PKP is pleased to partner with 19 other key partners of the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access hosted by the University of Cape Town, South Africa, December 8 – 14, 2024. PKP demonstrates its support of diamond open access principles, and will also contribute to workshops on open journal and monograph publishing during the event.
The 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access is proudly hosted by the University of Cape Town Libraries in 2024. The theme of the Summit is: “Centering social justice in scholarly communication to advance research as a public good.”
The purpose of the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access is to bring the diamond open access community and potential communities together in a dialogue between journal editors, organisations, experts, and stakeholders from around the globe.
The envisaged outcome of this dialogue is the consolidation and growth of diamond open access as a pathway for inclusive and equitable participation in the scholarly publishing ecosystem. The premise is that discoverable and accessible scholarly content is critical for the growth of research with the domino effect of making such research accessible to ALL; hence, the alignment with public good principles.
PKP Enables Diamond Open Access
In line with the Summit’s theme of centering social justice in scholarly communication to advance research as a public good, PKP has supported independent and scholar-led diamond open access publishing for more than 25 years by providing free and open-source (FOSS), multilingual publishing software.
PKP reduces the financial and technical challenges of scholarly publishing, making it easier for journals to adopt diamond open access. To increase bibliodiversity and global reach, OJS has been translated into 70 languages. Journals themselves are publishing with OJS in more than 60 languages.
With 60% of sampled journals using OJS to publish diamond open access, PKP has been instrumental in making diamond open access journals a reality:
- No other platform or tool, with the exception of email in some contexts, is as widely used as OJS by OA diamond journals for their operations, especially as they grow in size.
- No other system has contributed as much to supporting the linguistic or geographic diversity of scholarly publishing as OJS.
- As OA diamond journals are APC-free, they can be trusted not to include the so-called predatory journals.
– Quoted from Willinsky and Alperin (2021), PKP Enables Diamond Open Access
Indeed, diamond open access is in PKP’s DNA, as outlined in its consideration of a federated model of diamond OA.
The Diamond Open Access Summits have emerged as the primary gathering space for a global community to explore ways to collectively advance more equitable forms of publishing. Publishing platforms are key players in this community, and PKP is participating in the Summit to ensure we learn how we can continue to serve the tens of thousands of journals that rely on our software to deliver OA without fees for authors or readers.
– Juan Pablo Alperin, PKP Scientific Director
PKP to Contribute to Open Publishing Workshops
Also in-line with social justice principles of diamond open access such as capacity building, empowerment, collaboration, and solidarity, PKP will join several organizations at the Summit to offer insights and tools for open publishing. These workshop descriptions come from the Summit website.
Workshop 1: Open Publishing, hosted by PKP and Redalyc
9 – 10 December 2024
This hands-on two-day workshop is designed for academic libraries and research institutes who want to leverage Open Journal Systems (OJS) for their journal publishing.
Learn how to use OJS and optimize your editorial workflow with XML based technologies to publish efficient and sustainable diamond open access journals.
Experts from the Public Knowledge Project (developers of OJS), Redalyc (developers of Marcalyc), and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) will offer guidance to help you increase your journals’ visibility and discoverability.
Workshop topics include:
- How to set-up and manage an OJS journal.
- Use of OJS plugins to streamline your publishing.
- Strategies to boost your journals’ credibility and visibility.
- How to get your journal indexed in the DOAJ.
- How to integrate XML publishing in OJS using Marcalyc AI-aided XML JATS tagging and automatic generation of PDF, ePUB, and HTML5.
- Updates and important information on OJS developments and community collaborations in support of diamond open access.
Workshop 2: Open Monograph Publishing, hosted by COPIM Project and Association of African Universities
Towards Sustainable Open Access Book Publishing in the Global South Context
This 2-day workshop explores strategies and mechanisms to move towards sustainable open access book publishing ecosystems in Global South contexts. The event brings together librarians, publishers and those developing open research strategies to collaboratively work towards new ways of supporting longform (book) Diamond open access publishing.
Plenary sessions will explore routes for securing bibliodiverse, equitable publishing futures, alongside case studies from librarians highlighting innovative local approaches, and from publishers highlighting new and experimental publishing practices. Parallel sessions will provide opportunities for hands-on skills building and collaboration.
Those in libraries and other university roles will explore both the latest developments in open research policymaking and opportunities to map and bring together Global South open research initiatives.
Those involved in publishing will learn about new ways of distributing and archiving open access books and managing book metadata, as well as how to more easily manage the publishing workflow.
The workshop is jointly hosted by the Association of African Universities and the Copim Open Book Futures project, with additional contributions from the Directory of Open Access Books / OAPEN, the Open Book Collective, the Public Knowledge Project, Redalyc, Thoth Open Metadata, and the University of Cape Town Libraries and Press.
Connect
PKP’s Kate Shuttleworth, Community Engagement and Outreach Librarian, and Kevin Stranack, Operations Director, will be on-site for the workshops. Juan Pablo Alperin, Scientific Director, and Mark Huskisson, Strategic Business Development Advisor, will also be at the Summit. If you’d like to connect about the Open Publishing Workshop or get in contact with our team, please email Kate at kshuttle@sfu.ca.
Register to attend the virtual components of the Summit.
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