For the past couple of years, PKP has been organizing a developer sprint, typically in the Spring and late Summer / early Fall. Although technically-focused, non-technical participants are always welcome and make important contributions to the practicality and usability of the technical work. This week we completed our first sprint at the Université de Montréal, […]
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Substance Consortium
Last year, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CoKo) partnered to support an open source ecosystem for knowledge creation and dissemination. Today, we are proud to announce that, in conjunction with Consortium Érudit, we are taking another concrete step towards this common goal. Our three organizations have identified Substance, a JavaScript […]
read more →Invitation to Participate: OA Publishing Co-operative Study
Calling all library administrators, collections, and scholarly communications librarians! The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Co-operative Study needs your input on a new model for scholarly publishing! Subscriptions no longer make sense. Article processing charges are not for everyone. What about a different approach? What about building on the growing cooperation in scholarly publishing? Help us […]
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The XML Markup Evaluation Corpus
PKP is pleased to announce the release of our automated XML markup evaluation corpus. This corpus is a major component of PKP’s Smarter Scholarly Texts for Cross-Platform Publishing, Text-mining and Indexing project. When we began development of our new automated XML markup pipeline (http://github.com/pkp/xmlps) several years ago, we realized there was no easy way for […]
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The Belief that Knowledge Should be a Human Right
As part of Simon Fraser University’s 50th anniversary, SFU Research is highlighting some important projects, including PKP. You can read more below, including a brief history and an interview with Brian Owen, PKP’s Managing Director and Associate University Librarian at SFU. The Public Knowledge Project was borne from the belief that knowledge access should be […]
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OMP 1.2 Released
We’re very pleased to announce the release of Open Monograph Press version 1.2. This is a major milestone for PKP, as OMP 1.2 includes enhancements that have come out of 2 years of usability consultations, testing, and review. Highlights include: Separation of administrative interface and reader user interfaces. This facilitates layout customizations that are applied […]
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The PKP Index is in Production!
We are pleased to announce the full production launch of the PKP Index: http://index.pkp.sfu.ca/ The PKP index has been in beta mode since October and during the past few months we have been selectively adding content to ensure everything was working properly. During that time, the index has grown rapidly and already contains over 60,000 […]
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PKP Sprint Deadline Approaching
There is still time to register for the PKP Sprint in Montreal, on April 25 and 26. Co-hosted by PKP and Érudit, the sprint will take place at the University of Montreal in room C-3061, on the 3rd floor of the Lionel-Groulx building (3150, rue Jean-Brillant, Montréal): http://bit.ly/1dl9HRq We’ll be starting at 9am on April […]
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PKP Announces University of Alberta Libraries as Major Development Partner
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is pleased to announce that the University of Alberta Libraries (UAL) have entered into a major development partnership with PKP, furthering a commitment to the development of scholarly communication software. As a result of this agreement, UAL will provide significant financial and in-kind support to assist with PKP’s ongoing development […]
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Sci-Hub: research piracy and the public good
By John Willinsky It looks like the scholarly publishing community has been hit by its own version of Napster. Over the past year, some 47 million research articles have been made freely available through a site called Sci-Hub. The publishing giant Elsevier, aghast at finding many of its articles being given away, wasted little time […]
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