We're very pleased to learn that the California Digital Library's eScholarship service is using OJS. They are doing tremendous work and it is great to have OJS being part of that.

The University of Murcia (Spain) is now providing the 3d edition of a course, in Spanish, on using Open Journal Systems in a scholarly publishing environment. Titled Electronic Publishing of Scholar Journals with Open Journal Systems (OJS), the course will explore the current issues surrounding the electronic publishing of scholar journals, and will fully explore the web application OJS.

The course is taught online in a virtual learning environment, and so is open to anyone in the world. Students must have Internet access and an email account for its completion.

As of July 2011, we have discovered over 10,000 OJS installations from around the world:

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

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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