You are invited to join PKP for a free online webinar on February 27, 2024 at 9 am PT to learn about, and to think more maximally about PIDs and metadata in your OJS publications!
Event Description
Persistent Identifiers, commonly referred to as PIDs, play a pivotal role in fostering trust within scholarly publications while concurrently enhancing publication discoverability and accessibility. Join this session to learn about the multifaceted value of PIDs at different levels, including: authors, articles, and journals. The second part of this webinar will explore practical skills around PIDs, plugins, integrations, and interoperability for Open Journal Systems (OJS) users. Join this webinar and learn to think more maximally about metadata in your OJS publications!
Intended audience(s)
Researchers, librarians, editors, journal managers, publishers
Audience Learning Outcomes
1. Understand the significance and value of PIDs
2. Learn about PID integrations and interoperability with OJS
Presenter & Bio
Mike Nason is the Open Scholarship and Publishing Librarian at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is also the Metadata and Crossref Liaison with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and a PKP Publishing Services team member.
At UNB, Mike has been involved in the hosting and production of journals within OJS and XML typesetting and technical work since 2006 at the Centre for Digital Scholarship within UNB Libraries. He is involved in digital publishing projects, including conference proceeding collections (OCS and OJS), monographs (OMP), research data (Dataverse), and manages UNB Scholar, UNB’s Institutional Repository (DSpace).
He currently serves on the Coalition Publica technical committee and was the chair of their metadata working group, a two-year project to establish better metadata practices for the Coalition Publica membership and broader OJS community.
He served on the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ (CARL) Open Repositories Working Group, was the current chair of the ORCID-CA governing committee as part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) consortia, co-chair of the National Information Standards Organization’s (NISO) Journal Article Version Working Group, and is involved in co-development projects between PKP and Crossref.
Registration: please register for free using the PKP EventBrite page. Registrants will receive the meeting details, including the webinar joining information, three times before the event (2 days before, and 2 hours before, and 10 minutes before). This event will be recorded.
