PKP Blog

OPPORTUNITY: Book Publishing Immersion Workshop at Simon Fraser
June 9, 2011

The publishing duties of many librarians are growing. While librarians are experts in data management, assuming a publisher’s role without experience can prove daunting. Our course curriculum ensures that participants will, upon graduation, have the skills that they need to spearhead publishing endeavours with confidence.

SFU is pleased to announce that, as a result of a gift from an anonymous donor, three seats in the Book Publishing Immersion workshop (July 10-23, 2011) have been reserved for post-secondary-based librarians at a discounted rate.

SFU Summer Publishing Workshops during June, July and August 2011
June 6, 2011

NEW in 2011: Investigative Writing with Stevie Cameron, Researching for Fiction Writers, E-Books In a Day, Web Publishing Toolkit, Use It or Lose It: Redesigning Your Site to Optimize User Experience, Website Design for Editors.

FEATURED COURSES IN 2011: Book Design Intensive with Peter Cocking of D&M Publishers: June 24-26; Book Publishing Immersion: July 10-23; Magazine Publishing - A Crash Course: July 28-29; Digital Rebuild: August 2-3.

OJS 2.3.5 Released
June 1, 2011

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.3.5.

OJS 2.3.5 builds upon the successful 2.3.4 release by incorporating the recommended patches (http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/OJS_2.3.4_Recommended_Patches) for that release.

PKP 2011 - Early Bird Deadline Extended
May 27, 2011

We've extended the deadline for the reduced "early bird" registration rate to June 13, 2011. If you haven't registered yet, be sure to do so before that date passes!

CNI Podcast: The Public Knowledge Project's Brian Owen
May 13, 2011

In this interview with Brian Owen, Associate Librarian at Simon Fraser University, he talks about the current and future plans for the Public Knowledge Project.

 

PKP Conference 2011 - Preliminary Program Available
May 13, 2011

We're still making some final changes and confirmations, but we wanted to let everyone know about the preliminary program for the upcoming PKP conference in Berlin. Take a look at it here, and then be sure to register!

Article: Development of Disruptive Open Access Journals
May 12, 2011

Terry Anderson and Brigette McConkey have written a very useful case study of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Education (IRRODL) -- an outstanding example of an OJS journal. There is much useful information here for any open access journal.

OJS 2.3.5 RC1 Ready to Test
May 6, 2011

We'd like to welcome everyone interested in downloading, installing, and testing 2.3.5 RC1 to take it out for a spin. Please report any bugs that you discover here. The more people that can test out this release, the stronger it will be!

PKP is Hiring!
April 11, 2011

Interested in working with PKP? We're hiring!

Over 9000 OJS Installations
April 6, 2011

As of April 2011, we have discovered over 9000 OJS installations from around the world:

We're continuing to see strong growth from around the world, with OJS being used for traditional journals, but also for reports, learning management systems, monographs, and more.

Presentation: Creating an Open Access Journal
March 23, 2011

Peter Suber has linked to a new presentation from UNC on Creating an Open Access Journal using OJS. It is well worth taking the time to review, especially if you are planning to start a new OA journal.

PKP 2011 Conference - Call for Proposals
November 23, 2010

The Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
Building and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the World

SPARC Europe Award - Call for Nominations
March 14, 2011

Until 15 May 2011, SPARC Europe will be accepting nominations for the sixth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications and Open Access. You can find more information on their web site.

PKP Europe Network Opens
March 14, 2011

SPARC Europe and PKP are happy to invite you and/or your organisation to join our recently established European PKP Network.

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and SPARC Europe are working together to build a community of users across the continent interested in the development of PKP’s open source scholarly publishing software, including OJS, OCS, OHS, and OMP (Open Monograph Press, not released as yet).

OJS Latin America Blog
March 10, 2011

If you are in Latin America and are using OJS, you will definitely want to check out the OJS Latin America Blog. It is an excellent resource to add to your RSS feed reader!

For people interested in building local communities around OJS or other PKP tools, this serves as an outstanding example!

PKP Conference Submission Deadline Extended
March 10, 2011

Just a quick note to let you know that the submission deadline for the upcoming PKP Conference has been extended to March 31, 2011. If you are planning to get something in, you've just been given a few more days to finish it off. If you decided not to submit because you ran out of time, you now have no excuse!

New Publication: Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication and University Engagement
February 16, 2011

From the abstract:

Canada has earned worldwide attention for its general level of digital innovation in scholarly and research communication and particularly for innovation in journal publishing.

Rowland Lorimer and Johanne Provençal assembled a team of 15 colleagues to produce this SSHRC-funded synthesis paper which outlines digitally enabled developments in scholarly activity, journal publishing, monograph publishing, library activities, and university engagement with the community.

OJS 2.3.4 Released
February 2, 2011

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.3.4.

OJS 2.3.4 builds upon the successful 2.3.3 release by incorporating the Recommended Patches (see http://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/OJS_2.3.3-3_Recommended_Patches) for that release, and adding two new features:

  • OpenAIRE Compliance
  • Subscribers Report Plugin
OJS now compliant with OpenAIRE: New plug-in released
February 2, 2011

Open Journal Systems (OJS) now includes a plug-in to support authors’ compliance with the European open access policies, i.e. the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Open Access Pilot and the European Research Council (ERC) Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access. While submitting their articles to an OJS-based journal authors can now easily acknowledge the related project funding.

International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference – First confirmed speakers
February 1, 2011

We are pleased to announce the first confirmed speakers for the Third International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference - “Building and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the World”, which will be held from September 26 - 28, 2011 at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.