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.

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.