PKP Releases OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.5.0

PKP Software Development Update: Join us February 18, 2025

Future Proof your Scholarly Record — Invitation to PKP Preservation Network Webinar

We Want Your Feedback! New PKP + SFU Open Publishing Courses Coming Soon

Relawan Jurnal Indonesia to Host OJS Upgrading Workshop (OJS 2 to OJS 3)

Registration is open for 2025 Canada Student Journal Forum

PKP Peer Review Week webinar recording now available

PKP Goes to Indonesia for OJS Workshops and Crossref Event

JATS XML comes up a lot in the scholarly publishing world when it comes to accessibility, preservation, information exchange, and more.

The importance of JATS XML in scholarly publishing: Interview with Alec Smecher

Join us for this workshop where PKP will highlight existing and planned accessibility improvements in Open Journal Systems (OJS).
 

Date and time: Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 10 AM – 11 AM MDT Online and free Event Description Accessible publishing means creating content that is free of barriers for the broadest audience possible, regardless of their ability or disability.

ACCESSIBILITY IN OJS SOFTWARE AND PUBLICATIONS

PKP showcases Canada Student Journal Forum participants and recaps the February 20 – 22 2024 event.
 

Student publishing, libraries, infrastructure, and community are at the heart of a unique and vibrant scholarly publishing ecosystem. This year marked the 9th annual Canada Student Journal Forum, bringing together students and library experts across Canada.

A Canada Student Journal Forum 2024 Round-Up

You are invited to register for the online Coalition Publica Panel, “All together now: Toward partnerships for Open Access”, happening April 23rd, 2024.

Registration is open for Coalition Publica Panel on Partnerships for Open Access

PKP celebrates Open Education Week by sharing open monographs and textbooks published using its free, community-driven software, Open Monograph Press (OMP).
 


 
 UPDATE: This post was updated March 6th, 2025 for #OEWeek25.
 

Open Education Week is an annual, global event dedicated to advocating for access to and reach of education.

Open Monograph Press (OMP) for Open Education

The sprint notes from the PKP Hannover Sprint, hosted by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in September 2023 are now available

. Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) hosted six working groups at the PKP Hannover Sprint in September.

PKP HANNOVER 2023 SPRINT NOTES RELEASED: XML – Métopes CRAFT/OA

As 2023 marks the conclusion of PKP’s twenty-fifth year, it provides the opportunity for some brief reflections on the project’s beginnings and its evolution over the past quarter-century. From the early stages of seeking startup grants for the creation of open source software to the use of OJS today by over 30,000 journals around the world, the journey has been quite remarkable.

PKP’s 25th Anniversary – Year in Review

The sprint notes from the PKP Hannover Sprint, hosted by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in September 2023 are now available

. Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) hosted six working groups at the PKP Hannover Sprint in September. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

PKP Hannover 2023 Sprint Notes released: Easy containers for OxS

Originally published at Stanford, CA: November 16, 2023 (links added): Stanford University Press (SUP) is delighted to announce a new collaboration with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) aimed at expanding sustainable Open Access (OA) models of journal publishing.

Stanford University Press and Public Knowledge Project to Collaborate on Open Access Journal Publishing Program

PKP AGM Recap and Recording now Available

PKP Annual Report 2024: A Year of Growth and Collaboration

PKP AGM 2025: Registration is open

What’s new in Open Journal Systems (OJS) 3.5 Resources

PKP thanks Marc Bria for his role as Technical Committee Chair

PKP to join the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access

All you need to know about adopting ORCID and OJS: A webinar for journal publishers in Indonesia

Stanford University Press + PKP Launch New Journal

Register for PKP Oslo Sprint 2025

PKP events in 2024

PKP OJS Workshops make Waves in Indonesia: a Recap

Advancing Open Publishing for Open Research Europe Webinar Outputs Available

Exploring the Business Models and Editorial Practices of Journals using OJS: A New Research Initiative

Turin 2024 Sprint: Round-up Summary

PKP Advancing Open Publishing Infrastructure for Open Research Europe

PKP Software Development Update: Join us December 16th, 2024

PKP Turin 2024 Sprint notes:&nbsp;OMP

Canada Student Journal Forum Call for Proposals

Enhancing Journal Integrity with the Publication Facts Label for OJS

The Public Knowledge Project is calling for the community to support its mission of serving the quality, reach, and access of non-commercial scholarly publishing by joining the Financial Contributor Pathway.
 

