Is your journal free of charge to both readers and authors? Does it follow the “diamond model?” If yes, OPERAS needs your help!
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2019 PKP Annual Report Released
We are pleased to present our 2019 annual report to the community. This year, we look back at our top stories from the 2019-2020 fiscal year while exploring what being open means to this project: open access, open source, open infrastructure. We also reflect on how our dedicated community has made, and keeps us, open.
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The Moral Rights of Researchers as Authors
I am working this year on developing a copyright amendment that is intended to do a much better job of supporting open access to research than the current law. This work is catching something of the tailwind filling the sails of open science, brought on by tragic, disruptive turns of the global pandemic. The rising […]
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Toward a Post-Covid World of Open Access
The global scale of the current pandemic has led to what feels like a remarkably unprecedented level of solidarity in a world pulling together (while standing apart) amid this common cause of fighting the spread of Covid-19. In the area in which I work (from home) of scholarly communication, publishers have been not only creating […]
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DIG Report – Spring 2020
Over the past few months, PKP’s Documentation Interest Group (DIG) has been largely focused on two key areas: updates to documentation for Open Journal Systems (OJS) 3.2 and translation workflows. Our thanks to documentation sprinters and contributors for their ongoing work and support.
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You are invited! PKP 2020 AGM
The Public Knowledge Project’s (PKP) 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held Friday, July 24, 2020 from 12:00PM-1:00PM PDT. This is a free, online event open to everyone.
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OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.2.1 Release
It’s time to upgrade! PKP is pleased to announce the release of OJS, OMP, and OPS 3.2.1. With this release, Open Preprint Systems (OPS) is officially out of beta, joining Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Open Monograph Press (OMP) in our regular release and support cycle.
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OJS in the Online Classroom: Engaging Students with Course Journals
As post-secondary instructors adapt to providing online instruction for the foreseeable future, many are looking for new ways to engage with students in an online environment. Course journal projects, using Open Journal Systems (OJS), can offer one such opportunity.
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Is Your Journal Accessible? Working With Community to Make OJS Open for All
In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), PKP’s newly formed Accessibility Interest Group shares an update on what PKP is doing to improve the accessibility of Open Journal Systems – and what authors, editors and publishers need to know to do their part as well.
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World Book and Copyright Day
As one who built a life around books (with them around me), this is my day. April 23rd. World Book and Copyright Day. And here, for this day, let me offer a paean to the learned book. The scholarly monograph, with footnotes burbling along the bottom of every page, or piled up for a hundred pages […]
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