The sprint notes from the PKP Hannover Sprint, hosted by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in September 2023 are now available . Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) hosted six working groups at the PKP Hannover Sprint in September. This is a summary of the Metadata working group.

The sprint notes from the PKP Hannover Sprint, hosted by the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in September 2023 are now available . Sprints involve PKP community members joining diverse groups to work on PKP software and support. The Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology (TIB) hosted six working groups at the PKP Hannover Sprint in September. This is a summary of one such group’s work.

The Global Summit on Diamond Open Access 2023, organized by Redalyc, UAEMéx, AmeliCA, UNESCO, CLACSO, UÓR, ANR, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and Science Europe, was held in Toluca, Mexico from October 23-27.  This multilingual and diverse event welcomed around 700 participants from 75 countries, including editors, universities, research organizations, funders, and policymakers.

PKP’s 25th Anniversary interview series celebrates the history of the Project and those involved – Part 4 features Silvio Carvalho Neto, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the Centro Universitário Municipal de Franca. For a quarter of a century, community partnerships have been key in PKP’s work towards making research a global public good.

You are invited to join PKP and ORCiD in this free webinar on December 13 (MST) / December 14 (WIB). Learn about OJS usage in Indonesia’s scholarly publishing landscape and get to know OJS – ORCiD interoperability. The Public Knowledge Project’s flagship software, Open Journal Systems (OJS) is the world’s most widely used journal management and publishing system with use by over 34,000 journals worldwide.

PKP and Charutar Vidya Mandal (CVM) University are pleased to invite you to an Open Journal Systems (OJS) workshop on December 8th, 2023, aimed at academics, editors, librarians, IT professionals, and open access promoters in the region . This information was originally published at the CVM website. Objectives To introduce participants to the OJS platform and help them understand its features,

PKP held a software development news update via webinar on Monday, November 20th, 2023. The recording is now available. In this webinar, Alec Smecher, Bozana Bokan, Vitaliy Bezsheiko, Devika Goel, and Jarda Kotěšovec gave updates on PKP software developments and activities.

Originally published at Stanford, CA: November 16, 2023 (links added): Stanford University Press (SUP) is delighted to announce a new collaboration with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) aimed at expanding sustainable Open Access (OA) models of journal publishing.

PKP’s 25th Anniversary interview series celebrates the history of the Project and those involved – Part 3 features Lynn Copeland, former SFU Dean of Libraries for 12 years (1998 – 2010). For a quarter of a century, community partnerships have been key in PKP’s work towards making research a global public good.

PKP invites those interested in the developments that underpin its scholarly publishing software to join in on November 20th, 2023, for a community webinar on PKP’s software development.

This announcement of SSHRC / CRSH support was was originally published on Coalition Publica’s website, in English and French, during International Open Access Week 2023.