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.

The University of Alberta Libraries provides another great example of libraries becoming more directly involved in the scholarly publishing process on their campus. They are offering repository (DSpace), conference (OCS), and journal (OJS) publishing services.

Be sure to check out their Memorandum of Agreement between the library and the journals.

The list of related links in the sidebar is also very useful. Nice job.

The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (ASPR) is hosting a PKP Users group meeting at the University of Sydney on December 4 and 5, 2008.

The speakers will include John and MJ from PKP, as well as many members of the Australian PKP community.

It is outstanding to see this group developing, and we hope that it will inspire others to set something similar up in their own countries.

Brian Owen and I will be giving a one day OJS workshop at the Berlin 6 Conference in Dusseldorf (NOT Berlin), Germany, on November 14, 2008.

If you're coming to conference and are interested in the workshop, you should sign up soon, as it is limited to 30 people, and spaces are already being taken.

We hope to see you there!

If you haven't seen Health and Human Rights: An International Journal yet, you should definitely take a look. It is a wonderful example of taking the OJS framework and customizing it into something quite beautiful. Nice work, folks!

The PKP Team has created a new document specific to OCS and OJS: The OxS Quick Reference.

This reference document covers common system tasks for both OCS and OJS. It includes instructions on: installing and configuring the software on a server; publishing content; and practicing necessary server administration tasks (making backups, upgrading, troubleshooting, etc.). It also includes additional material useful for developers who are looking to make additions and modifications to the code.

Interested in getting a sneak preview of the upcoming changes in OJS 2.2.1? Want to get a head start on installing the new files on your system? If so, please join the OJS 2.2.1 testing team and put the latest version of OJS through its paces!

As part of ensuring that this new version of OJS is ready for general release, we would like to ask you to consider volunteering to do some testing of the software. The testing will take place over a two week period, beginning today (June 13, 2008).

An OJS promoter and an academic sat down for a coffee. The academic had recently started an OJS journal but didn’t seem to have the same excitement as the OJS promoter.

"Isn’t it great! Its so easy to start a journal with OJS!" the OJS promoter said with a radiating glee.

"I suppose it easy to start a journal with OJS" the academic replied half-heartedly. "But, let me tell you about the time it takes to run a journal properly...".

Bobby Graham at the National Library of Australia pointed me to some PKP-related content in the latest issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing (vol 11, iss 2).

In particular, check out Julian Fisher's article on the "real costs and real freedoms" in scholarly publishing and Colin Steele's work on monograph publishing.

Lots of other very good stuff here too (as usual).