In 1998, John Willinsky set out on a mission to make knowledge public – to reduce the barriers he and his students were facing in trying to access academic research. The solution, he found, was in open source software. Open Journal Systems (OJS), our flagship software, followed as a free, open source solution to facilitate this goal.

PKP announces today OJS and OMP 3.2 will be released in January 2020. To allow adequate time for testing, translation, plugin, and documentation updates, all new features will be frozen on November 1, 2019. During this freeze, until the new release, we will be conducting bug fixes in response to testing, but not adding new code.

Summer is almost over north of the equator, but before it’s gone, a shout-out to our friends at the University of Pittsburgh’s University Library System (ULS) team. On July 29-31, 2019, ULS hosted their first PKP sprint. The free, three-day event was attended by 17 participants comprised of PKP community members and staff.

The jurisdiction in which it makes the most sense to reform copyright law so that it supports, rather than deters, access to research and scholarship is the United States.

Do you work for a library, publisher, or department specializing in scholarly communications? Are you part of an organization or research team that supports scholarly publishing?

By now you’ve heard – PKP is heading to Barcelona in November for our Seventh International Scholarly Publishing Conference. Why should you join us? Maybe you use our software. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re a like-minded organization or one of our strategic partners.

There are many reasons why you should join us in Barcelona this November for PKP 2019, our Seventh International Scholarly Publishing Conference.

On July 25, 2019 we invited the PKP community-at-large to join us in a one hour virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM). If you weren’t able to attend, or are just curious about who we are and what we do, check out our AGM recording and, hot off the (virtual) press, our 2018 Annual Report.

Early registration is now open for PKP 2019, our Seventh International Scholarly Publishing Conference November 20-22, 2019 at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). We’re very excited for this year’s conference, which is shaping up to be an exciting week of events in beautiful Barcelona.

Mark your calendars! The PKP 2019 Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, July 25, 2019 . This free, online event is open to everyone. Meet our team, find out what we’ve been up to, and get a sneak peak at OJS coming attractions. Date: July 25, 2019 Time: 12pm-1pm PDT URL: https://zoom.us/j/795444902* Registration is not required.

During the first week of June this year, Canada’s Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology issued its Statutory Review of the Copyright Act Report, after an exhaustive and expensive Canada-wide polling of opinion. The result of a legislated five-year review of copyright, the report’s first recommendation is to strike this review mandate from the legislation.