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.

Presenting the August issue of the PKP newsletter , where you will find the latest news about the PKP 2013 conference program, a pre-announcement of our new website, and links to a new publication and OMP webinar. Only a couple more days until PKP 2013! We look forward to seeing many of you in Mexico City.

Are you considering hosting or managing a journal? Do you work with students who want to start one? Are you wondering about the time commitment, workload, and logistics of the process? This summer, the OCUL-PKP partnership group is hosting a webinar series entitled Librarian, Publisher. The series is designed for those at the early stages of developing their publishing support, or who simply wish to get a better understanding of the process.

The PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference in Mexico City is only one month away (August 19-21)! Register online now.

As Spring is finally starting to push its way through, the Public Knowledge Project team presents the second issue of the PKP newsletter, with an overview of developments during the first quarter of 2013. In this issue you will find news about the release of OMP 1.0; OJS 2.4.2; the PKP Scholarly Publishing 2013 conference; our sustainability program; and PKP research, presentations, and workshops.

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are pleased to announce the first confirmed speakers for the Fourth PKP International Scholarly Publishing Conference, which will be held from August 19-21, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico.

We would like to take a moment to introduce you to the new PKP Newsletter , which you will find here: PKP Newsletter January 2013 One of our resolutions for 2013 is to keep our partners, sponsors, and the whole PKP community up to date on not only software developments, but also on innovative research projects, planned presentations and workshops, upcoming project developments, and our sustainability program, and other

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are pleased to announce the Fourth International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, which will be held from August 19 – 21, 2013 in Mexico City, Mexico. This is the first time that the PKP Conference is being held in Latin America, a region of the world that publishes almost exclusively in Open Access.

The newest Public Knowledge Project (PKP) software module, the Open Monograph Press (OMP) 1.0 (Beta), was released on September 17th, 2012. As part of OMP’s release strategy, PKP is working closely with several early adopters who are using OMP in a production environment and who will provide feedback on their experiences with the software.