PKP Blog

February 8, 2010

The PKP team has identified a bug in PayPal payment management in OJS 2.2.x.

It is recommended that all users of OJS 2.2.x follow the instructions provided in the PKP support forum to patch their OJS install:

http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5762

February 5, 2010

February 2010, Stockholm & Lund: Co-Action Publishing and Lund University Libraries Main Office are pleased to announce the launch of the Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing at http://www.doaj.org/bpguide.

January 29, 2010

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.

January 21, 2010

Our friends at the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning have long supported MP3 versions of articles on their OJS journal site, but I see they have now added both EPUB (for ebooks) and Elluminate Recording (for online presentations) formats to their resources. Their leadership is inspiring!

January 19, 2010

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.

January 19, 2010

The peer-reviewed, independent, open access, multilingual journal Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA) launches a site redesign using OJS 2.3! The 18 year old journal gets a new look, blog integration, reading tools, and more.

To read the official announcement and visit the new site click here.

versions also in spanish and portuguese

January 18, 2010

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

January 16, 2010

About twice 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.

December 31, 2009

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.

December 30, 2009

Thanks to the great work of Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University and the Canadian Journal of African Studies, University of Alberta, we have linked a large selection of online training tutorials on our web site.

If you have produced some online tutorials, or know of others, please let me know.

December 24, 2009

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.

December 22, 2009

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.3.1.

OJS 2.3.1 builds upon the OJS 2.3.0 release with a number of minor bug fixes and code tune-ups, and adds a number of translations that were not complete in the OJS 2.3.0 release.

December 22, 2009

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.

December 2, 2009

Elinor Ostrom, a guest-editor, author, and member of the Editorial Board for the The International Journal of the Commons, an open access, OJS journal which is published by Igitur, Utrecht Publishing and Archiving Services, has won the Nobel Prize in Economics!

November 30, 2009

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

November 21, 2009

OISE at the University of Toronto has posted the video from John's recent talk.

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!

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

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!

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