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Open Monograph Press

The full, end-to-end solution for publishing books. Publish your monographs and edited volumes with full metadata for worldwide dissemination and discovery. Manage submissions and conduct internal and external reviews in a single, intuitive workflow.
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Download and install OMP on your own server.
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Documentation

Our technical documentation for sysadmins, plugin developers, and theme builders.
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User Guides

Tutorials and step-by-step guides for librarians, publishers and editorial managers.
The full, end-to-end solution for publishing books. Publish your monographs and edited volumes with full metadata for worldwide dissemination and discovery. Manage submissions and conduct internal and external reviews in a single, intuitive workflow.
download icon

Download

Download and install OMP on your own server.
software icon indicating code

Documentation

Our technical documentation for sysadmins, plugin developers, and theme builders.
software icon indicating guides

User Guides

Tutorials and step-by-step guides for librarians, publishers and editorial managers.

Everything a book publisher needs

1
Invite authors to submit to your press through a configurable, step-by-step submission wizard.
2
Select peer reviewers, assign due dates, and send reminders to keep everyone on schedule.
3
Publish books to your own website in PDF, ePub, or any publication format, alongside supplementary materials.
4
Drive the dissemination and discovery of your work through Google Scholar, full ONIX creation, and OAI-PMH metadata harvesters.

Everything a book publisher needs

1
Invite authors to submit to your press through a configurable, step-by-step submission wizard.
2
Select peer reviewers, assign due dates, and send reminders to keep everyone on schedule.
3
Publish books to your own website in PDF, ePub, or any publication format, alongside supplementary materials.
4
Drive the dissemination and discovery of your work through Google Scholar, full ONIX creation, and OAI-PMH metadata harvesters.

Key Features

An all-in-one platform with the power to support modern book publishing for a global audience.
Flexible editorial workflow
Run a streamlined publishing pipeline with editors, copyeditors, translators and production assistants.
Stay on schedule
Track every submission and find out quickly when editors and reviewers are falling behind.
Peer review
Conduct internal and external review rounds, with tools to help you find the right reviewer every time.
Your books, your brand
Create a custom theme for your press or customize our responsive default theme to fit your brand.
Rich publication metadata
Distribute book and chapter metadata in machine-readable formats like ONIX and OAI-PMH.
Global scholarly infrastructure
Integrate with established and emerging industry standards such as DOIs, ORCID authentication and ROR affiliations.
Multiple languages
Born in multilingual Canada, our software allows you to publish books in one, two or as many languages as you need.
Own your data
No lock-ins or walled gardens. Use import/export tools to take your data anywhere, even to a different platform.
Sell books
Accept online or offline payments and sell books directly through your catalog.
Track your success
View detailed book-by-book statistics and monitor editorial metrics like response times and reviews per submission.
Audio/video and datasets
Publish audio and video files, research datasets, and supplementary material alongside full-text PDFs, ePubs, HTML files, and more.
Preserve the scholarly record
Post new editions and keep a record of old editions with versioned metadata.
“OMP is a comfortable open source solution for open access publishing, developed by a dedicated team of developers. Especially convenient is the possibility to extend the software via plugins.”

-Dr. Maria Effinger, Head of Department Publication Services, Heidelberg University Library

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How It Works

  • Screenshot of the submission wizard in OMP
  • Screenshot of the file upload step of the submission wizard in OMP
  • Screenshot of the editorial list of submissions in OMP
  • Screenshot of the review stage of the editorial workflow in OMP
  • Screenshot of ONIX book metadata in OMP
  • Screenshot of the book catalog in OMP
  • Screenshot of book statistics in OMP
  • Screenshot of the user role configuration in OMP
  • Screenshot of multilingual book metadata in OMP
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  • Authors submit to your press through an easy, step-by-step wizard that collects all the information you need to evaluate a new submission.
  • Authors can upload all of their draft files through a drag-and-drop interface, including chapter files, figures and tables, and other supporting materials.
  • Editors can search and filter their submissions to track them through the submission, review, copyediting and production stages. Managing editors can assign editors and monitor each editor’s assignments.
  • Assign internal and external reviewers to conduct anonymous or open review, set due dates with automated reminders, and see when their responses are overdue.
  • Enter complete ONIX metadata for books and chapters to be included in discovery services.
  • Publish books directly to an easy-to-use, mobile-friendly website with searching and browsing by series or category.
  • Get detailed usage statistics on views and downloads for every book you publish.
  • A configurable user role system lets you adapt the workflow to your publishing pipeline with editors, copyeditors and production assistants.
  • Publish in more than one language with fully multilingual publication metadata.

HOSTING & OTHER SERVICES

Want to focus on publishing and have the technical work of installation, hosting, troubleshooting, and upgrades taken care of? PKP offers complete hosting and support plans for OJS, OMP, and OPS, plus training, consulting, and custom development.

Get Help & Support

There’s plenty of help when you need it. Learn what’s available from PKP and our community of thousands of scholarly communications professionals.

Training

Get your whole team up and running quickly with these training resources, including how to set up a press and best practices in publishing.

Documentation

Comprehensive documentation on how to install and use our software, along with helpful guides on how to get indexed, keeping your software up-to-date and secure, and a whole lot more.

Community Forum

Join hundreds of editors and publishers on our Forum, where our community asks and answers questions, and shares tips on how to achieve their publishing goals.

Get Help & Support

There’s plenty of help when you need it. Learn what’s available from PKP and our community of thousands of scholarly communications professionals.

Training

Get your whole team up and running quickly with these training resources, including how to set up a press and best practices in publishing.

Documentation

Comprehensive documentation on how to install and use our software, along with helpful guides on how to get indexed, keeping your software up-to-date and secure, and a whole lot more.

Community Forum

Join hundreds of editors and publishers on our Forum, where our community asks and answers questions, and shares tips on how to achieve their publishing goals.

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The PKP Story

For  more than two decades, PKP has helped researchers, scholarly societies, and academic libraries take back control of the scholarly publishing in the service of they and their colleagues’ work.
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Why Open Source

The principles and practices of open source software enable everyone to participate in open access publishing, because scholarly infrastructure should be as open as the science.