Originally posted on the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation blog. Where once, a half-century ago, peace, love and non-medicinal weed filled the air of the Bay Area, the groove today is all about collaboration, cooperation, and open sourcing. From Google to Tesla, IBM to Microsoft, Stanford to Berkeley, the bit-rate of open source vibes is increasing, amid […]
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A fresh look for OMP 1.2 and OJS 3.0
When we redesigned the OJS 3.0 backend in time for the beta release, we had to rush out a frontend. We’ve now had a chance to revisit the reader interface, think about the wide variety of use-cases we need to support, and put together something we’re pretty happy with. In this post I’ll give you […]
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Tackling accessibility in OJS 3.0 beta
We’ve worked hard to address accessibility concerns in the new OJS 3.0 beta. When we overhauled the design, we were able to address a number of basic issues. In this post, I’ll detail some of the things we did to solve existing problems and some of the problems we plan to tackle going forward.
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Checking in on the PKP XML Parsing Service
You may not know that PKP has a pretty storied history with automated article parsing. Many, many years ago (circa 2008), we had a project called Lemon8-XML which worked as a complementary application to OJS. With Lemon8, journal editors could upload a Word (or Word-compatible) document into a web interface which would attempt to parse […]
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Introducing the PKP Index
The PKP Index is a new database of articles, books, and conference proceedings that have been published using PKP’s free, open source Open Journal Systems, Open Monograph Press, and Open Conference Systems software applications. We have developed this service because new journals find it difficult to be included in major indexing services, often having to […]
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Meet the Team: James MacGregor
Meet the Team is a new series of blog posts introducing different members of the PKP team. First up is James MacGregor. James is Publishing Services Coordinator at PKP, and ensures that PKP’s hosting, external support, consulting, and sponsored development initiatives run smoothly. PKP Publishing Services provides a significant portion of the overall PKP budget, […]
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Transitioning the PKP PLN from Pilot to Launch
For the past year, the PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) has been in a pilot phase, with the University of Victoria, University of Pittsburgh, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, Indiana University, and Simon Fraser University testing various aspects of the Network, ranging from the new OJS plugin to the terms of use that […]
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Collaborative Knowledge Foundation and PKP Announce Strategic Relationship
PKP is pleased to announce the commencement of a strategic relationship with the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation. The CKF’s mission is to evolve how scholarship is created, produced and reported. CKF is building open source solutions in scholarly knowledge production that foster collaboration, integrity and speed. They are also interested in developing new models of research […]
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Hypothes.is and PKP Announce Strategic Relationship
PKP is pleased to announce its support for the Hypothes.is initiative to bring a pervasive implementation of web-based annotation support across scholarship, based on open technologies and an open web protocol. They have invited a wide range of participants from the scholarly publishing sector to support their initiative and this is a very natural commitment […]
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WEBCAST – OA Week 2015: Is it time for Canada to implement a unified open strategy for higher education?
UPDATE: This event will be webcast: http://www.sfu.ca/webcast/index.html PKP and the SFU Library are pleased to be co-sponsoring an event to mark Open Access Week 2015. Is it Time for Canada to Implement A Unified Open Strategy for Higher Education? includes a keynote address from PKP Director Dr. John Willinsky and a panel discussion with Dr. […]
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