In December 2013, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) reached its decision on proposals submitted as part of a call for proposals entitled “ Open Access Scholarly Monographs and Monographic Series “. Two out of 17 proposed projects were approved, and both of these use Open Monograph Press.

In October 2013, the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (SISP) launched Open SI, a new online production management and publishing system for digital materials built on the Open Monograph Press (OMP) platform. As an early adopter, SISP has contributed to the development of OMP and we are delighted to see Open SI launch.

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.4.3. This release builds on the 2.4.2 release to collect the numerous minor fixes and tweaks that have since been completed. In addition, it adds Macedonian and Polish language support.

PKP is supporting the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) in developing their open source in-house typesetter, meTypeset. As outlined in their technical roadmap, the ability to parse user-supplied input documents into open XML formats is a key principle of both reduced spending (and therefore a more viable model) and digital preservation.

The Public Knowledge Project, developer of publishing software used by thousands of scholarly journals continues to be among those leading innovation in scholarly publishing with its introduction of article level metrics (ALMs). The purpose of ALMs is to provide a more accurate means for measuring the impact of research at the article level rather than the journal level, as is tradition, said Juan Pablo Alperin of PKP.

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As you may know, the last couple months the PKP team has been hard at work designing our new website; and today we unveil the result! After many years, our old website had grown to contain so much information and content that it had become quite a maze. With this new website we present anything you may want to know about PKP in an easily accessible and visually pleasing form.

Presenting the August issue of the PKP newsletter , where you will find the latest news about the PKP 2013 conference program, a pre-announcement of our new website, and links to a new publication and OMP webinar. Only a couple more days until PKP 2013! We look forward to seeing many of you in Mexico City.

Are you considering hosting or managing a journal? Do you work with students who want to start one? Are you wondering about the time commitment, workload, and logistics of the process? This summer, the OCUL-PKP partnership group is hosting a webinar series entitled Librarian, Publisher. The series is designed for those at the early stages of developing their publishing support, or who simply wish to get a better understanding of the process.

The PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference in Mexico City is only one month away (August 19-21)! Register online now.

As Spring is finally starting to push its way through, the Public Knowledge Project team presents the second issue of the PKP newsletter, with an overview of developments during the first quarter of 2013. In this issue you will find news about the release of OMP 1.0; OJS 2.4.2; the PKP Scholarly Publishing 2013 conference; our sustainability program; and PKP research, presentations, and workshops.