After months of community consultations, analysis of input from the Community Forum and Beacon data, collaboration across every PKP team, and drawing on deep expertise in book publishing, PKP’s OMP Coordinator, Zoe Wake Hyde, has released her Final Report.
In OMP Under the Spotlight, Zoe explores the central question:
“How does, can, and should PKP contribute to a thriving open book publishing ecosystem?”
The report lays out a clear vision for OMP’s future. One that responds to the diverse needs of our growing user community, whether they are publishing scholarly books, theses, dissertations, reports, creative works, or running institutional publishing programs, library presses, open educational resources, or independent projects.
Zoe’s vision highlights:
- Integration with scholarly publishing infrastructures to ensure alignment with good practices and broad discoverability
- Leverage of PKP’s position and reputation in the open community
- Leadership as stewards of critical open infrastructure
- Experience working closely with open source contributors
- Revenue generation through hosted clients, sponsored development funding, and grants
- Position as a site for research into & education around open scholarly publishing
From this foundation, Zoe develops a roadmap to bring OMP to closer parity with OJS, addressing user needs through innovations in chapter handling, publication types, accessibility, theming, press settings, and terminology.
For full details, we encourage you to read the complete report.
