April 27, 2022 English message follows. De acuerdo con datos publicados en 2021, existen más de 25,000 revistas en el mundo utilizando OJS para publicar, de las cuales 4,714 se encuentran en Latinoamérica . Sin embargo, los datos muestran que aún existe un alto porcentaje de instalaciones que no utilizan una versión de OJS actualizada.
April 14, 2022 Google Analytics’ privacy practices are being challenged, especially in European Union member countries, where they contravene the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and have been declared illegal in some countries. For this reason, the PKP Technical Committee recommends not using Google Analytics so you do not end up tracking readers that are citizens of countries that enforce GDPR.
Contact: Nate Wright Public Knowledge Project SFU Library, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC natew@publicknowledgeproject.org Job Title: Senior UX Designer The Senior UX Designer is responsible for ensuring that PKP produces accessible, user-centered software that meets the needs of a diverse global community of scholarly publishers.
April 4, 2022 PKP is seeking new volunteer members to join the Documentation Interest Group , a community-led PKP working group that manages, creates, and improves documentation about PKP software and publishing best practices. This is a great opportunity for a community member to get more involved with PKP, network with PKP partners and other organizations, and advance documentation and support resources.
Bogotá welcomes its first Latin American PKP Sprint, which will be held on June 30 and July 1, 2022 hosted by the National University of Colombia, Bogotá. Register today, space is limited. The post Bogota Sprint 2022 appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.
March 16, 2022 Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has unleashed an outpouring of condemnation from scientists and research organizations worldwide.This week, Canada’s three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) , the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – announced a new Special Response
You’ve likely come across student journals within your field or institution. If not, you might in the near future as the number of student journals across academic institutions is rising steadily albeit slowly. There are many reasons why students at all academic levels choose to take part in existing student journals or start their own. Many student editors look to contribute to their field of study and gain transferable skills.
March 2, 2022 PKP has endorsed the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (OA) presented by Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) on March 2nd, 2022. We see this Action Plan as a positive step in supporting a sustainable, equitable, community-driven Diamond OA scholarly communication environment.
PKP Publishing Services is happy to welcome our first Open Preprint Systems (OPS) hosted client, Engineering Archive (engrXiv). Open Engineering Inc launched engrXiv in 2016 with the mission of openly disseminating engineering knowledge and is now migrating from OSF Preprints, the Centre for Open Science’s preprint service, to OPS, an open-source system developed by PKP in partnership
February 23, 2022 We encourage users to upgrade to the current release series OJS 3.3.x! More than 25,000 active journals around the world use Open Journal Systems (OJS). However, the PKP Technical Committee recently learned that many of those journals are relying on considerably older versions of OJS.
PKP has accepted a proposal from the Technical Committee to adopt a Long-Term Support (LTS) policy in order to help our community run and maintain PKP software. This decision will help our community of users schedule their upgrades by providing a fixed timeline for major software updates. We encourage anyone who hosts our software to […]
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