We are pleased to announce the details below for the upcoming PKP 2022 Annual General Meeting.

We have published a new contributor’s guide with everything a coder needs to know about our software development process. Read on to learn more about how the development team is changing and how you can make contributions to OJS, OMP and OPS. The contributor’s guide builds on changes we announced regarding how we collect and manage community feedback.

PKP is hosting the 2022 AGM and we value attendance from the community. Our software continues to improve because of the input of community members, users, software developers, editors, librarians and people in scholarly communications. Therefore, we would like to extend this invitation to you! Please join us on August 4th at 8 AM Pacific Time. This is a virtual meeting. Please stay tuned for the zoom link. We hope to see you there!

Our software improves with each new version because the changes that we make are informed by input from our community of scholars, publishers and librarians around the world. As this community grows, it is more important than ever for us to manage the feedback we receive.

In June 2022, The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies hosted a PKP software sprint in Helsinki, Finland. During this sprint, PKP community members gathered to form several groups, with each group tackling a specific task. This is a summary of one such group’s work. Group members Emma Uhl, Public Knowledge Project Erik Stattin, National Library of Sweden

In June 2022, The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies hosted a PKP software sprint in Helsinki, Finland. During this sprint, PKP community members gathered to form several groups, with each group tackling a specific task. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

In June 2022, the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies hosted a PKP Sprint in Helsinki, Finland. The Sprint involves PKP community members forming groups to tackle PKP software and support. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

Are you a librarian interested in reshaping scholarly communication? Then you may be interested in learning that the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is hiring a new Community Engagement and Outreach Librarian.  PKP is a research and development facility at  Simon Fraser University dedicated to improving how broadly research circulates.

As part of an annual tradition at this time of year, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) released its 2021 Annual Report on June 28th, 2022. The report, covering the fiscal year 2021 to March 31st, touches on all the year’s highlights in PKP’s ongoing efforts to expand public access to research and scholarship.  At the top of the highlight list this year is PKP’s signing on to Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Core Facilities Program.

May 30, 2021 The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is thrilled to welcome back Kevin Stranack to the PKP leadership team. Kevin has been appointed the inaugural Director of Operations for the Public Knowledge Project in its recent designation as Simon Fraser University’s newest Core Facility.

May 16, 2022 PKP wants to acknowledge and thank Sonya Betz, Head, Library Publishing and Digital Production Services, University of Alberta , for her role as the Chair of the Technical Committee. Sonya’s expertise in online user experience, digital repositories, scholarly publishing, and open access made her an invaluable member of the PKP technical committee.