Join us with our friends at McGill University for a live webcast of the first preview of Open Monograph Press on Friday, May 28, 2010 from 1:45pm - 4:30pm Eastern Time.

More information on this web cast, and the other events taking place at McGill on that day, please visit their ePublishing in the Scholarly Community web site.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research as a Public Good: Identifying Research Prospects for Advancing Research Among Academic and Non-Academic Discourse Communities

May 27, 2010 - Concordia University, Montreal

This SSHRC-funded workshop organized by John Willinsky, Johanne Provençal and Rowland Lorimer will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to discuss possibilities, partnerships and projects to extend the reach of social sciences and humanities research as a public good.

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OHS 2.3.0.

This is a major rewrite of numerous parts of the Harvester code, including metadata storage and indexing. It increases indexing flexibility to support plugin-based indexing, including Lucene/SOLR support. It also adds OAI Data Provider support, including the potential to convert between metadata formats (currently from various formats into Dublin Core).

OHS 2.3.0 is available at http://pkp.sfu.ca/harvester_download.

Business models for open access are still evolving, and advertising is one possible option to bring in funds (or increase readership through cross-promoting related journals or conferences).

Jan Erik Frantsvåg of the University of Tromsø has conducted a study of advertising and OA journals and shares the results in the latest issue of First Monday. From the abstract:

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

OCS 2.3.0 introduced a major rewrite of core aspects of PKP applications that reconciles common code (e.g. shared between OJS, OCS, and the Harvester) into a separate library called the PKP Web Application Library (WAL). Many parts of the system were been changed in a way that is transparent to users but that will vastly improve maintainability and the ease with which PKP can deploy fixes and new features across multiple applications.

When you plan to use DOI, HANDLE, PURL or any other link resolver for your articles then please consider the following thread on Google's Webmaster forum.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=7bdfa71c272ed8c1&hl=en

As you can read, there may be an impact on your ranking on the general Google index. Your ranking on Google Scholar will probably not be impacted.

CHICAGO — The Library & Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has announced the 2010 winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology.

John Willinsky and Brian Edgar have conducted a survey of 998 scholarly journals using OJS, capturing "the characteristics of an emerging class of scholar-publisher open access journals (with some representation from more traditional scholarly society and print-based titles)".

You can read the pre-publication version here, and the published version will soon be available from the Scholarly and Research Communication.

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.