As a free and open source (FOSS) project, our membership, through their participation in our committees, interest groups, and other venues including the Financial Contributor Pathway, serves as a vital mechanism

Call for Members: Financial Contributor Pathway

The sixth set of sprint notes is now available from the PKP Copenhagen Sprint, hosted by the Royal Danish Library in June 2023
 

. Sprints involve PKP community members coming together in diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Royal Danish Library hosted eight working groups at the PKP Copenhagen Sprint last June. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

PKP Copenhagen 2023 Sprint Notes released: User invitation Process

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and DataCite are pleased to announce in this jointly published release that PKP is now a DataCite Registered Service Provider.

PKP is now a DataCite Registered Service Provider

PKP Celebrates Open Access Week

On this Software Freedom Day and during its 25th anniversary, PKP takes a pause to celebrate its FOSS software and community.
 

This September 16th, 2023, is Software Freedom Day, an annual world-wide celebration coordinated by the Digital Freedom Foundation to raise awareness of what it means to use free software and to encourage its use.

PKP Celebrates Software Freedom Day and 25 years of FOSS

The fourth set of sprint notes is now available from the PKP Copenhagen Sprint, hosted by the Royal Danish Library in June 2023
 

. Sprints involve PKP community members coming together in diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Royal Danish Library hosted eight working groups at the PKP Copenhagen Sprint last June. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

PKP Copenhagen 2023 Sprint Notes released: Setting publication dates for old published content

PKP is to hold a development news webinar, open to the public, on Monday August 21st, at 9 AM PDT. The joining information is in this post.
 

The first PKP Development News Webinar was held on December 12th, 2022.

You are invited to PKP’s Development News Webinar

Ukrainian to follow. This post was adapted from the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine website.

On July 25 of this year, the webinar

 “Open Journal Systems (OJS) – a free and open software package for the publication of scientific research”

was held, dedicated to the platform for hosting scientific journals, often used in open access.

Materials released from THE STATE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL LIBRARY OF UKRAINE AND PKP OJS Webinar

English

On June 26th and 27th 2023, the Instituto Biológico de São Paulo hosted the PKP Brasil 2023 event, organized by the Public Knowledge Project, the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC Brasil), and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO).

PKP Brasil 2023 event round-up

PKP held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the 2022 fiscal year on August 4th, 2023. The AGM recording is now available.

PKP AGM recording and recap now available

PKP invites you to become a Community Contributor through our pathway! At PKP, we rely on the support of a diverse and enthusiastic community of contributors to strengthen and expand our projects. Our mission is to increase scholarly publishing access, quality, and diversity.

PKP’s Community Contributor Pathway

Are you passionate about open-source software, scholarly publishing, and increasing access to knowledge? If so, we invite you to join the PKP community. You can play an essential role in shaping the future of open access and scholarly publishing while enjoying membership benefits tailored to your needs. PKP relies on active support and contributions from our diverse community to maintain and grow our open-source projects.

Join PKP: Strengthening Open Access through Membership

PKP is hosting its 2023 AGM and invites the community to save the date.
 

The organization, along with its research and development, continues to grow because of the input and support of a great many contributors. This meeting will provide an update on PKP activities over the 2022 fiscal year. You are invited!

PKP Annual General Meeting – Save the Date

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 This news announcement was originally posted on Coalition Publica’s website.


 
 Coalition Publica is pleased to announce that it is adopting the Long-Term Support (LTS) version of Open Journal Systems (OJS) as the minimum required version for participating journals and their hosting providers.
 

In February 2022, the Public

Coalition Publica Adopts Long-Term Support Version of Open Journal Systems

Read this post in Ukrainian on the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine website.

The State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine and PKP to co-host OJS webinar

This release was originally published on TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology’s Events page.

Join the Public Knowledge Project’s Hannover 2023 Sprint, hosted by TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology on September 11-13, 2023 in Hannover, Germany.

Register for PKP Software Sprint Hannover 2023

PKP partner TIB in Germany, is asking academic libraries to collectively fund seven open access journals from quantum physics, computer science, and mathematics in order to help these journals adhere to high publishing standards and to publish without author fees. PKP supports this approach and encourages those interested to answer the call for libraries to participate in the KOALA funding round by contacting TIB.

Call for libraries to participate in KOALA funding round

PKP and Érudit, together as Coalition Publica, presented an open webinar focusing on the challenges, benefits, publishing options, how-to steps, and best practices for basic multilingual metadata use in PKP software. This webinar was offered both in English and French and based on PKP’s documentation with the objective of supporting multilingual practices in international and Canadian journals.

