Editage, a leader in English-language editing and publication support services, announces a strategic partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). Through this partnership, Editage makes available discounted services editing and journal support to users of Open Journal Systems (OJS) created by PKP.
How many journals use OJS? This is one of the most frequent questions that PKP receives and the quickest answer is — a lot. Providing a more specific answer to that question is a challenge and for the past few years PKP has undertaken an annual exercise to count all of the journals currently using OJS as their publishing platform. The first challenge is to attempt to identify all of the OJS instances that are accessible on the Internet.
The look and feel of OJS 3.0 beta was completely overhauled in the final months before release. In this post, I’ll dive into a few of the principles which guided this work, explaining how we used visual hierarchy and consistency to improve the focus and clarity of the UI. Where we started When I joined the PKP team, I was dying to take a crack at the UI. Here’s what the OJS dashboard looked like at the time.
I was fortunate recently to attend a conference at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany called Digital Scholarship and Open Science in Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.
For the past year, PKP has been developing and testing an implementation of the open source Article-Level Metrics application called Lagotto (formerly ALM) from the Public Library of Science (PLOS). We invited a small number of journals from the OJS user community to act as the test group for this beta service as we determine the associated costs and support requirements to provide a fully functional and stable service for the thousands of OJS
If you missed attending the PKP 2015 conference, or just want to re-live your favourite moments, the videos are now available on the conference web site. We have also added the videos from the PKP Annual General Meeting, as well as the 2014 Annual Report. The post PKP 2015 – Videos Now Online appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.
Greetings from PKP! The Fifth PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, held Aug 11-14 in Vancouver, Canada, was a great success. We were thrilled to host numerous presentations covering a wide variety of topics, as well as participants attending from countries around the world, including Canada, the US, Nepal, UK, Sri Lanka, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, Denmark, Brazil, Belgium, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and the Bahamas.
Thanks to everyone who attended #PKP5 here in Vancouver last week. We only have the chance to gather a portion of our community once every two years, and as a developer it’s inspiring to see some of the things that are happening in our sphere and with our software. I’m also reminded of the huge impact that small teams can make. See the conference website for some of this — slides from the presentations should be showing up soon.
The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce the launch of the Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study.
The Simon Fraser University Library (http://www.lib.sfu.ca) is pleased to announce that it is among the 25 Canadian not-for-profit organizations working on the cutting-edge of Internet issues and services to receive funding from the .CA Community Investment Program.
The Public Knowledge Project and Islandora are pleased to announce a strategic relationship to advocate and support the use of open source technologies that support scholarly publishing and research. Both Islandora and PKP are successful open source projects that serve a very similar community of academics and researchers.