PKP Blog

Indiana University's Symposia Conference
November 20, 2009

Indiana University's Medieval Studies Institute is using OCS for their upcoming Symposia conference "The Foreign, The Familiar, and the Fantastic in the Middle Ages".

Not only does the content promise to be fascinating, but their site design is a beautiful example of how OCS can be customized. Nice job!

Funding Opportunities for German Open Access Journals
November 18, 2009

German journal managers can apply to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for funding for expenses arising from the creation, expansion, transformation and operation of scholarly electronic publications. Among other costs, the DFG can finance contributions to PKP software.

Detailed information about the funding program as well as DFG's other Open Access financing opportunities can be found here:

Program: http://www.dfg.de/forschungsfoerderung/formulare/download/12_17.pdf

WIT Libraries launches ResearchScope
November 3, 2009

WIT Libraries have launched a federated harvesting and discovery service called ResearchScope. ResearchScope is a national portal designed to raise the profile of Open Access research in Ireland - by making it more visible. Watch the video to find out more about this great new use of the PKP Harvester!

Watch: “The Right to Information Access”
October 29, 2009

The Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy presents:

“The Right to Information Access”
October 30, 2009
Penn State University, University Park Campus
State College, PA
The Hub Auditorium

UPDATE: This event will be available via a live web stream and remain freely accessible after October 30.

Web stream link for Windows Media Player Users

New Article: "Creating a library service for scholarly open access journals"
October 22, 2009

A great example of a library using OJS to offer wider services to their users. From the introduction:

In 2008 the University of Bergen Library started a project for supporting independent open access journals at the University of Bergen.1 The service was aimed at already existing journals that wanted to convert to an open access model, and to research groups that planned to establish a new electronic journal with open content.

PKP Quick Study: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
October 21, 2009

We've just posted another interview in our PKP Quick Studies series. These interviews are conducted with outstanding members of the PKP community. This month, we sent the questionnaire off to Dr. Mahmoud Saghaei, of the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, in Iran. You can read his responses here.

Open Access Week Special: All Software 2 for the price of 1!
October 18, 2009

To celebrate Open Access Week 2009 the Public Knowledge Project is pleased to offer all of our software at 2 for the price of one! Download now to take advantage of this special* offer!

New OJS Area Studies Journals
October 15, 2009

The German Institute of Global and Area Studies and the University of Hamburg have launched the GIGA Journal Family, which includes these 4 journals:

More OCS 2.3 Testers Needed
October 13, 2009

The PKP Development Team is testing OCS (2.3), and would like to invite any interested volunteers to test the software.

If you would like to install a test version locally, please follow these instructions to access the files via CVS.

If you would prefer to use our test installation, let us know, and we will create an account for you.

Any bugs should be reported directly into our Bugzilla testing system.

New SPARC guide reviews income models for supporting open-access journals
October 13, 2009

“Income models for Open Access: An overview of current practice” examines the use of supply-side revenue streams (such as article processing fees, advertising) and demand-side models (including versioning, use-triggered fees). The guide provides an overview of income models currently in use to support open-access journals, including a description of each model along with examples of journals currently employing it.

OJS - Its not just for journals anymore
October 8, 2009

I was recently asked about alternative uses of OJS and decided to hunt around to see what I could find. The results were quite interesting, with OJS being used in a number of unexpected ways. Here are some examples:

1. Student journal: http://www.librarystudentjournal.org/
2. Teaching tool: http://ejournal.vudat.msu.edu/
3. Book archive: http://journals.sfu.ca/coactionbks/

OJS 2.3 Released
October 7, 2009

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.3.0.

OHP and OJS helping philosophy go OA
October 5, 2009

For Immediate Release, October 5, 2009

Contact: Sigi Jöttkandt: sigij 'at' openhumanitiespress.org
Open Humanities Press

PHILOSOPHY JOURNAL CONVERTS TO OA, JOINS OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS – Filozofski vestnik International, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of the Arts and Sciences, has converted to open access and become part of the Open Humanities Press collective.

PKP Quick Study: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
September 28, 2009

We're pleased to announce the beginning of a new series hosted on this site: PKP Quick Studies, ongoing short interviews with outstanding members of the PKP community.

We start the series off with Marc Bria Ramírez of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, who has contributed an OJS plugin and translation (Catalan) to the PKP community, and who has also been a very helpful member to the forum.

PKP is hiring!
September 11, 2009

Interested in working with us? The Public Knowledge Project is currently looking for a skilled and committed software developer to join our team. If this sounds like you, take a look at the job posting and let us know.

OJS now available in Basque (Euskara)
September 10, 2009

Many thanks to Aitor Cuartango and the University of the Basque Country for translating OJS into Basque.

You can see all of the many translations of OJS on our OJS Languages page.

OCS 2.3 Testers Needed
September 3, 2009

The PKP Development Team is ready to begin the testing of OCS (2.3), and would like to invite any interested volunteers to test the software.

If you would like to install a test version locally, please follow these instructions to access the files via CVS.

If you would prefer to use our test installation, let us know, and we will create an account for you.

Any bugs should be reported directly into our Bugzilla testing system.

Presentation: Dr. John Willinsky - “The Public Revolution in Scholarly Communication"
August 31, 2009

On the occasion of this university awarding an honorary Doctor of Laws being to John Willinsky at Fall Convocation, the Simon Fraser University Library is pleased to host a special presentation by this innovator in scholarly communication (see attached).

Thursday, October 8, 2009
10am - 11am

Thesis Defence Room
Room 2020, 2nd floor
W.A.C. Bennett Library
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC

Free drop-in admission

PAGEPress launches 20 OA journals using OJS
August 17, 2009

The Italian publisher PAGEPress has launched 20 new open access, peer-reviewed medical and biological journals using OJS.

OJS 2.3 Testers Needed
July 22, 2009

We have started testing the next release of OJS (2.3), and would like to invite any interested volunteers in helping out.

If you'd like an early look at this new release, and would like to contribute to the Public Knowledge Project, please contact Kevin for more information.

Thanks!