MULTILINGUALISM WEBINAR: RECORDINGS AVAILABLE

About 5 years ago, PKP welcomed Vitaliy Bezsheiko to the team as a Software Developer working mostly on the editorial and JATS XML workflow as well as on themes development. Now, in his new role as Software Developer Workflow Lead, Vitaliy takes the time to reflect on his past role, experiences, milestones, the meaning of his work, and what the future may hold.

PKP Celebrates Vitaliy Bezsheiko, Software Developer Workflow Lead

Come join our global, virtual team and help transform scholarly publishing! DESCRIPTION   The Budget Coordinator, PKP is responsible for providing financial, administrative, and operational support for the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The position is responsible for preparing and monitoring the annual budget process and long-term financial plan; project budgets, financial reports, projections, and year-end processing.

PKP Job Posting: Budget Coordinator (Term)

The next PKP Sprint will be taking place at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, Denmark

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on

 June 20 and 21, 2023

. Registration is now open on the event’s website, where you can learn more about the schedule and proposed topics for

 #pkpcpn2023

. The purpose of a PKP Sprint is to bring together the community to work on improving PKP software.

PKP SPRINT COPENHAGEN 2023: REGISTRATION OPEN!

In light of Elsevier’s recent editorial resignations and Wiley’s editorial firing, the Public Knowledge Project wishes to reiterate its twenty-five-year commitment to enabling the independence and integrity of scholarly editors by providing them with high quality free and open source publishing platforms for journals, books and preprints. That is to say, there is an alternative.

The Public Knowledge Project’s Declaration of Scholarly Independence

This DOAJ Indexing for Open Journal Systems (OJS) webinar outlines the steps that OJS-published journals can take to comply with DOAJ application requirements, for example, how to represent and link to information in OJS that is relevant for DOAJ inclusion and indexing.

DOAJ Indexing for OJS Journals Webinar

PKP shares SciELO’s excitement as these two strategic partners both celebrate 25th anniversaries in 2023.  PKP and SciELO share a passion for open infrastructure development that can help make research and scholarship a global public good.

SciELO to Celebrate 25 Years with Series of Events

Join us on our mission to increase the quality and reach of scholarly publishing as PKP’s Associate Director of Publishing Services.

PKP is hiring an Associate Director of Publishing Services

The community is invited to join this free Coalition Publica webinar on challenges, benefits, publishing options, how-to steps, and best practices for basic multilingual metadata use in PKP software. The Webinar is presented by Érudit and PKP, together as Coalition Publica.

 Why Multilingualism?

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) strives to increase access and reach of scholarly publishing.

Coalition Publica Webinar: Informed Use of Multilingualism in PKP Software

Discover the winning projects of the 2024 Coalition Publica Student Editor Grants!
 


 
 This post was originally published on the Coalition Publica website.

Coalition Publica: Winning projects of the 2024 Student Editor Grants

The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) Board seeks applications for the Library Publishing Curriculum Editorial Board. Created in partnership with the Educopia Institute, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), NASIG, and BlueSky to BluePrint, as part of a project generously funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Library Publishing Curriculum is an ongoing program of the LPC.

Call for Applications: Library Publishing Curriculum Editorial Board Members and Editor-in-Chief

The sixth and final sprint summary from the PKP Minnesota Sprint, hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries in May 2024, is now available.
 

Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The University of Minnesota Libraries hosted six working groups at the PKP Minnesota Sprint in May. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

PKP Minnesota Sprint Summary #6 – Discussion Workflow

The Amal Jyothi College of Engineering (AJCE) and PKP are hosting a free virtual OJS workshop for the South Indian open access publishing community this May.  The goal of the workshopping event is to demonstrate the use of PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) software to publish and manage content as a site administrator, journal manager, editor, peer reviewer, and author.

Amal Jyothi College of Engineering and PKP to host OJS workshop

Read in Portuguese  The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) partners with the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC Brasil) and the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to invite the academic community of scientific journals to participate in the PKP Event, to improve knowledge, best practices, and technological improvements for the use of PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS).

PKP, ABEC, and SciELO to host event in Brazil

Join us for this Coalition Publica panel discussion on ORCID developments in institutional contexts.
 


 Read the French version of this post on Coalition Publica’s website.

