The current series of legal kerfuffles in scholarly publishing involves property and access rights in an industry that is, for all intents and purposes, moving toward universal open access. Letās begin with recent moves by Elsevier, the largest of scholarly publishing corporations with over 2,000 journals, and the American Chemical Society, among the richest of […]
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Public Knowledge Project Receives Arnold Grant
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is pleased to announce that it has received a six-month planning grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. Ā Project web site:Ā http://advancing-pkp.org/ This funding will enable PKP to commence a comprehensive review of its open source publishing software and related services to ensure they continue to address the evolving […]
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German OJS 3 Workshop Report
FromĀ the 5th to 6th of October, Ā Heidelberg University Library conducted an OJS 3 workshop for developers and technical experts in German-speaking countries. The workshop was organized under the umbrella of theĀ OJS-de.net project, a multi-university, journal publication facilitation and assisting project for German universities, granted by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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Better submission discovery and tracking for editors in OJS 3.1
OJS version 3.1 introduces improvements to the submissions list to help editors and journal managers quickly find and track submissions. These changes allow you to filter submissions by stage, status or section, and quickly search for a submission by title, author name or submission ID. The video below provides a quick introduction to some of […]
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OJS 3.1.0 Released
The Public Knowledge Project is pleased to announce the release of OJS 3.1.0. This release includes several major new pieces of functionality: A REST API Subscription and APC support Section editor recommendations Rich submission lists Customizable menus Finnish and Swedish translations, and numerous translation improvements/updates And more.
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PKP 2017 Sprint Report: New User Mediation
Three Sprint participants (Clinton, Rahul, and Svantje) worked on a new user mediation (or new user approval system) for OJS. Objectives In OJS 2.4.8 and OJS 3.0.1, user registration is either all-or-nothing: journal managers decide whether users can self-register, or when the journal manager must register all users.Ā A recurring request has been to allow […]
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PKP 2017 Sprint Report: Open Typesetting Stack
During the Fall 2017 PKP Sprint event in Montreal, one of the groups decided to focus on improving the current user experience of the Open Typesetting Stack, the OJS3 Open Typesetting Stack plugin, and the Texture WYSIWYG editor used by the Open Typesetting Stack.
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PKP 2017 Sprint Report: Documentation Update and Architecture
At the 2017 PKP Sprint, the Documentation Update and Architecture group worked on a prospectiveĀ Roadmap for Updating PKP Documentation, aiming to solve broader issues related to the organisation, redundancy, and hosting of distributed documentation across all PKP software. Starting with a focus on the way documentation is presented onĀ https://pkp.sfu.caĀ and also theĀ PKP Wiki, the group made […]
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PKP 2017 Sprint Report: Upgrading OJS XML Import/Export
Special thanks to this groupās participants: Mark Jordan and Dimitris Efstathiou During the PKP 2017 Conference Sprint Sessions, one of the tasks we decided to work on was the development of a process which, given a natively exported OJS 2.x XML file, the OJS 3.x natively exported XML file is being created.
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PKP 2017 Sprint Report: Internal Statistics
During the 2017 PKP Conference Sprint, our group was responsible to propose enhancements and improvements to the internal workflow statistics of OJS. Our group included Juan Pablo Alperin, Alex MendonƧa, Israel Cefrin, Joelle Hatem and had collaborations from Alice Meadows and Ina Smith.
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