UPDATE June 1 2021: The deadline for applications has passed, and applications are no longer accepted. PKP is currently seeking a talented, full-time Communications Manager to help with PKP’s wide-ranging communications efforts. This position will be responsible for ensuring a unified communications approach across PKP’s leadership and operations teams, and will also participate actively on […]
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GDPR Guidebook for PKP Users
PKP is happy to release a new guide, GDPR Guidebook for PKP Users. This guide provides advice for users of PKP applications on how to approach the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect on May 25, 2018. It provides guidance on how to best configure OJS to be GDPR-compliant, and includes […]
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Regarding Recent OJS “Defacement” Attacks
Since about March 29, 2017 some reports of widespread “hacking”, or defacement of OJS sites has been causing some concern. The “hacking” has involved pointing to an image that has been uploaded to the affected sites, the presence of which supposedly indicates successful defacement. This isn’t a hack or a defacement, though it has been reported as such […]
read more →PKP Sprint 2016: Article-Level Metrics
The Article Level Metrics group at the 2016 PKP Sprint in Montreal aimed to provide a visualisation of the OMP usage statistics for the readers. We were a group of mostly remote participants, PKP team members and people from other institutions, working together using GitHub, Google Docs, Google Hangout and Skype. Bruno Beghelli, PKP Bozana […]
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OMP 1.1 Released
The Public Knowledge Project team is pleased to announce the release of Open Monograph Press (OMP) 1.1. OMP is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes, and scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication. OMP will operate, as well, as a press […]
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