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PKP Development News Webinar Recording now Available

A PKP software development update webinar happened on Monday, August 21, 9 AM Pacific Time, and the webinar recording is now available! The PKP 25 year anniversary logo is displayed at the bottom of the invite. It's a simple grey and red logo with "25" as a number at the front and the text for SFU and PKP following it horizontally. The background image was taken by PKP's Jason Nugent. The Redwood National Forest in California is dappled with sunlight making the green shine vibrantly. There is a wooden bridge spanning the forest floor over a wet patch. Wildflowers pop out from under the bridge.

PKP held a development news webinar on Monday August 21st, 2023. The recording is now available. 

In this webinar, Alec Smecher, Bozana Bokan, Vitaliy Bezsheiko, Devika Goel, and Jarda Kotěšovec gave updates on PKP software developments and activities.

These updates will be of interest to PKP’s Strategic Partners, Development Partners, Financial Contributors, and Community Contributors, as well as the wider community interested in, or using, PKP’s free and open-source software (FOSS) for independent scholarly publishing.

3.4.0 Major Features

  • New submission wizard
  • More user-friendly editorial decisions
  • New statistics, including institutional and regional
  • HTML in submission titles
  • Tons of code modernization
  • …and more!

3.5.0 Major Features

  • Major rework of submission lists
  • Integration of ORCiD and CRediT
  • “Home” for JATS XML documents
  • Invitations tools and GDPR reworking
  • Editorial board management
  • Multilingual metadata improvements

3.5.0 Roadmap Changes

  • 3.5.0 will be an LTS release
  • Added areas to investigate but not implement:
    • Open data
    • Continuous publication
  • Added quality-of-life improvements:
    • Optimization
    • Import / export

Webinar Recording

Other topics of interest were prioritization, VueJS in plugins, CRAFT-OA, PKP Sprints, and much more. The topic list, including the links to the chapters in the webinar recording, were as follows:

Chapters

00:00 Opening

01:26 Introduction to the team

02:14 OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.4.0

04:41 Prioritization

09:49 3.5.0 Roadmap Updates

19:53 GitHub for Public Roadmap

24:39 VueJS in Plugins

32:23 Submission Lists

39:27 Invitations, Membership, GDPR, and CRAFT-OA

46:31 PKP Sprints

49:23 Developer Environments

51:39 Thanks and Questions

Access the recording on YouTube.

Access Software Releases

PKP released Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Monograph Press (OMP), and Open Preprint Systems (OPS) version 3.4 earlier this year. The 3.4.0-3 updates were released on August 28th, and the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) versions of 3.3.0-15 were released on June 29, 2023, which will be supported until January 1, 2025. 

Learn about OJS releases

Learn about OMP releases

Learn about OPS releases

Thanks and Staying Informed

The PKP Development Team shares warm appreciation for the community involved in the research and development of this software, as this is truly software for scholars, by scholars. 

To stay informed, please consider signing up for the PKP DEV newsletter and subscribing to PKP’s YouTube channel for development news playlist updates as they happen.

For those who wish to offer comments or feedback on any of this development news, please contact PKP.