This post features the 2025 PKP AGM recap and recording from June 17th. With a range of exciting speakers and topics, it was quite an engaging event!
Learn about exciting developments over the past year including Strategic Plan updates, financial highlights, Advisory Committee update, PKP as a research-driven initiative, impact in Indonesia, what’s next for Open Monograph Press (OMP), and Open Research Europe (ORE) developments.
This AGM is intended for
- PKP contributors and community members
- Software development partners and technical specialists
- In-kind contributors
- Editors, reviewers, and journal managers
- Scholarly societies and associations
- Librarians and libraries (including digital initiative teams)
- Researchers, authors, and institutional leaders
- Anyone curious about open access models, especially diamond open access
Speakers
- Kevin Stranack, Director of Operations
- Marco Tullney, Advisory Committee Chair; TIB Head of Publishing Services
- Juan Pablo Alperin, Scientific Director
- Maria Lamury, Former PKP Local Liaison in Indonesia
- Zoe Wake Hyde, OMP Coordinator
- Magnus Lu, Project Manager
AGM Recording and Chapters
Access the recording on YouTube to follow along with transcripts.
Chapters
- 01:59 Opening
- 3:00 Agenda
- 4:04 Annual Report Released
- 4:43 Strategic Plan updates (* correction, last strat plan was in 2017)
- 6:46 Financial Highlights
- 9:21 Advisory Committee Update (e.g., open access developments, PKP’s role)
- 14:28 PKP as a Research-Driven Initiative
- 21:06 Impact in Indonesia (world’s largest OJS user base)
- 28:29 What’s next for Open Monograph Press (OMP)
- 37:31 Open Research Europe (ORE) Developments
- 44:09 Thanks and Questions
Thank You
PKP extends a heart-felt thank you to everyone who has been a part of PKP’s success story, including supporters, testers, coders, developers, translators, sprinters, really everyone on the team and in our communities! There is no PKP without you, and you are the cornerstone of making knowledge public.
Additional Resources
These resources were shared in the chat during the AGM to accompany the speakers’ presentations.
📌 PKP Annual Report (including Coalition Publica highlights): https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/06/16/annual-report-2024-release/
📌 PKP Advisory Committee: https://pkp.sfu.ca/about/governance/advisory/
📌 PKP enables diamond open access: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2024/12/06/pkp-to-join-the-2nd-global-summit-on-diamond-open-access/
📌 Access previous ORE webinar: https://youtu.be/YBwJRgwz4sc?feature=shared
📌 PKP Research: https://pkp.sfu.ca/research/
📌 ScholCommLab: https://www.scholcommlab.ca/publications/
📌 55,000+ journals are using OJS: https://rpubs.com/saurabh90/ojs-stats-2024
📌 Beacon data: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OCZNVY&version=4.0
📌 OJS workshops make waves in Indonesia: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/03/05/ojs-workshops-indonesia/
📌 Accessibility, language, discipline, and indexing status of university journals that use Open Journal Systems in Indonesia: a case study: https://www.escienceediting.org/journal/view.php?number=373
Some OMP news and past events:
📌 Sign up for OMP community calls: https://airtable.com/appDTVyaIiYboTccf/pagxrhATIt0CCR2T6/form
📌 Past OMP Town Hall centers community: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/02/27/open-monograph-press-omp-town-hall-registration/
📌 OMP under review: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/03/05/omp-review/
📌 Advancing open publishing for ORE webinar from January: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/01/28/advancing-open-publishing-for-open-research-europe-webinar-outputs/
From questions and answers:
📌 PKP Preservation Network: https://youtu.be/z0gOwU5c9zM?si=zuwK0SKphKuG6Uwr
📌 Dataverse plugin: https://github.com/lepidus/dataversePlugin
📌 Entire plugin gallery: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/plugin-inventory/en/
📌 Example of integration between OMP and OJS: https://publicacoesup.petrobras.com.br/peld
Stay Informed
📌 PKP News Blog: https://pkp.sfu.ca/news/
📌 PKP social media and subscribe to PKP Community Newsletter “Archipelago”: https://pkp.sfu.ca/communications/
📌 What’s new in 3.5 video resources (more to come): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg358gdRUrDWX-zHYtALV_ARXKl-Zo-yZ&si=eNu8npHqSRvxjX_Z
📌 All PKP Development News Update webinars: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg358gdRUrDVfN0TMd4xa1edRBsIa8j6H&si=4PUYOFbD0nsHh42N
📌 Ask more questions, contribute your expertise, give your feedback, and stay informed: PKP Community Forum: https://forum.pkp.sfu.ca/
Interested in contributing?
You can contribute code, translation, documentation, respond to user inquiries on the PKP Community Forum, attend a sprint, raise the profile of PKP locally, participate in usability testing, or join an interest group.
📌 Get involved: https://pkp.sfu.ca/community/get-involved/
