In this segment of Archipelago, explore the recap of events since August 2025. From the IFLA Congress in Kazakhstan to the latest OASPA conference and more, there is a lot to be excited about.
IFLA World Library and Information Congress
August 18-22, Astana, Kazakhstan
PKP’s Scholarly Publishing Advisor, Mariya Maistrovskaya, joined the 89th IFLA Congress with her presentation “It Takes a Village: How Library Contributions to Open Infrastructure Shape Global Open Science” highlighting how library-led contributions to open platforms and collaborative support structures are helping grow a sustainable, scalable, and interoperative scholarly landscape.
“This was my first time at IFLA WLIC and I was blown away by the diversity of countries, libraries, and perspectives that the conference brought together. I have had so many conversations with folks I would have never met otherwise. And despite this not being a publishing-specific conference, I was amazed to discover that PKP was well known and recognized among the attendees I spoke with. I was happy to have been a part of the discussions about open infrastructure, open science, scholarly communications, and publishing.” Mariya Maistrovskaya, PKP, Scholarly Publishing Advisor
Keep an eye on their repository, full slides and write-up coming up soon.
PKP Development News Webinar
Monday, September 15
Hosted quarterly throughout the year, these events feature experts from the PKP Development Team and offer insights into features and enhancements that are currently in development for OJS, OMP, and OPS. These events are of interest to Strategic Partners, Development Partners, Financial Contributors, and Community Contributors, as well as the wider community.
CERN Open Science Fair
September 15-17, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Scientific Director, Juan Pablo Alperin participated in the panel “Open Research Europe: A Catalyst towards Equitable Publishing”, where the panelists dialogued about the po tengial of the ORE platform along with the roles, motivations, perspectives and expectations of organisations that participate in this initiative, and explored the advancement of equitable publishing in Europe by focusing on the example of Open Research Europe (ORE).
Watch the recording here.
NISO Plus 2025
September 16-17
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) held its annual conference, which welcomed the presentation “Developing a New Community Standard: PKP’s Publication Facts Label” by PKP founder John Willinsky, Jane Taylor, Hannah Hechner Swain, and Alice Meadows. The presentation examined the challenges and opportunities for the Publishing Facts Label (PFL), which aims to provide standardized information on key elements of journal articles within the context of the journal in which they’re published and the broader group of journals utilizing the label, to become accepted as an industry standard.
OASPA Annual Conference
September 22-24, Belgium
The panel “Scaling inclusive open access Models” at the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association’s 2025 conference included Juan Pablo Alperin, PKP’s Scientific Director, in a thought-provoking dialogue about models, partnership opportunities, and different ways to sustain more inclusive models for open access
