We have updated the "Journals Using Open Journal Systems by Continent" map for January 2010, with over 5000 known journals included.

It provides an interesting look at where the software is being used. The work of African Journals Online has had a strong influence in Africa, and we're looking forward to continued growth through our ongoing partnerships in Asia, Latin America, and the rest of the world.

Thanks to the efforts of esteemed forum regular Tyler Mitchell (Spatialguru), there is now a dedicated #PKP IRC channel on Freenode!

Tyler volunteered to set this up a short time ago, and has arranged with the freenode admins to have it be a dedicated channel. You can find more information in this forum thread. Information on Freenode and IRC is here.

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OCS 2.3.

The Nordic Open Access Publishing web site has a list of Nordic journals using OJS. This kind of regional organizing is very nice to see happening.

If you are working with a similar regional group, please let me know.

About twice a month PKP will send a list of general questions someone who is doing interesting things with our software, such as publishing in interesting ways; special customizations; plugin or development work; extended institutional integration work; and so on. The resulting questionnaire will be published on this page, and publicized on our blog. Prospective candidates for these interviews can send an email to pkp-support [AT] pkp.sfu.ca.

About once a month PKP will send a list of general questions to a user of our software who is doing interesting things, such as publishing in interesting ways; special customizations; plugin or development work; extended institutional integration work; and so on. The resulting questionnaire will be published on this page, and publicized on our blog. Prospective candidates for these interviews can send an email to pkp-support [AT] pkp.sfu.ca.

The Open Humanities Press has migrated two more journals to OJS: Film-Philosophy and Image [&] Narrative.

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!

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!