Date and time: Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 1 PM – 2 PM ET Online and free Event description Coalition Publica invites you to hear from our panelists who will share ORCID developments in their institutional contexts, including

About blooming time! Implementing ORCID

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is seeking a full-time contractor to oversee the quality assurance of its open source software applications
 

. Quality Assurance Analyst

 Position Type:

Full-time contractor (35 hours/week)

 Rate:

$40-45 CAD/hour

 Duration

: 2 years with possibility of extension The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is seeking a full-time contractor to

Call for Contractor: Quality Assurance Analyst

Just before the recent launch of PKP’s new website and 25th anniversary campaign, the team celebrated the arrival of Urooj Nizami, who is responsible for forging and strengthening relationships as well as facilitating community engagement. Urooj has already made a major impact to the website, which now includes a Community Page outlining the global nature of the community, PKP’s membership model, and strategic partnerships.

PKP Welcomes Urooj Nizami as Community Engagement and Outreach Librarian

If you are interested in Open Journal Systems (OJS), scholarly publishing, and social justice, you will definitely want to check out this latest preprint article, “Recalibrating the Scope of Scholarly Publishing: A Modest Step in a Vast Decolonization Process”.

New preprint analyzing the 25,000+ journals that use PKP’s OJS!

The Irish Research eLibrary (IREL), the ORCiD Consortium Lead Organization, is hosting a webinar on ORCiD and OJS covering the following topics:  • The benefits of ORCiD • The ORCiD OJS functionality • Practical steps to set up the ORCiD OJS integration • A demonstration of how the University of Milan has implemented the ORCiD OJS integration  The panelists are Dulip Withanage who is with the German National Library of Science and Technology

ORCID and OJS webinar hosted by IReL

PKP is happy to announce an open webinar on

 Plan S compliance in Open Journal Systems (OJS)

. As cOAlition S stipulates, for its funded research, all peer-reviewed scholarly articles must be published in venues that meet the Plan S “Requirements for Publication Venues”. The webinar will go over these requirements and how they can be met using OJS.

Open webinar: Plan S compliance in Open Journal Systems (OJS)

It has been a long time since we last reported on the activities of PKP’s Documentation Interest Group (DIG), and we’re very excited to let you know about some of the things we’ve worked on, new and old!

Documentation Interest Group Report Released

The Public Knowledge Project’s (PKP) 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held Friday, June 18, 2020 from 9:00AM-10:00AM PDT. This is a free, online event open to everyone. This has been a year of tremendous change. Join the PKP team as we reflect on the past year and what it means for PKP’s present and future.

You are invited! PKP 2021 AGM

Bori is a unique Brazilian agency that monitors scientific papers about to be published in scholarly journals and shares them with journalists. Connecting the media to peer-reviewed science helps to increase sharing, visibility, public knowledge, and impact over traditional distribution methods.

Bori’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) Plugin

PKP Welcomes White House Rule on Immediate Open Access.   On August 25th 2022, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy terminated a major concession to publishers on the road to open access. The OSTP memo indicates that by December 31st, 2025, publishers will have to provide immediate public access to research sponsored by U.S. federal agencies, from Agricultural Research to Veterans Affairs.

Embargo No More!

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.

Helsinki Sprint 2022 Notes Released: Contributor Roles

The Public Knowledge Project is honoured to announce that the leading international scholarly publishing platform SciELO has become PKP’s most recent Development Partner. The initial collaboration between the two organizations dates back to 2007. PKP and SciELO have both played vital roles in  supporting the growth and spread of open access publishing.

PKP and SciELO Announce Renewed Partnership

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.

Looking for Librarians Engaging in Change

PKP’s software is widely used around the world, but it is only now that we feel confident in stating that Open Journal Systems (OJS) is supporting over 25,000 active journals, collectively publishing up to a million articles per year.

Location of known journals using PKP’s Open Journal Systems

PKP has developed the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to digitally preserve OJS journals. The PKP PN ensures that journals that are not part of any other digital preservation service (such as CLOCKSS or Portico) can be preserved for long-term access. Preserved content in the PKP PN is only made available to users after a trigger event, at which time the content will be made accessible to the reading public.

World Digital Preservation Day 2022: Using PKP PN to keep journals’ data for all, for good, forever

If you missed out on the updates we have been putting out about the PKP Helsinki Sprint, or if you are looking for a less tech-heavy interpretation, here is a summary of all the amazing work that happened from June 15-16, under the midnight sun. Read on to learn more! The purpose of a PKP Sprint is to bring together the open access and open source community to work on improving PKP software.

