Our partners at the Freie Universität Berlin have put together some videos from the PKP 2011 conference in Berlin, Germany back in September.

From there, you will also find links to some of the conference papers and presentation files.

For those of you unable to attend, we hope the videos provide some sense of what a great event this was!

The V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine is the largest library in Ukraine, a research institution of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, one of the main scientific information centers of the Eastern Europe and one of the top 20 world's largest libraries. The library is a provider and adopter of the national open access policies of Ukraine, is the nationwide holder and online publisher of all scientific serials and theses, and is financed by the State budget of Ukraine.

The OJS Userguide has now been translated into Spanish! The translation was coordinated by our partners at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and is available in HTML and PDF (PDF is 21MB).

This is a significant contribution to the PKP documentation effort, and will be of immediate use to many, many members of the PKP community worldwide. A full attribution, in Spanish, is as follows:

The annual ELPUB conference has issued its Call for Papers for 2012 in Portugal. From their web site:

The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce several positive outcomes from the PKP2011 Scholarly Publishing Conference Hackfest. A conference Hackfest is an opportunity to network with developers and cooperate on small projects of mutual interest. Themes for this Hackfest included Social Networking, Open Reviews, Liquid Publishing, and Integration & Interoperability.

Participation was lower than expected, but the PKP development team, Simon Fraser University, the University of New Brunswick, and the Free University of Berlin were represented, along with several new faces.

Today we would like to draw your attention to the upcoming PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011 which will take place in just about one month from now.

The Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, organized by the Public Knowledge Project, in partnership with Freie Universitaet Berlin and Simon Fraser University Library.

Registration is still possible and there are still a few places available.

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is pleased to announce that the University Library System (ULS), University of Pittsburgh has entered into a major partnership with PKP, furthering a commitment to the development of scholarly communication software.

The PKP team is happy to announce that the release of OCS 2.3.4 is almost here.

OCS 2.3.4 includes over 85 bug fixes since OCS 2.3.3-1 and is intended as a stable upgrade or install.

If you are planning to upgrade to OCS 2.3.4, we'd appreciate your help in testing the updated, second release candidate (RC2) package during the next two weeks.

Any feedback or issues encountered with real-world data would be greatly appreciated.

The Partnership journal has just published their latest issue, including a video of John Willinsky's recent presentation at the OLA Super Conference, "Libraries on the Tipping Point of Open Access".

You can watch it (and other video presentations) on PKP TV.