The Amal Jyothi College of Engineering (AJCE) and PKP are hosting a free virtual OJS workshop for the South Indian open access publishing community this May.  The goal of the workshopping event is to demonstrate the use of PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) software to publish and manage content as a site administrator, journal manager, editor, peer reviewer, and author.

The community is invited to join this free Coalition Publica webinar on challenges, benefits, publishing options, how-to steps, and best practices for basic multilingual metadata use in PKP software. The Webinar is presented by Érudit and PKP, together as Coalition Publica. Why Multilingualism? The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) strives to increase access and reach of scholarly publishing.

The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) Board seeks applications for the Library Publishing Curriculum Editorial Board. Created in partnership with the Educopia Institute, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), NASIG, and BlueSky to BluePrint, as part of a project generously funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Library Publishing Curriculum is an ongoing program of the LPC.

Veuillez accéder à une version française de l’annonce originale de Coalition Publica ici / Please access a French version from Coalition Publica’s original announcement here.

We are pleased to announce the next PKP Sprint will be taking place at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, Denmark , on June 20 and 21, 2023 . The purpose of a PKP Sprint is to bring together the community to work on improving PKP software. There, small, self-organized teams work together to solve common software issues or make enhancements that benefit everyone.

PKP joins a new project that works to increase access to valuable research and sustainability for the future of open access books, which is set to receive more than £5.8 million in funding. Led by Lancaster University, the Open Book Futures (OBF) project will develop and support organisations, tools and practices that enable both academics and the wider public to make more and better use of books published on an Open Access basis.

Read in Portuguese The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) partners with the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC Brasil) and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to invite the academic community of scientific journals to participate in the PKP Event, to improve knowledge, best practices, and technological improvements for the use of PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS).

Jill Torigian is the President and sole owner of Multimed Inc., an international publishing and project development corporation, founded in 1980. With over 33 years of scholarly publishing experience, Jill provides executive leadership and business development for a diverse set of loyal clients, whose journals and associations have contributed to an invaluable exchange of scientific knowledge and research throughout the world.

The Canadian Student Journal Forum (SJF) is an annual event organized by university libraries, with a focus on bringing student journals together and sharing publishing best practices. The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) had the pleasure of being among supporters of the event in both 2022 and 2023. Check out the SJF 2023 ‘Roundup’ and learn how PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) facilitates student-led journals.

March 6th to 10th is Open Education Week! PKP is a Core Facility at Simon Fraser University (SFU), opening up access to knowledge. At the intersection of this work is scholarly publishing, open access, and open education. PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) plays a role at this intersection, as course journals are a type of open pedagogy involving students in the creation of open knowledge.

What’s on in scholarly publishing? Mark Huskisson, Publishing Development Specialist at the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), takes readers into an exploration of the recent increase in OJS usage around the world in a guest post for the Scholarly Kitchen, a blog established by the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Read the full English version here. Read the full Spanish version here.