Helsinki 2022 Sprint: Round-up Summary

Open webinar: Plan S compliance in Open Journal Systems (OJS)￼

Should copyright be on the open access agenda? John Willinsky says yes as he embarks on a world tour to convince stakeholders that it is time for reform.

Editors or those with multiple roles in a journal use the submissions lists to identify which submissions need action, which submissions are waiting for reviewers or authors, when they need to nudge other editors to take actions, or when expected tasks are overdue. Sometimes these lists get long and it becomes difficult for editors to filter the submissions that need action.

OJS community input needed for submissions list filter design

English message follows Spanish En junio de 2022, la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas organizaron el primer PKP Sprint Latinoamericano en Bogotá, Colombia. Miembros de la comunidad de PKP se reunieron en grupos de trabajo, cada uno con una tarea específica. Este es el [&#8230;]
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 Spanish
 

En junio de 2022, la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas organizaron el primer PKP Sprint Latinoamericano en Bogotá, Colombia. Miembros de la comunidad de PKP se reunieron en grupos de trabajo, cada uno con una tarea específica. Este es el resumen del trabajo realizado por uno de los grupos.

Bogotá 2022 Sprint Notes Released: Ajustes al flujo de revisión

PKP is excited to celebrate International Open Access Week, a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. We’re honouring this year’s theme—

 Open For Climate Justice

—by highlighting examples of open scholarship published on our open source software platforms.

Celebrating Open Access Week: Open for Climate Justice

Spanish

En junio de 2022, la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas organizaron el primer PKP Sprint Latinoamericano en Bogotá, Colombia. Miembros de la comunidad de PKP se reunieron en grupos de trabajo, cada uno con una tarea específica. Este es el resumen del trabajo realizado por uno de los grupos.

Bogotá 2022 Sprint Notes Released: Plugin Inclusión de roles de autores según Credit Casrai (con compatibilidad con OJS 3.3)

English message follows

 Spanish

En junio de 2022, la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas organizaron el primer PKP Sprint Latinoamericano en Bogotá, Colombia. Miembros de la comunidad de PKP se reunieron en grupos de trabajo, cada uno con una tarea específica. Este es el resumen del trabajo realizado por uno de los grupos.

Bogotá 2022 Sprint Notes Released: Utilizar XML para  creación y visualización de diferentes formatos (alternativa a Lens plugin)

Earlier this month PKP welcomed Devika Goel to the team as a UX/UI designer. Described as a ‘powerhouse’ by some of her colleagues, she is already well on her way to collecting and analyzing data that will help her implement more ‘community-centric design’ in her work. Devika has lots to share about her experiences, her viewpoints on “current social, political and economic order”, and the reasons why open source matters to her.

PKP Welcomes UX/UI Designer Devika Goel to the Team

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.

Employment Opportunity: Senior UX Designer

English message follows  Spanish  El pasado 30 de Junio y 1° de Julio, se llevó a cabo el primer PKP Sprint Latinoamericano, alojado por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.   Por primera vez, el PKP Sprint se llevó a cabo completamente en español, recibiendo a 53 participantes provenientes de diez países, en su mayoría, de América Latina.

Bogotá Sprint 2022: Resumen General | Bogotá Sprint 2022: Round-up Summary

Bogotá 2022 Sprint Notes Released: Traducción y mejoras de Documentación

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP), creators of Open Journal Systems (OJS) and other software, is not affiliated in any way with the US business identified as openjournalsystems (dot) com.  The post With Regard to openjournalsystems (dot) com appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

With Regard to openjournalsystems (dot) com

Our latest release package, 3.3, has arrived! Check out what’s new in Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Monograph Press (OMP), and Open Preprint Systems (OPS). Downloads are now available.

OJS/OMP/OPS 3.3 Released

PKP Publishing Services (PKP|PS) 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 with SciELO, for managing and posting

PKP Publishing Services Welcomes OPS Hosted Client: Engineering Archive

While many of us would rather not look back at 2020, it hasn’t been

 all

bad. Check out the great work our staff and global community accomplished. Some of our plans (like in-person sprints) were paused in 2020, but that didn’t stop our software users, contributors, and staff from working together online. In no particular order, here are 20 links representing 2020, including headlines, new documentation, and other updates.

PKP Year in Review: 20 in 20

Bogotá 2022 Sprint Notes Released: Evaluar herramientas y funciones para implementación en OMP

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.

Public Knowledge Project

Making the PKP Docs for OJS available in German: Report from the 1st Translation Sprint