The Supreme Court of Canada has issued an important decision in the longstanding dispute between the collective society Access Copyright and York University over paying royalties on course readings. Although the high court did not squarely address the practical effects of the ruling, it affirmed that Access Copyright’s tariffs are not mandatory and that fair dealing can apply in such circumstances.

We would like to invite the community to help us with these tests. We have received 3 quick tests to help us assess their feasibility. Each link is an independent interface. Please test each link separately.

With the pandemic, 2020 presented challenges to everyone, including scholars, publishers, and educational institutions. Despite these challenges, the scholarly community continued to publish important research and broaden the impact of their work. In fact, shrinking institutional budgets inspired renewed interest in open access publishing and supporting open scholarly infrastructure.

OJS supports various galley formats; these are the final publication-ready files that journals prepare for readers and publish on the article page. These formats include PDF, HTML, XML and ePub. OJS also supports multimedia formats like MP3 and videos. PDF is the most common galley format that journals publish. It is the easiest to convert and is preferred as it closely resembles a printed page.

The Public Knowledge Project’s (PKP) 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held Friday, June 18, 2020 from 9:00AM-10:00AM PDT. This is a free, online event open to everyone. This has been a year of tremendous change. Join the PKP team as we reflect on the past year and what it means for PKP’s present and future.

Today we celebrate the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and the progress that PKP and the OJS community have made towards making scholarly publishing more accessible – and thus open for all.

UPDATE June 1 2021: The deadline for applications has passed, and applications are no longer accepted. PKP is currently seeking a talented, full-time Communications Manager to help with PKP’s wide-ranging communications efforts.

Adapted from an email announcement from the Library Publishing Coalition, sent May 5, 2021. PKP is delighted to announce, in collaboration with the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC), the launch of a new series of courses in PKP School: Getting Started in Library Publishing . This four-course series is adapted from the LPC’s Library Publishing Curriculum, which originally launched in Google Drive in 2018 as a suite of synchronous

Since the release of OJS/OMP/OPS 3.3, we’ve been hard at work planning our next major release. In this post, I’ll kick off our 3.4 development cycle by sharing our plans for the next six months, including major work on email notifications, DOIs, accessibility, and code modernization.

Coalition Publica is pleased to announce the 2021 Call for Proposals – Big Data. Non-commercial research projects in the digital humanities are invited to apply for access to the largest digital research corpus of Canadian full text periodicals available.

This month we released OJS/OMP/OPS 3.3. These release packages were in development for nearly a year and represent a major step forward in our efforts to modernize the codebase and improve our release process. In this post, I’ll describe some of the key changes we’re making to the way we build software and how that will benefit our community.