PKP Blog

New guide on LDAP and Shibboleth available
November 26, 2008

Matt Crider has just written a new guide for integrating LDAP and/or Shibboleth with both OJS and OCS. It's available in both HTML and PDF.

This guide illustrates how to set up LDAP or Shibboleth authentication with OJS or OCS. Please note that it is not a guide on installing and configuring either service on its own, and only deals with integrating our software with each service.

Sources of Support for Open Access
November 3, 2008

The open access journal Communications in Information Literacy has published The Economics of Open Access on their decision to use the online print on demand service lulu.com and their belief "that a new path of scholarly communication is presently being established by new ideas, innovative technologies, and creative publishing models".

PKP 2009 Conference: Call for Papers
November 2, 2008

The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that the second international PKP conference will be held from July 8 – 10, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first PKP conference was an overwhelming success with presentations and participants from around the world.

PKP 2009 Conference: Registration Opens
November 2, 2008

Registration is now open for the Second International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference.

Registration spaces are limited, so please sign up soon!

Publishing Services: An Emerging Role for Research Libraries
November 2, 2008

EDUCAUSE interviews Karen Hahn about libraries and publishing, with a mention of OJS and Synergies.

CSIC Journals in ThomsonReuters (ISI) Web of Science (WoS) and SCOPUS databases
October 28, 2008

Several of Spain's CSIC journals (using OJS) are now indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.

Congratulations to the CSIC team for making this happen!

Open Humanities Press: More Journals Participating
October 23, 2008

From their press release:

For Immediate Release, October 23, 2008
Contact: Sigi Jöttkandt: +32 (0)2 792 7346
Open Humanities Press
sigij@openhumanitiespress.org

OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS: MORE JOURNALS PARTICIPATING – Joining the pioneering open access publisher this month are journals specializing in postcolonial literary studies, visual narrative and contemporary media culture.

OJS now used by 2000 journals
October 14, 2008

In conjunction with Open Access Day, we are very happy to announce that OJS is now being used by at least 2000 journals!

Registrations now open for Open Access Publishing
October 1, 2008

A registration form is now available for Open Access Publishing: a Public Knowledge Project Workshop.

OCS 2.1.1 Released
September 24, 2008

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OCS 2.1.1.

OCS 2.1.1 builds on the solid OCS 2.1 release with a number of minor bugfixes and many new features, including:

* Google Analytics and phpMyVisites support
* Catalan support
* Preview of unpublished abstracts
* Additional RSS options

To download OCS 2.1.1, see the download page.

Special thanks to the many contributors who made this release possible.

OJS now available in Farsi
September 10, 2008

Thanks to the diligent work of Mahmoud Saghaei, OJS 2.2.2 has been completely translated into Farsi.

We are also very happy to provide a Jalali Calendar plugin, which converts the Gregorian calendar of a typical OJS install into the Persian. This plugin is based on code Mahmoud generously shared with the OJS community.

Many thanks to Mahmoud, both for the translation and for the code contributions!

First Open Access Day to be held October 14, 2008
August 29, 2008

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Building on the worldwide momentum toward Open Access to publicly funded research, Open Access Day will create a key opportunity for the higher education community and the general public to understand more clearly the opportunities of wider access and use of content.

OJS 2.2.2 Released
August 27, 2008

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.2.2.

OJS 2.2.2 is a maintenance release that fixes several minor bugs in OJS 2.2.1. These include:

  • Tag name mismatch on XML generated by DOAJ Import/Export
  • Author can't view all files uploaded by the reviewer
  • Scheduled but unpublished articles showing up in Titles list
  • Prevent prefetches from affecting admin/editorial areas
PKP 2009 Conference in Vancouver Announced
August 27, 2008

The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce that the second international PKP conference will be held from July 8 – 10, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The first PKP conference was an overwhelming success with presentations and participants from around the world. A selected set of conference papers was subsequently published in the October 2007 issue of First Monday.

Open access responds to public's hunger for knowledge
August 13, 2008

John Willinsky and Deborah Stipek (the I. James Quillen Dean and Professor of Education at Stanford University) have written "Open access responds to public's hunger for knowledge" for The Mercury News, discussing the move to open access as Harvard and Stanford.

Citizens have new opportunities to consider and critically review sources of information. Open access of scholarly research can only add to the educational and deliberative quality of democratic life.

Lemon8-XML Public Beta Released
June 20, 2008

After over a year of complete code re-development and incorporating feedback from a number of partner journals, the PKP is pleased to announce the open source release of Lemon8-XML beta.

Although many of the features are still in development, we encourage anyone interested to download the software, poke around, get involved, and offer your comments and feedback.

To download the Lemon8-XML beta, see the download page.

New Document: Using PayPal for OJS and OCS Payments
August 12, 2008

The latest versions of OJS and OCS support interoperability with the popular PayPal online payment system. It will allow you to collect a variety of registration, author submission, donation, and other fees securely and online -- without your users needing to have a PayPal account at all.

To get started, take a look at the document "Using PayPal for OJS and OCS Payments". It outlines the steps required to create a PayPal account and configure OJS and OCS to collect secure online payments.

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics - issue on citation analysis
August 11, 2008

ESEP has just published an issue on the "use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance".

From the editors:

New PKP Group on University Web Developers
August 5, 2008

If you are a web developer for an academic institution, you might already know about the University Web Developers online community.

I've recently created a new PKP group here, so sign up, and meet others working on similar projects.

Guides for OA journal publishers
July 31, 2008

Peter Suber is pointing to a great new resource for OA publishers. With titles like "Best Practices Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing" (from our friends at Co-Action), you might want to take a look.