In this segment of Archipelago, explore the recap of events since September 2025.
Events in Latin America
In September and October 2025, PKP participated in two events in Ecuador. First, PKP’s Publication Support Specialist Pedro López Casique participated in a hands-on workshop on the role of metadata in scholarly publishing. Together with Crossref, Pedro explored how standardized metadata improves discovery and visibility. The session covered OJS plugins for DOI, ORCID, ROR, funding, and citation data. He also shared updates from OJS 3.5 and provided editorial support for journals and presses.
Later, PKP’s Communications Coordinator, Alejandra Casas Niño de Rivera, presented at the 3° Encuentro RERCIEE, talking about the latest improvements in OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.5, what’s coming for 3.6.x, updates on the ORE project, and how all these new features and enhancements can be implemented in journals to improve their daily processes and practices.
DataCite webinar- Configuring and Optimizing DOIs with DataCite in Open Journal Systems
October 1st
PKP’s Open Scholarly Infrastructure Advisor, Mike Nason, presented the webinar “Configuring and Optimizing DOIs with DataCite in Open Journal Systems”, hosted and organized by DataCite. The webinar covered how to optimize metadata for discoverability and make the most of using the DOI plugin and DataCite DOIs in OJS.
Canadian Conference on Open Science and Open Scholarship
October 9-10, Montreal, Canada
The talk delivered by Coalition Publica Senior Coordinator Jeanette Hatherill was a call to reclaim ownership of scholarly publishing from commercial interests and to harness public and open infrastructures. Painting a portrait of the Canadian journal landscape, Hatherill advocated for diamond open access as the most equitable path forward and highlighted Coalition Publica’s work in that regard. With mechanisms like Érudit’s Partnership for Open Access, which provides financial support to over 200 diamond open access journals, and national policy shifts, this model is a realistic option for Canadian scholarly journals.
At the same event, PKP’s Community Education Manager, Kate Shuttleworth, presented on the crisis in scholarly publishing and the promise of diamond open access. The talk highlighted how OJS enables a global, scholar-led alternative to commercial models. Using data from OJS journals, we showed why researchers’ publishing choices matter. Kate also shared a PKP one-pager at the SFU Core Facilities Showcase.
Shaping the Future of Open Publishing – Introduction to New PKP + SFU Courses
October 30th
On October 30th, PKP and SFU held a 90-minute webinar about the collection of three online courses developed in collaboration with the Master of Publishing (MPub) program at Simon Fraser University (SFU) as part of SFU’s new scholarly communications stream – designed to help students and practitioners navigate this rapidly changing landscape with confidence. During this session, all three course instructors offered a behind-the-scenes look at what students will learn in each course.
