What we achieved together in 2025: PKP’s Annual Report is here
PKP is proud to share its annual report for 2025, covering the period from April 1st, 2025 to March 31st, 2026.
As we reflect on the past year, the 2025 Annual Report offers an opportunity to recognize the strength and dedication of the global community that continues to drive PKP forward. From expanding collaborations to advancing strategic priorities, this year marked meaningful progress on multiple fronts. The report also highlights important developments in PKP software, ongoing research initiatives, and community-informed improvements that continue to support more equitable, accessible, and sustainable open publishing worldwide.
What’s Inside
The report tells a story centered around our strategic priorities:
- Building a diamond open access future
- Championing open source citizenship
- Driving continuous improvement with mindful innovation
- Strengthening organizational culture
Inside you will find:
- Over 58,000 journals now use OJS, up from 52,000 last year — used in 157 countries, in 60+ languages, with more than 11.5M articles published
- Celebrating Kevin Stranack’s trailblazing tenure and welcoming Teresa Lee as new Managing Director
- Founder John Willinsky embraces communities as key in his appointment as Member of the Order of Canada
- Community-led governance and transitions in the Members Committee
- Open Research Europe, ALMASI, Coalition Publica and Crossref
- Global contributors, the PKP Community Forum, documentation, multilingual support, education, events and outreach
- OJS 3.5 and 3.6, OMP, PKP Publishing Services and the Technical Committee
- Research foundations, work on metadata, indexing, preprints, and open peer review
- A journal integrity initiative — the Publication Facts Label
- Financial summary and revenue sources
Get the report and Join our Annual General Meeting
The full report is available now as a downloadable PDF:
We invite you to read it, share it, and see how your engagement with PKP contributes to something much larger: a stronger, more inclusive ecosystem for scholarly publishing worldwide. You are part of the Public Knowledge Project!
Please join us to celebrate at our upcoming Annual General Meeting on May 27th 🎉
Thank You!
This report was made possible thanks to the contributions of many folks:
Juan Pablo Alperin, Alejandra Casas Niño de Rivera, Trevor Davis, Michael Felczak, Roger Gillis, Jeanette Hatherill, Mark Huskisson, Emily Hopkins, Teresa Lee, Patricia Mangahis, Urooj Nizami, Famira Racy, Stephanie Savage, Alec Smecher, Marco Tullney, Emma Uhl, Zoe Wake Hyde and John Willinsky.
Special thanks to Alexandre Cunha for the thoughtful design and layout that brings this year’s story to life.
And of course, the broader community whose support, whether through voluntary work, financial contributions, or simply using our software, makes all of this possible.