The Charlesworth Group has announced the launch of a new, peer-reviewed journal using OJS -- the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES).

JAMES is the only journal devoted to modeling Earth systems. JAMES maintains high standards of formal peer review, and provides authors the opportunity to participate in an interactive discussion forum. JAMES is committed to removing publication barriers and offers high quality publication services at minimal cost.

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), an innovative, open access OJS journal, has been recognized by Thomson Reuters Impact Factor rankings as the top cited, number one ranked journal in its discipline.

Congratulations on this wonderful achievement! It is a worthy reflection of JMIR's tireless efforts and pursuit of innovative open access approaches to publishing and sharing this work.

PKP associates Michael Felczak, Richard Smith, and Rowland Lorimer have published a new article providing a brief overview of their OJS journal, Canadian Journal of Communication, the Public Knowledge Project, and the Canadian Synergies project.

PKP researchers Rick Kopak and Chia-Ning Chiang have published "An interactive reading environment for online scholarly journals: The Open Journal Systems Reading Tools" in the latest issue of OCLC Systems & Services.

Thanks to the dedicated work of the Romanian translation team (Viorel Guliciuc, Mihai Dreve, Iulian Sadoveac, Constantinescu Nicolaie) and the Welsh translation team (Swansea University), OJS is now available in Romanian and Welsh.

This puts the number of completed or in-progress OJS translations up to 33! It is a wonderful reflection of the important work of the international PKP community. Our thanks go out to them all.

The Public Knowledge Project’s survey of journals that are using Open Journal Systems was completed by 1,081 respondents, representing roughly 35 percent of the journals using OJS. The analysis of this data is now underway, led by Brian Edgar, with the results to be posted on this site. Thanks go out to all who contributed and the three winners of the survey draw are Claire Borody, Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of Practice-based Research in Theatre, Ricardo Silva, Editor-in-Chief of Política & Sociedad, and Joanne Mullins, Coordinator of the Monash University ePress.

The PKP Development Team is pleased to announce the release of OJS 2.2.3.

OJS 2.2.3 is a maintenance release that fixes several minor bugs in OJS 2.2.2 and introduces several new features. These include:

* Added nl_NL locale
* Numerous languages updated
* Add TinyMCE support to reviewer comments
* Overhaul DOI generation
* Overhaul COUNTER statistics storage
* Link article title on TOC
* HTTPS login fixed
* PostgreSQL nullable fixes

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) are pleased to announce that they will jointly host the 1st Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers in Lund, Sweden from the 14th-16th September 2009 at the Scandic Star Hotel.

We just received two bits of great Norway-specific news today:

Karl Henrik Flyum, a lecturer at the University of Oslo who has translated different versions of OJS into Norwegian, has started a blog for Norwegian OJS users and supporters, available at http://ojsan.no.