The 2020 appeals court ruling in York University v. The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, declared York’s fair dealing guidelines, which attempted to set out the terms for fairly using articles and chapters in the university’s courses without paying royalty fees, to be other than fair to authors and publishers.

We’re celebrating World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2020) with exciting news from PKP’s free digital preservation service, the PKP Preservation Network (PN). Plus, Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University (SFU) Library’s Associate Dean of Libraries for Digital Strategy and PKP PN partner, sheds some light on our “dark archive” in a PKP exclusive interview.

PKP is pleased to announce the University of Alberta Library (UAL) has renewed their commitment as a major Development Partner.   PKP Development Partners represent the highest level of sustainer contribution, offering both significant in-kind and monetary support towards PKP’s operations.

Can’t find your Open Journal Systems (OJS) journal on Google Scholar? Check out the latest guide from PKP’s Documentation Interest Group (DIG) and learn how to ensure your articles are discoverable online. Google Scholar provides great exposure for journals everywhere.

Coalition Publica, a partnership between PKP and the Consortium Érudit, has received funding from Canada’s federal research-funding agency, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). For more information, read the full announcement on the Coalition Publica website. The post Coalition Publica Receives Support from SSHRC for the Development of Open Access appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

In these extraordinary times of the pandemic, unusual steps must be taken to protect the public interest. On March 25, 2020, the Government of Canada’s sweeping COVID-19 Emergency Response Act received royal assent.

In January of 2017, PKP Director John Willinsky proposed “subscribing to open access” as a concept for flipping journals to open access with the full and continuing support of their subscribing libraries. Later that year, the concept was initiated by Annual Reviews under the moniker “subscribe to open” (S20), with a full pilot of five journals launched in 2019.

Thank you to everyone who attended our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on July 24, 2020. A recording of this event is now available and includes both the presentation slides and audio. We want to hear from you! What do you think about our membership and development plans? How do we set priorities together? If you have questions or feedback about our presentation, please post a comment on the PKP Community Forum.

Is your journal free of charge to both readers and authors? Does it follow the “diamond model?” If yes, OPERAS needs your help!

We are pleased to present our 2019 annual report to the community. This year, we look back at our top stories from the 2019-2020 fiscal year while exploring what being open means to this project: open access, open source, open infrastructure. We also reflect on how our dedicated community has made, and keeps us, open.

I am working this year on developing a copyright amendment that is intended to do a much better job of supporting open access to research than the current law. This work is catching something of the tailwind filling the sails of open science, brought on by tragic, disruptive turns of the global pandemic.