Greetings from PKP! The Fifth PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, held Aug 11-14 in Vancouver, Canada, was a great success. We were thrilled to host numerous presentations covering a wide variety of topics, as well as participants attending from countries around the world, including Canada, the US, Nepal, UK, Sri Lanka, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, Denmark, Brazil, Belgium, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and the Bahamas.

Thanks to everyone who attended #PKP5 here in Vancouver last week. We only have the chance to gather a portion of our community once every two years, and as a developer it’s inspiring to see some of the things that are happening in our sphere and with our software. I’m also reminded of the huge impact that small teams can make. See the conference website for some of this — slides from the presentations should be showing up soon.

The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce the launch of the Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study.

The Simon Fraser University Library (http://www.lib.sfu.ca) is pleased to announce that it is among the 25 Canadian not-for-profit organizations working on the cutting-edge of Internet issues and services to receive funding from the .CA Community Investment Program.

The Public Knowledge Project and Islandora are pleased to announce a strategic relationship to advocate and support the use of open source technologies that support scholarly publishing and research. Both Islandora and PKP are successful open source projects that serve a very similar community of academics and researchers.

 PKP is seeking (initially) a half-time Software Developer to join our XML Project team. Duties will include maintaining the PKP XML web stack currently hosted at https://github.com/pkp/xmlps, adding new features and parsing libraries, actively participating in an international developer community, conferring with users to better understand system requirements and usability issues, investigating problem areas, and […]

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PKP Director Dr. Willinsky discusses the importance of open access in an unequal global division of scholarship, the epistemological and legal arguments for making research accessible, the intellectual foundations of the Public Knowledge Project (managed by the SFU Library) and its plans for the future in providing socially just, community-based, open source, open access options in scholarly publishing.

Registration is now open for the 2015 Public Knowledge Project conference, taking place August 11 – 14 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

For those of you in Canada: The OCUL Publishing-Hosting Community invites you to a free Open Journal Systems Training Workshop at McMaster University, May 13-14. Wed. May 13 – 9:30 am – 4:00 pm – Getting started with OJS: what’s under the hood? This session will focus on basic OJS journal functions including managing users, journal setup, customization, statistics and reports and plugins.

We are pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.4.6. This release builds on the 2.4.5 release to collect the numerous minor fixes and tweaks that have since been completed.

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve PKP’s technical infrastructure (such as moving to Git for version control and issue tracking), and in anticipation of the upcoming OJS 3.x line, we are pleased to announce our new support forum: http://forum.pkp.sfu.ca The new forum runs on the open source Discourse platform, used by a wide range of sites including Boing Boing and How-To Geek.