With the new year well underway (and we hope it has been a good one for everyone so far!), we present the latest issue of the PKP newsletter, with an overview of developments during the last quarter of 2013 and the beginning of 2014. In this issue you will find news about the release of OJS 2.4.3; updated OJS usage statistics; a brief update on the PKP 2013 conference; PKP research and presentations; and our sustainability program.

The PKP School is developing a new course on building library publishing programs, but instead of having one or two people create it, we’re opening it up for anyone to help crowdsource the curriculum. Please drop by the draft syllabus and add your thoughts: http://tinyurl.com/leskmap The post Crowdsourcing a Library Publishing Course appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

For the past two months, PKP’s technical architect and lead developer Alec Smecher and Takuto Kojima from the Fidus Writer team have worked on integrating Fidus Writer and OJS, and a prototype has just been developed. In an interview on Fidus Writer’s website, Alec and Takuto tell us what this means, how far they came and where this could go. You will find some excerpts below.

In the past, we’ve tracked basic OJS installations and titles, but we’re now expanding our understanding of how much content our journals are publishing. In order to provide a better sense of how OJS is being used for journal publishing, we have developed graphs and maps focused specifically on journals that publish at least 10 articles per year. Check out the latest numbers on the new OJS Usage page.

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.

OJS Documentation OMP Documentation OCS Documentation OHS Documentation The post PKP Documentation appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

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.