The jurisdiction in which it makes the most sense to reform copyright law so that it supports, rather than deters, access to research and scholarship is the United States.

Do you work for a library, publisher, or department specializing in scholarly communications? Are you part of an organization or research team that supports scholarly publishing?

By now you’ve heard – PKP is heading to Barcelona in November for our Seventh International Scholarly Publishing Conference. Why should you join us? Maybe you use our software. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re a like-minded organization or one of our strategic partners.

There are many reasons why you should join us in Barcelona this November for PKP 2019, our Seventh International Scholarly Publishing Conference.

On July 25, 2019 we invited the PKP community-at-large to join us in a one hour virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM). If you weren’t able to attend, or are just curious about who we are and what we do, check out our AGM recording and, hot off the (virtual) press, our 2018 Annual Report.

Early registration is now open for PKP 2019, our Seventh International Scholarly Publishing Conference November 20-22, 2019 at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). We’re very excited for this year’s conference, which is shaping up to be an exciting week of events in beautiful Barcelona.

Mark your calendars! The PKP 2019 Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, July 25, 2019 . This free, online event is open to everyone. Meet our team, find out what we’ve been up to, and get a sneak peak at OJS coming attractions. Date: July 25, 2019 Time: 12pm-1pm PDT URL: https://zoom.us/j/795444902* Registration is not required.

During the first week of June this year, Canada’s Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology issued its Statutory Review of the Copyright Act Report, after an exhaustive and expensive Canada-wide polling of opinion. The result of a legislated five-year review of copyright, the report’s first recommendation is to strike this review mandate from the legislation.

We are pleased to announce that 4Science, part of the Itway Group, has joined PKP as a strategic partner. Though not a new friendship, we are thrilled to formalize this partnership. Increased collaboration and sharing will enable us to better serve OJS communities around the world. PKP met the 4Science team long before it was established in 2015. In fact, we’ve been working together for many years.

Internal statistics in OJS are crucial to improve editorial workflow management. These metrics (e.g., the number of submissions in the system, average time to review, acceptance rates, etc.) support internal evaluations, facilitate account reporting to funding agencies, and enable users to report on a journal’s readership and editorial performance.

Over the past few sprints, UI/UX (user interface and user experience) has become an increasingly important and popular topic. Our SFU Sprint in May 2019 was no different. At this event, a team was formed to look at UI/UX issues, specifically, the manuscript submission workflow in the yet-to-be-released OJS 3.2. To learn more, we chatted with PKP staffer and UI/UX expert, Israel Cefrin.