In this segment of Archipelago, explore the recap of events since September 2025. Events in Latin America In September and October 2025, PKP participated in two events in Ecuador. First, PKP’s Publication Support Specialist Pedro López Casique participated in a hands-on workshop on the role of metadata in scholarly publishing. Together with Crossref, Pedro explored […] The post Featured Events Recap appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

Canada is positioned as a leader in diamond open access with a strong foundation, investment in open infrastructure, unique funding models, wide-spread adoption of Open Journal Systems (OJS), and a focus on what really matters to Canadian scholarly knowledge creators, mobilizers, and publishers. Canada has a longstanding, internationally recognized leadership role in scholarly communications.

For over 8 years, the Coalition Publica partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has been a force in consolidating support for Canada’s open access scholarly publishing communities.

How does documentation and multilingualism intersect with inclusive global publishing? Get an inside perspective in this interview with Emma Uhl, PKP Documentation and Multilingualism Specialist.

Recent accessibility efforts in scholarly publishing are driven in part by acts such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and new Title II regulations requiring digital accessibility, with key compliance deadlines approaching in 2026. PKP shares the work it is doing to ensure accessibility in its publishing platforms.

Strengthening multilingual publishing, metadata integrity, and integrating invitation-based roles and reviewers.

On October 15th, 2025, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB, the German National Library of Science and Technology) announced the PKP Open Journal Systems (OJS) Deutschland Consortium 2026 – 2028 on the TIB Blog. Diesen Beitrag auf Deutsch lesen. At PKP, part of our mission has always been to support sustainable, community-driven open scholarly infrastructure.

PKP invites those interested in the developments that underpin its scholarly publishing software to join in on December 15th, 2025, for a Development News Update Webinar. This event is open to all our community members.

Are you a researcher, editor, journal manager, librarian, or scholarly communications professional looking to develop your skills? Are you interested in learning more about the values, influences, technologies, and standards shaping today’s scholarly publishing ecosystem?

L’appel de propositions du Forum des revues étudiantes est ouvert ! Cet appel s’adresse aux étudiants canadiens qui participent à la publication de revues étudiantes ou qui s’y intéressent. The English version is available here.

The Student Journal Forum Call for Proposals is open! The call is open to students in Canada who are involved with or interested in student journal publishing. Version française disponible ici.