As part of our ongoing strategic planning process, we’re pleased to release our 2017 – 2021 Strategy. This document has been in development for the past 6 months, going through an extensive process of community consultation and revision.

We’re pleased to release this year’s Annual Report to the Community, which provides a brief overview of our activities and financial information for the past year. We hope you will find it valuable, and we welcome your comments or feedback. Special thanks to Tony Lu, the SFU Library’s outstanding graphic designer, for his work in making the report readable and visually appealing.

If you weren’t able to make the PKP Annual General Meeting, don’t despair! You can view the recording here. The post PKP Virtual AGM – Recording appeared first on Public Knowledge Project.

The PKP 2017 Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 15 from 9am – 11am Pacific Time . It is a free, open meeting, so everyone is welcome to attend. To register, please fill in this brief form. A link to the online event will be sent to you in advance of the meeting.

The upcoming sprint at the PKP conference in Montréal on August 2 and 3 will also include a “Documentation sprint.” The documentation sprint will have two focuses: one focus will include participants working to finalize a new edition of the Getting Found, Staying Found guide. This will include doing some updates, revisions, and expansion to the guide.

UPDATED: We’re extending the Early Bird rate to June 9! We’re incredibly excited about how the program for PKP 2017 is developing — take a look!

The PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) has now been in production for a little over a year, and the PKP team would like to share some data on what the PLN is preserving. The PKP PLN is a free service that uses open-source software and a network of partners to create a “dark archive” of OJS journals that is distributed across the globe.

The Sixth PKP International Scholarly Publishing Conference is now open for registration. Our program is still growing but take a look at what we have planned so far, including a great selection of lightning talks (with more to come). With perspectives from around the world, covering topics from library-based publishing to XML to open educational resources, we do hope you will join us in Montreal on August 2nd, 3rd, and 4th!

PKP is currently developing its new strategy plan for 2017 – 2021 to guide our efforts over the next 5 years. To ensure we are meeting the needs of the international PKP community, we would like to share the latest draft of the document with you and invite your feedback. The document is intended to be brief, high-level, and will be used to assist us in making more detailed decisions that will become part of our more focused work plans.

We are pleased to announce that the PKP 2017 Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 15 from 9am – 11am Pacific Time. To maximize participation, the meeting will be online, so everyone is welcome to attend. Agenda items will include updates on current OJS and other software developments, progress on grants and other funding initiatives, research reports, a budget review, a community Q + A session, and more.

Since about March 29, 2017 some reports of widespread “hacking”, or defacement of OJS sites has been causing some concern. The “hacking” has involved pointing to an image that has been uploaded to the affected sites, the presence of which supposedly indicates successful defacement.