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.

This post on a new partnership with Sachsenkonsortium is part of the inaugural issue of PKP’s Newsletter, “Archipelago”. The Public Knowledge Project is excited to announce our recent Development Partnership with Sachsenkonsortium. Through a signed memorandum of understanding (MOU), we are working together to advance the functionality of open peer review within PKP software.

PKP invites the community to join its Software Development Update webinar on February 5th, 2024, at 8 AM PST. This event will be of interest to Strategic Partners, Development Partners, Financial Contributors, and Community Contributors, as well as the wider community interested in, or using, PKP’s free and open source software (FOSS) for independent scholarly publishing.

The highly anticipated Indonesia ORCiD OJS User Community meeting was held on December 13th (PST) / 14th (WIB), 2023. The recap and recording is now available. The Public Knowledge Project’s most widely used software, Open Journal Systems (OJS), is often used for open access publishing, and is interoperable with ORCID.

Student Journal Forum registration is now open for students interested in or involved in scholarly publishing. The event is free, happening February 20 – 22, 2024. Registration is now open for the Student Journal Forum 2024, February 20 – 22, 2024.

Among PKP’s events in 2023 was the PKP Sprint, hosted by one of our partners, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, in Hannover, Germany. Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support.

The sprint notes from the PKP Hannover Sprint, hosted by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in September 2023 are now available . Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) hosted six working groups at the PKP Hannover Sprint in September. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

The sprint notes from the PKP Hannover Sprint, hosted by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in September 2023 are now available . Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) hosted six working groups at the PKP Hannover Sprint in September. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

The sprint notes from the PKP Hannover Sprint, hosted by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in September 2023 are now available . Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) hosted six working groups at the PKP Hannover Sprint in September.

As 2023 marks the conclusion of PKP’s twenty-fifth year, it provides the opportunity for some brief reflections on the project’s beginnings and its evolution over the past quarter-century. From the early stages of seeking startup grants for the creation of open source software to the use of OJS today by over 30,000 journals around the world, the journey has been quite remarkable.

The sprint notes from the PKP Hannover Sprint, hosted by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in September 2023 are now available . Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) hosted six working groups at the PKP Hannover Sprint in September. This is a summary of one such group’s work.