You are invited to help revise the PKP School course on “Becoming an Editor” by joining a community card sorting sprint on November 12 at 9 AM Pacific Time. PKP is committed to developing resources to help our software users build their knowledge and enhance their scholarly publishing practices.

PKP shares what’s on for Open Access (OA) Week and beyond, highlights from Coalition Publica, how PKP software opens access to research and scholarship, opportunities to contribute to PKP communities, and OA news as well as resources. For the second year in a row, the theme of International OA Week is “Community over Commercialization” organized by SPARC in partnership with the OA Week Advisory Committee.

PKP is delighted to join the Open Book Collective (OBC) with a new supporter program for Open Monograph Press (OMP). Access the full announcement from OBC: Public Knowledge Project Joins the OBC. The Open Book Collective (OBC) is a registered charity that brings together open access book publishers, open publishing service providers, and knowledge institutions, […]

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Save the date! This announcement was originally written by The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences / À vos calendriers! Cette annonce a été rédigée à l’origine par la Fédération des sciences humaines. Canadian Symposium of Scholarly Journals From the emergence of digital publication to the rise of open access, scholarly communications have undergone deep and far-reaching change in the last 30 years.

The recording of the PKP webinar, “Peer Review in Review: What’s Coming in OJS” is now available. On September 25th, 2024, OJS users came together to learn from PKP’s Devika Goel, UX / UI Designer, and Erik Hanson, Systems Developer, about peer review in Open Journal Systems (OJS). This event was part of the Peer Review Week celebration, themed “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”.

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP), an SFU Core Facility, is pleased to announce its flagship software, Open Journal Systems (OJS), has been chosen to underpin the European Commission’s Open Research Europe (ORE), an open access publishing platform. The €890K award comes after the European Commission (EC) released a platform analysis highlighting the importance of technological autonomy in achieving ORE’s long-term

PKP sends a call to Journal Editors, Managers, and Publishers announcing trials of the Publication Facts Label for those using Open Journal Systems (OJS). At a time of concern over information quality, the Public Knowledge Project is introducing the Publication Facts Label (PFL) for journals using OJS (v 3.3 or higher). The PFL plugin can be readily installed in a journal, where it will gather and provide the

PKP invites user communities to test the usability of OJS for tasks and discussions as well as for multilingual form fields. Testing will run from September through November, 2024. Call for User Testing for Tasks and Discussions Join Our Usability Test for Tasks and Discussions Workflow! We know how challenging it can be to manage tasks and checklists to keep a submission moving forward.

New PKP School Course – Introduction to Getting Started in Library Publishing We’re excited to introduce the latest addition to PKP School’s offerings: the Introduction to Getting Started in Library Publishing . This new course provides an essential foundation to our series Getting Started in Library Publishing , adapted from the Library Publishing Curriculum produced by the Educopia Institute and the

Join in to learn how Open Journal Systems (OJS) is adapting to meet the changing landscape of peer review, including plans for managing open peer review. Event details Date and time: Wednesday September 25th, 9 – 9:45 AM Pacific Time Location: Online Registration: free and open to all via Eventbrite About the event Approaches to peer review are evolving, with the focus shifting towards greater transparency,

Join PKP’s webinar on September 16th, 2024, 8 AM Pacific Time, to explore the development of our scholarly publishing software. This webinar is open to all our community members. PKP invites those interested in the developments that underpin its scholarly publishing software to join in on 16-September for a webinar.