PKP and Crossref Present: OJS 3.5 Features and Upgrading Webinar Series

Feature image, mostly decorational. There is some text of importance that reads calling all editors, librarians and system administrators using OJS. PKP and Crossref have partnered to bring you a webinar series for using OJS 3.5.

PKP in collaboration with Crossref invites you to the OJS 3.5 Features and Upgrading Webinar Series with events in English, Spanish, French, and Indonesian, starting June 2026 through 2027.

PKP and Crossref are partners in bringing you an improved OJS experience and better support for metadata registration workflows, along with community upgrading resources to help meet these objectives, and more.

Thousands of Crossref members use OJS to register their metadata. OJS upgrading is a key part of how journals maintain interoperability (check this blog post for interoperability tips) with the broader scholarly communications and publishing ecosystems, including supporting better metadata and improving global reach and discoverability, as well as meeting growing expectations around usability, institutional reporting, quality, and trust.

Further, OJS 3.5 will be designated as a Long-Term Support (LTS) release this Summer. The last LTS release, OJS 3.3, will stop being supported 1 year after 3.5 LTS is released. Using unsupported versions means security risks! If you would like to know more about releases, including whether to chose LTS or Short-Term Support (STS), check out the new OJS Releases explainer.

Therefore, PKP and Crossref are pleased to bring you these free OJS 3.5 upgrading webinars — one for librarians, editors and journal managers, and one for system administrators.

In case you don’t know, when we refer to OJS upgrades, we are also referring to Open Monograph Press (OMP), and Open Preprint Systems (OPS), as PKP’s software suite shares the same code base.

A huge thank you to Crossref for support and collaboration on these upgrading initiatives!

Past Events

June 3 2026, 8 – 9 AM PDT (UTC-7): PKP and Crossref present – Introducing OJS 3.5: Key features and user enhancements

Attend this webinar to learn about key features and enhancements in OJS 3.5, including:

Streamlined submission tracking with a redesigned editorial dashboard
Automatic compilation of the editorial team, published on the journal website
Increased user privacy and control via a new user invitation process
Metadata improvements, such as enhanced ORCID, ROR, and DOI integrations

This webinar is recommended for editors and journal managers who want to understand how upgrading to 3.5 will affect their journals and workflows.

Missed the event? Check it out on YouTube, including a handy collection of resources in the YouTube description!

Registration is closed

June 17, 2026, 8 – 9:30 AM PDT (UTC-7): PKP and Crossref present – How to upgrade to OJS 3.5: For Systems Administrators

Calling on Systems Administrators running Open Journal Systems. It’s almost time to upgrade to the latest Long Term Support version – OJS 3.5 – to take advantage of the latest features, performance improvements, and critical security updates!

Join us for a detailed walkthrough of the technical upgrade process, receive a checklist of requirements to ensure a smooth transition, and take advantage of the opportunity to ask questions and get expert guidance.

Missed the event? Check it out on YouTube, including the handy list of resources in the YouTube description!

Registration is closed

Future Events

These webinars are also going to be offered in Indonesian, Spanish, and French. The dates are to be announced. PKP will update this post as details become available.

Fall 2026 – both of the past webinars will be offered in Indonesian.
Throughout 2027 – both of the past webinars will be offered in Spanish and French.

Stay Informed

PKP will also share updates about these events, including outputs on PKP social media channels, and in its community newsletter, Archipelago.

By the way check out Archipelago’s recent issue 11 loaded with info for OJS communities, like more upgrading resources, accessibility work, and more.

Crossref is also sharing these events and more on their Events page, and their social media, @Crossref on BlueSky, Mastodon, and LinkedIn.

All of these events in all languages will be recorded and shared on PKP’s YouTube channel, as well as with event registrants. Please consider subscribing, and click the notification bell to get instantly notified when new uploads arrive.