 at the University of Minnesota.

You are invited to join PKP for a free online webinar on February 27, 2024 at 9 am PT to learn about, and to think more maximally about PIDs and metadata in your OJS publications! Event Description Persistent Identifiers, commonly referred to as PIDs, play a pivotal role in fostering trust within scholarly publications while concurrently enhancing publication discoverability and accessibility.

PKP announces the first 2024 Sprint and Pre-Conference event, happening Monday, May 13, 2024 and Tuesday, May 14, 2024. The Public Knowledge Project is thrilled to announce our inaugural Sprint of 2024, marking our first PKP Sprint in North America since 2019!

This post on PKP’s year in review and event recap is part of PKP’s inaugural newsletter issue, “Archipelago”. As a community-driven project, the Public Knowledge Project finds great value in participating in and hosting in-person and online events to get closer and share experiences with community members worldwide.

This post, an update to PKP’s Membership structure, is part of the inaugural issue of PKP’s Newsletter, “Archipelago”. The Public Knowledge Project’s most widely used software, Open Journal Systems (OJS), is the backbone of over 34,000 journals worldwide, amounting to over 8 million published articles. The OA Diamond Journals Study shows estimates of OJS being used by 60% of the sampled journals.

This post, celebrating 25 years and collaborating for the future, is part of the inaugural issue of PKP’s Newsletter, “Archipelago”. This last year, we proudly celebrated the Public Knowledge Project’s 25th Anniversary. We’re in good company, as a number of open infrastructures also commemorated significant milestones last year.

This post on ORCID and OJS in Indonesia is part of the inaugural issue of PKP’s Newsletter, “Archipelago”. Indonesia overwhelmingly accounts for the largest regional community of OJS users in the world (Beacon Data, 2022). In a 2022 publication authored by PKP Research Associates Saurabh Khanna and Jon Ball, along with PKP Co-Scientific Directors John Willinsky and Juan Pablo Alperin, the authors highlighted that

Welcome to “Archipelago”, a PKP Newsletter. This is the inaugural issue, featuring community and growth, what to expect in the newsletter, and a word on our chosen name. Community and growth  It’s been an incredible 25 years for the Public Knowledge Project, filled with astounding growth within our team and across our global user community. We’re truly humbled by the journey.